RISC Lab featured in Rutgers-Newark Graduate Newsletter
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Psychology Today: Dr. Rivera discusses Health Disparities
April is National Minority Health Month. In Psychology Today, Dr. Luis M. Rivera asks, What is the role of research psychologists and psychological science in healthcare disparities research? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sound-science-sound-policy/201804/ethnic-racial-health-disparities-are-social-justice-issues … Continue reading →
RISC Lab Members present at SPSSI 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
Ethnic-Racial Centrality Moderates the Intellectual Disengagement and College Performance Relation Tina V. Reifsteck, Luis M. Rivera For African American and Latino individuals, professional and personal successes increase with academic achievement. However, pervasive stereotypes portraying their groups as unintelligent can detrimentally affect their … Continue reading →
Tina Reifsteck, PhD Student, Recipient of the SPSSI Crosby-Spendlove Travel Award
The SPSSI Crosby-Spendlove Travel Award is an award given to a graduate student to support travel and cover expenses for the SPSSI summer conference. This competitive award is given to a student presenting research coming from a social justice perspective. … Continue reading →
Alexandra Margevich receives the Inaugural Harold Siegel Service Award
Alexandra Margevich, Ph.D. (2017), received the Harold Siegel Service Award on May 11, 2018. This award is presented in honor of Dr. Harold Siegel for his commitment to outstanding service to Rutgers University. The Department of Psychology presents this award … Continue reading →
Nicole Sachs Successfully Defended her Dissertation!
Nicole’s dissertation research titled, Social Cognitive Processes Underlying Victim Self and Identity: Evidence of Explicit and Implicit Victim Identity and Self-Stereotyping, examined whether a past violent victimization experience leads individuals to explicitly and/or implicitly identify with the group victims and … Continue reading →
The Criminologist: RISC Lab Ph.D. Students Write about Writing
The Criminologist’s Student Forum featured a piece written by RISC Lab Ph.D. students Nicole Sachs, Alexandra Margevich, and Marina Henein. From their article, “Graduate students are primarily instructed on how to write for the purpose of a course requirement, Master’s … Continue reading →
Dr. Rivera Talks to The Hill, Washington, D.C., about Implicit Biases and Health Disparities
The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) held a Congressional Seminar in which Dr. Rivera gave a briefing on health disparities: “Understanding and pink bouncy castle Addressing Disparities in Physical and Mental Health: Insights from Psychological Science.” … Continue reading →
RISC receives 2015 Chancellor’s Grant
Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Obese children are at greater risk for short-term and long-term physical and mental health problems and poor academic performance. Obesity targets children from all backgrounds, but it disproportionately affects Hispanic and African-American children. … Continue reading →
Health Disparities – Journal of Social Issues
The presence of diverse ethnic-racial groups in the United States today is a source of national pride. However, this cultural sentiment is overshadowed by the reality that those ethnicracial groups that are stigmatized carry a disproportionate burden of negative physical health outcomes. These systematic differences are … Continue reading →