| Student | | | Affiliations | Research question (one per lab) |
| Rick Andrews |
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"Research question": "What kind of situations, motivations, or cognitions drive people to become more ideologically liberal? (Jost) How do personality and political ideology interact amongst members of traditionally disadvantaged groups? (Jost) What kinds of personality features might predict switching political parties during an election cycle? (Jost)" |
| Heather Barry |
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Social |
Where do fantasies about the future come from, and what motivational and affective consequences do they have (with Gabriele Oettingen)? What motivates people to engage in behavior that helps their group (with Tom Tyler)? What effect do individual goals have on social support provision in relationships (with Pat Shrout)? |
| Suzette Caleo |
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Social |
How do gender norms lead to biased perceptions of justice? (with Madeline Heilman and Tom Tyler) How do remote work arrangements affect the stereotyping of coworkers? (with Madeline Heilman) |
| Shana Cole |
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Social |
What do different affective responses after receiving praise from others tell us about the motivations people have when processing positive social feedback? (Emily Balcetis) After experiencing envy at a friend’s success, to what extent, and at what cost, will people engage in sabotage behaviors? And what are people’s motivations for doing so? What do they hope to accomplish? (Emily Balcetis) Do emotionally reactive individuals literally perceive more negativity in the facial expressions of others? (Emily Balcetis) |
| Irina Feygina | | | Social | How do experiences with different cultural and political contexts influence perceptions of procedural justice, the negotiation of multiple social identities, political engagement, and acculturation? (with Tom Tyler)
How do immigrants begin to justify the American social system and respond to associated stereotypes? (with John Jost) |
| May Ling Halim |
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Social |
Why do a good number of girls become tomboys in middle childhood, while the same change is not true for boys? (with Diane Ruble)
Does high gender identification in early childhood persist over time? How does intense gender identification in early childhood affect adjustment years later? (with Diane Ruble)
How does ethnic identity moderate the relation between perceived discrimination and health? (with David Amodio) |
| Erin Hennes |
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Social |
What cognitive and motivational factors lead us to favor the status quo?
(with John Jost). Is the tendency to self-handicap a stable trait, and how might it relate to self-determination? (with Patrick Shrout) |
| Sylviane Houssais |
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Social |
How can people turn fantasies about their future (in academic, work, personal and social domains) into reality? How can people set achievable goals and strive for them successfully? What makes people more or less committed to their goals? (with Gabriele Oettingen and Peter Gollwitzer) |
| Daniel Kirk | | | Social | What are the effects of self-regulation on creative problem-solving? (with Peter Carnevale & Peter Gollwitzer)
What role does justice play in social dilemmas? (with Tom Tyler) |
| Laura Kressel |  | | Social | How are our decisions influenced by temporal perspective? |
| Margarita Krochik |
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Social |
What basic processes of motivated cognition are involved in the adoption of an ideology, and how do such individual tendencies interact with
interpersonal contexts to shape ideological outcomes? What are the
interpersonal, intergroup, and societal consequences of ideological conflict (and consensus)? (with John Jost) Do perceptions of conflict or bias in the decision-making processes employed in various government bodies (e.g. Congress, the Supreme Court) shape how effective, important, and legitimate the public perceives these bodies to be? (with Tom Tyler) What role does psychological distance play in how political ideology is mentally represented, structured, and translated into decisions and behavior in political and non-political contexts? (with Yaacov Trope) |
| Amy Krosch |
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Social |
Why do some people act in a just manner, even when their automatic tendencies or immediate goals conflict with their beliefs and ideals? (with Tom Tyler and David Amodio) |
| Sean Lane |
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Social |
How do intimate couples come to co-regulate their moods over time, and what determines which partner has more influence in these coupled regulatory systems? (with Pat Shrout) How does being distant from our significant others, in time, space, or social status, affect our evaluations of them? (with Yaacov Trope) |
| Janet Lee |
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Social |
What are the social consequences when we project our goals onto others nonconsciously? (with Gabriele Oettingen and Peter Gollwitzer) |
| Leah Lurye | | | Social
Developmental | How does gender development relate to issues of identity, social judgments of others, and adjustment? |
| Anesu Mandisodza | | | Social | How do people perceive, interpret and respond to threatening and/or changing social systems? |
| Saaid Mendoza | |
| Social | How can explicit goal strategies help reduce implicit intergroup biases? |
| Gaëlle Pierre | | | Social | How can we increase engagement and cooperation in groups and between groups? (with Peter Carnevale, Tom Tyler, Elke Weber)
Why are women penalized for success in male domains? (with Madeline Heilman) |
| Polina Potanina | | | Social | How do the automatic components of racial and gender bias interact with consciously-held beliefs about such biases? (with David Amodio)
How do such biases help perpetuate the hierarchical structure of society? (with John Jost) |
| Liz Przybylinski |
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Social |
How are everyday interpersonal relations influenced by past and
present relationships with significant others? (Susan Andersen) |
| Kyle Ratner |
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Social |
How quickly do we notice group differences? How does anxiety influence intergroup behavior? How do we reduce prejudice and stereotypes? (with David Amodio)
How do we generalize from one person to a different person of the same group? (with Yaacov Trope & Daphna Shohamy) |
| SoYon Rim | | | Social | Are spontaneous trait inferences controllable once they have been formed? (with Jim Uleman)
How does psychological distance from others influence our implicit impressions of them? (with Jim Uleman and Yaacov Trope) |
| Jennifer Thorpe | | | Social | Can significant others help one to know how to help others
in ways that are desired (versus undesired) by them? (Susan Andersen) |
| Jojanneke van der Toorn | | | Social | How, why, and when do people either resist, provide support for, or directly engage in social change? (with John Jost)
What is the effect of dependence on perceived legitimacy of authority? (with John Jost and Tom Tyler)
Are different types of systems justified in different ways and/or to a different extent? (with John Jost) How do system justification tendencies play out in the mental state inferences we draw from people’s behavior? (with John Jost and David Amodio) |
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