Social Identity Threat and Academic Achievement
How do group-based threats to social identity (e.g., stereotype threat, group-based discrimination) shape biological and psychological stress responses?
What role do biological and psychological stress responses play in shaping educational outcomes?
Coping with Discrimination: An Emotion Regulation Approach
How do marginalized individuals regulate their emotions in response to group-based discrimination?
What emotion regulation strategies are effective in helping marginalized individuals content with group-based discrimination?
How do emotion regulation strategies influence collective action?
Fostering Positive Intergroup Interactions
Does the adoption of learning (vs. performance) goals foster positive interaction experiences in challenging interracial interactions? Do learning (vs. performance) goals promote positive interaction experiences in other challenging interaction contexts such as such as interactions between those who have opposing political views?
How do cross-gender interracial interactions shape people’s experiences?