Galen Bodenhausen, Center Co-Chair  Email | Homepage
Professor of Psychology and Marketing

Research Interests: The subtle influences of stereotypes and prejudice on perception, judgment, and behavior; effects of emotion and arousal on decision making; the effects of diverse social settings on interpersonal behavior; the role of social identities in shaping consumer behavior

Katherine Phillips, Center Co-Chair  Email | Homepage
Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Research Interests: Diversity in small groups; Minority influence; Information sharing; Status; Identity; Boundary management

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale  Email | Homepage
Professor, Human Development and Social Policy PhD Program
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Director, Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health at the Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families

Joan Chiao, Steering Committee Member  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor: Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology

Research Interests: Social and cultural neuroscience; Race and its influence on perception, cognition and emotion; Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying social status and dominance; Integration of psychology and neuroscience research to public policy and population health issues

Amy Cuddy, Steering Committee Member  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Research Interests: Culture/Ethnicity; Emotion; Helping/Pro-Social Behavior; Intergroup Relations; Interpersonal Processes; Organizational Behavior; Prejudice/Stereotyping; Social Cognition

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: Voting Behavior; Race and Ethnic Politics; Political Psychology; Inter-Minority Relations; Immigration

Alice Eagly  Email | Homepage
Professor and Department Chair, Social Psychology
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: Gender and leadership; Discrimination; Stereotyping; The use of social science evidence in discrimination litigation

Adam Galinsky, Steering Committee Member  Email | Homepage
Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management

Research Interests: Power and status; Cross-cultural experiences and creativity; Intergroup conflict; Stereotyping and stigma

Gerri Henderson  Email | Homepage
Associate Professor of Integrated Marketing Communication

Research interests: Marketplace diversity (also known as multicultural marketing); Urban marketing; Consumer networks (cognitive and social)

Angela Lee   Email | Homepage
Mechthild Esser Nemmers Professor of Marketing

Research interests: Effects of exposure on consumer learning, product evaluation and brand choice; Conscious and nonconscious influences of memory; Self regulation, motivation and persuasion; Cross cultural similarities and differences in information processing; Affect and emotion; Metacognition

Robert Livingston, Steering Committee Member  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Research interests: Implicit attitudes and decisions; social cognition; the role of affect in interpersonal and intergroup relations; managing cultural and ethnic diversity; social justice and conflict resolution; self-regulation

Douglas Medin  Email | Homepage
Professor of Cognitive Psychology

Research interests: Culture; Cognition and Learning; Computational Models of Cognition; Concept and Classification Learning and Decision Making; Native American Science Education

Keith Murnighan  Email | Homepage
Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Risk Management

Research interests: Leadership; Negotiation; Decision Making; Teams

Mary Pattillo  Email | Homepage
Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: race and ethnicity (with an emphasis on class stratification); urban sociology; poverty; inequality; policy and qualitative methods

Lincoln Quillian  Email | Homepage
Associate Professor of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: Prejudice and discrimination; Racial inequality in American society

Jennifer Richeson, Steering Committee Member  Email | Homepage
Associate Professor of Psychology and African American Studies
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Research Interests: Cognitive, affective, and behavioral dynamics and consequences of interracial contact and diversity; Detecting, confronting, and managing the threats associated with prejudice and discrimination; social categorization and identity management

Sophie Trawalter  Email | Homepage
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Research interests: Behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dynamics of interracial contact

Elaine Wong  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies

Research interests: Interpersonal and organizational communication; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Social perceptions and how they affect group processes and performance

Patrick Wong  Email | Homepage
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Research interests: The impact of cultural experience on speech and music perception and learning; individual differences in auditory learning; foreign language acquisition; music cognition

Kimberly Yuracko  Email | Homepage
Professor of Law

Research interests: Anti-discrimination law, with a focus on sex discrimination in employment and gender equity in athletics