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Ongoing Projects
Humor Project
Our whole lab recently finished collecting data for our project focusing on the effects of different humorous content (e.g., jokes with traditional vs counter-traditional values) on identity threat and other values and atttitudes.
Tolerance Project
Tolerance Project: This project aims to investigate the antecedants of acceptance, discrimination, and tolerance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey.
Robot Threat and Collective Action Project
We are investigating whether robots and similar technologies can threaten our basic human needs, and further influence intergroup attitudes and collective action intentions.
Moral Minorities Project
We are working on how perceptions of moral minorities (e.g., vegans, environmentalists) and beliefs about how moral minorities see majority group members affect meat-eating and ecological behaviors.
LGBTQ+ Collective Action Project
We are studying on the antecedants of minority and majority collective action for and against LGBTQ+ rights, and how these different types of collective actions affect each other.
Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction Project
We are investigating whether if we can extend the effects of intergroup contact to contact with a social robot.