Our research addresses social issues including prejudice, diversity, immigration, employment discrimination law, terrorism, the income gap between the rich and poor, and other salient political events (e.g., Hurricane Katrina and Obama's election).
The main focus of our research however, is prejudice and discrimination, particularly from the perspective of members of socially devalued, or stigmatized, groups. Specifically, the lab group investigates personal and situational factors that affect whether individuals perceive prejudice-related threats, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral coping responses to prejudice, and the implications of how people cope with prejudice for well being and interpersonal relationships.
Research in the Social Identity Lab explores the interplay between social issues and theoretical insights, formed on the basis of rigorous research with a variety of methods in the laboratory. Our approach highlights how theoretically-driven social psychological science has important implications for social issues, and how real world events provide significant opportunities for advancing theory based research.
If you are an undergraduate interested in working in the Social Identity lab, please read this and then complete an application.
Research in our lab currently is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Portuguese Science Foundation.