Two longitudinal studies with students from underrepresented groups investigated the role of active learning interventions in the development of STEM self-efficacy and intentions to pursue STEM in the future. Study 1 longitudinally tracked high school students participating in a four-week … Continue reading →
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice funding research on the function of prejudice in the regulation of collective guilt. This project will investigate if White individuals express implicit and explicit biases to down-regulate collective guilt toward their group’s transgressions … Continue reading →
The RISC Lab welcomes its newest addition, Chenqi Gao! What Chenqi had to say about her research interests: “I’m interested in studying social categorization, prejudice, and intergroup relations. More specifically, I want to examine how gender stereotypes interact with context … Continue reading →
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This project proposes a mentoring model, the Social Proximity of Mentorship (SPM), that centers mentor-mentee relationships between advanced undergraduate near-peer mentors and lower-level undergraduate students. Based on the SPM model, the main objective is to demonstrate the utility of a … Continue reading →
Congratulations to our graduate student, Hanh Annie Vu, for her new role as the Chair of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Committee 2021-2022! In her role, she is working to create resources and organize events that benefit students … Continue reading →
Congratulations to our graduate student, Hanh Annie Vu, for being selected as the Vice-Chair for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Committee 2020! In her new role, she is working to create resources and events that benefit … Continue reading →
“My portfolio in Senator Wyden’s office focuses on technology and bias, such as algorithmic bias,” he says in reference to the development of an algorithm that was part of the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safety Transitioning Every Person … Continue reading →
The Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition lab is working on several interrelated studies to identify ways to combat barriers underrepresented minorities (URMs) face in STEM disciplines. Our primary goal is to promote social psychological change among URMs including STEM identity, interest, … Continue reading →
Marina’s dissertation research titled, Exploring the consequences of Relationships with Offenders, examined whether direct personal or professional relationships, or indirect experiences with offenders leads individuals to explicitly and/or implicitly associate self with the group criminal. She also examined under what … Continue reading →
