Steven L. Neuberg | The Neuberg Lab

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Welcome to the Neuberg Lab!

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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!

Interested in joining our lab?
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Honors Students, Past and Present:

Andrew Perkins (currently in the clinical psychology program at the University of Arizona)
Andreana Kenrick (currently in the clinical psychology program at Loyola University of Chicago)
Maggie Evavold (currently in law school)
Gretchen Anderson (currently a researcher at the American Association of Retired People)
"Honorary Honors Student" Josh Tybur (currently in the evolutionary psychology doctoral program at the University of New Mexico; received Psychology Department award for best honors thesis)
Chris Jenkins (currently in the evolutionary psychology doctoral program at the University of New Mexico)
Katherine Morse (currently in the industrial/organizational psychology doctoral program at George Mason University; received Psychology Department award for best honors thesis; her honors thesis was published in Personal Relationships)
"Honorary Honors Student" Beth Altringer (currently in graduate school, Cambridge University, England)
Nghi Vuong (ASU Law)
Deborah Nahom (received her Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Washington; is currently working in Great Britain)
Jay Meyers (received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Virginia; is currently doing research in the private sector; received Psychology Department award for best honors thesis)
Christian Cornelius (University of Arizona Medical College)
Jonna Hoffman (UCLA Law; her honors thesis was published with related research in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
Elizabeth Haley (Rice University industrial/organizational psychology doctoral program)

Useful Links:

Society for Experimental Social Psychology	Society of Personality and Social Psychology
Human Behavior and Evolution Society	Social Psychology Network (SPN)
ASU Psychology	American Psychological Society
Prejudice.org	Southern Poverty Law
Implicit Associations Test	Tolerance.org
Graduate Programs in Social Psychology	Social Psychology Faculty Profiles

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