WELCOME
I'm a professor in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University, and also in the Marketing Department of the Kellogg School of Management. I teach various courses in social psychology, and I direct the Social Cognition Laboratory, where we study the cognitive underpinnings of social attitudes, perceptions, and behavior.
RECENT RESEARCH
Intersectionality and Implicit Bias
American Children Show Clear Bias at the Intersection of Race and Gender
In a study published in the journal Developmental Science, we report evidence showing intersectional social biases among 4-year-old kids: they respond less positively to Black boys than to other subgroups.
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Risk and Decision Making
How Much Evidence Do You Need to Make a Decision?
New research led by Michalis Mamakos on costly information search shows that decision making mindsets can influence how much people are willing to pay in order to acquire more information before making a consequential choice.
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Race Bias
How Racial Stereotypes Infuse Conceptions of Risk Taking and Risk Takers
Research led by recent PhD recipient James Wages, shows that responsible risk-takers are imagined to have stereotypically White characteristics, but reckless risk-takers are seen as having stereotypically Black traits.
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