We are currently exploring the following questions, and others like them:

• Why do we stigmatize some people and not others? Why are we prejudiced against some groups and not others?
• Why do we feel and act differently toward members of different stigmatized groups?
• What's it like to experience "stereotype threat"--to be worried that we might inadvertently confirm with our own actions a negative stereotype about our group? Is this experience, and its consequences, different depending on whether our actions will be viewed by members of our ingroup, an outgroup, or just by ourselves?
• What characteristics do we want members of our groups to have? Why these characteristics and not others?
• Do people who are themselves often stigmatized (e.g., people who are ethnic and religious minorities, have physical disabilities, etc.) treat other potentially stigmatized individuals better, worse, or the same as do those who are not often stigmatized? Why?
• How do important social goals (e.g., to protect oneself, to find romance) influence the ways in which we perceive and come to understand the individuals around us?
• In what ways does religion influence intergroup conflict?

In addition to research-related activities during the week, and participation in smaller project meetings, all undergraduate and graduate students working in the lab join me (and a host of interested others) every Friday afternoon for a two-hour research meeting. During this time, we review the week’s activities, generate new research ideas, design new studies, bring to the group hot-off-the-presses data from studies just completed, discuss new findings in social psychology, and/or relate our research to events in the broader world. I encourage active participation by undergrads and grads alike—the livelier, the better. The vast majority of undergraduate students who work in my lab go on to graduate school—and some are even running their own lab meetings as young professors!

Ethnic minorities, people with AIDS, homeless people… How are individuals such as these treated in American society? Why are they treated this way?

DO RESEARCH AND EARN COURSE CREDIT!!

Our social psychology lab is looking for motivated, curious, and enthusiastic research assistants to help us investigate how people feel, think, and act toward various stigmatized people and groups, and why they react in these ways.

Learn first-hand about research and gain valuable experience for graduate school and the job market.
 

You will collect data, explore the research literature, participate in lab group discussions, and perform several other project-related tasks—all while learning about prejudice, stigma, stereotyping, and discrimination.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Neuberg in Psychology 250, at steven.neuberg@asu.edu, or at 965-7845.

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