Social Program Faculty

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Irene V. Blair

Research Interests: My research focuses on the social cognitive processes that contribute to stereotyping and prejudice. I have a particular interest in early or "automatic" processes, such as the automatic stereotypic associations that are activated when a member of a target group is encountered. Of late, I have been researching stereotyping from a facial features perspective and I have begun to apply basic stereotyping findings to the health domain.

Lab webpage: CU Stereotyping and Prejudice Lab (CUSP)

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Geoffrey Cohen

Research Interests: Much of my research examines processes related to self-evaluation and identity maintenance and their implications for social problems. These processes, we find, help to explain how and when seemingly brief social interventions produce non-intuitively large and long-lasting psychological and behavioral changes. I am interested in the intersection of social psychology and social policy, and in using experimental methods to understand how social psychological processes play out over time, how they interact with other factors in social environments, and how they contribute to the maintenance of under-performance, social conflict, and inequality.

One specific area of research addresses the effects on achievement motivation of people's group identities, with a focus on how stigmatization shapes intellectual identity and performance in the short- and long-term. A second area of research examines resistance to persuasion and intransigence in social conflict, with a focus on the processes of identity maintenance that underlie these phenomena. The guiding strategy of my laboratory is to examine the social-psychological processes involved in important social problems and phenomena and to use the acquired knowledge to develop, test, and refine interventions. Findings from field-based intervention studies typically raise new conceptual questions, which serve as a basis for further laboratory experimentation and theory development. This often leads us in new and unexpected directions. Our research entails a continual dialogue between lab and field, with the findings from one informing the questions asked in the other. Additional research projects in my lab address, among other topics, the subtle psychological processes that permit people to discriminate while maintaining a perception of personal objectivity, the processes involved in the formation and change of strong political beliefs, and the social psychological processes involved in aggression and health-risk behavior.

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Tiffany A. Ito

Research Interests: My research addresses social psychological issues using a multi-level approach that integrates social psychological and neuroscience perspectives. Topics of interest include prejudice, stereotyping, attitudes, emotion, and face perception. Recent projects have used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure affective and cognitive processes associated with person perception, including early social categorization processes and mechanisms by which prejudice and stereotype activation are detected and inhibited.

Lab webpages: CU Social Neuroscience Lab
CU Stereotyping and Prejudice Lab (CUSP)

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Charles Judd

Research Interests: Social cognition and attitudes; Structure, function, and the measurement of attitudes; Intergroup relations and stereotypes; Judgment, memory, and decision making. Methods of behavioral science research and data analysis: Experimental design and analysis; Evaluation and quasi-experimental designs and analysis; Linear structural models.

Lab webpage: CU Stereotyping and Prejudice Lab (CUSP)

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Gary McClelland

Research Interests: Judgment and decision making, statistics, and web-based interactive visualizations and aids of those topics

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Bernadette Park

Research Interests: My research interests span two primary areas, that of stereotyping and intergroup relations, and person perception. In the stereotyping domain I have examined such issues as outgroup homogeneity, stereotype accuracy, the effect of power on attention allocation, multiculturalism as a viable approach to prejudice reduction, race bias in threat detection, and the role of groups as a social resource. My work in the person perception domain makes use of the Social Relations Model to examine accuracy and consensus in person perception, and a process of building models of people (person models) in order to make sense of the social world.

Lab webpage: CU Stereotyping and Prejudice Lab (CUSP)

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Leaf Van Boven

Research Interests: Judgment, decision making and emotion

Lab webpage: Judgment Emotion Decision and Intuition (JEDI) lab

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