Interactions and Socialization

Our most recent work seeks to better understand how people think about, interact with, and talk to each other about other groups of people who are different from them. This could include people of different weights, religions, ethnicities, physical abilities, or sexual orientation. In order to examine these interactions, we use BIOPAC Acqknowledge software to record physiological responses, such as heart-rate, and to collect video recordings to code for participants’ behaviors (explicit and implicit) during their interactions. We also collect qualitative and quantitative data from individuals about their socialization styles (e.g., how parents socialize their children about different social groups). Implications of this research could speak to how people develop social biases and norms about prejudice and intergroup relations.

You can find preprints and publications about our interaction project here and here. And more work about socialization, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Finally, you can find a preprint of a new theoretical paper in collaboration with Dr. Emma Levine on difficult conversations here and our new Annual Review of Psychology paper on Racial Socialization in the United States here.