Biography
Chair, Psychology; Associate Professor
BS (Mississippi State); MA, PhD (Kansas)
Broadly, my research takes a sociocultural approach to issues of discrimination and oppression, locating the source of these issues in both cultural products and individual minds. This approach highlights the degree to which these two sources are inextricably linked; the individual is both shaped by the cultural world and plays a role in the reproduction of reality. In particular, I am interested in the mutual relationship between identity and oppression. For example, recognizing oppression may influence how we think about ourselves while at the same time these understandings may limit conceptions of what does (and what does not) constitute oppression.
Recent Publications
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Culture and priming in the perception of facial emotion, self-representation and thought: Brazil and United States
- Culture and Brain, 2020
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"I know it when I see it": Recent victimization and perceptions of rape
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2016
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National and ethnic identity in the face of discrimination: Ethnic minority and majority perspectives
- Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2015
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Beyond adaptation: Decolonizing approaches to coping with oppression
- Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2015
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White privilege awareness and efficacy to reduce racial inequality improve White Americans’ attitudes toward African Americans
- Journal of Social Issues, 2012
Research Classification
- no classification
Current Scholars in Psychology
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