Planning Team

 

Alexandra F. Corning, PhD
Michaela Bucchianeri, MA

Rae Lundy, MA

Jamie Serrano, BA


Spring 2010 Team Members

 

Brandon Boston

Alex Bott

Geralyn Janke

Courtney Klosterman

Desiree Montealegre

 

 

 

Lab Location and Contact Information 
B-7 Suite
located on
the lower level
of Haggar Hall
@ Notre Dame

574.631-0971

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Do some people you know seem to label people and events as discriminatory far too frequently? Or, maybe sometimes you feel others are not properly interpreting the discrimination that is so obviously taking place right before them? It is possible, and probably quite appealing to imagine, that you are always correct in your interpretations and it is everyone else who has processing problems! The fact of the matter though is that many, if not most, displays of prejudice nowadays are cloaked in subtlety and are nuanced enough so as to invite a variety of interpretations. (And, certainly, behaviors that are devoid of prejudice contain their own potential for misinterpretation.)

 

Social cognition, broadly defined, is the study of how people process social information. In our lab, we are interested specifically in how it is that people come to their unique conclusions about whether or not discrimination has taken place in ambiguous social interactions. What personality features and what conditions of the situation lead people to one conclusion or another? Who is more likely to jump to a conclusion quickly? How changeable are people's judgments once formed? These are the types of questions we examine in our work on the perception of discrimination.

 

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Research Links: Society for Personality & Social Psychology  Social Psychology Network  Discrimination Resources Society of Clinical Psychology  Society of Counseling Psychology  APS  APA
Course Links:  Research Methods    Understanding Eating Disorders Discrimination Course Psychology of Discrimination   Social Psychology Course Resources 
acorning@nd.edu  Fax 574.631-8883  Department of Psychology  University of Notre Dame   Notre Dame, IN 46556 Updated 01.11.10