Psychology

project

Elm City Card and Discrimination

publication

Peer Pressure Against Prejudice: A High School Field Experiment Examining Social Network Change

December 31, 2010

data

Enhancing Academic Performance and Social and Emotional Competence With the RULER Feeling Words Curriculum

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Enhancing Academic Performance and Social and Emotional Competence With the RULER Feeling Words Curriculum

April 2, 2012

project

Testing Causal Mechanisms

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Changing Environments by Changing Individuals: The Emergent Effects of Psychological Intervention

December 15, 2015

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Bayesian Estimation and Model Selection in Group-Based Trajectory Models

December 16, 2020

Xanni Brown

Xanni Brown [she/her] is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the social psychology program, where she studies intergroup relations. Her work focuses on how people perceive and react to threats to racial hierarchy. Before that, she worked as the policy director at a campaign finance reform non-profit. In 2014 she received a B.A. in social studies from Harvard University, where she also played rugby and worked in the Sidanius intergroup psychology lab.

Jennifer Richeson

Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology

Professor Richeson’s research examines multiple psychological phenomena related to cultural diversity. Her work generally concerns the ways in which sociocultural group memberships such as race, gender, and socio-economic status impact the way people think, feel, and behave, especially during interactions with members of different sociocultural groups.

Peter Salovey

President of Yale, Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

Peter Salovey, Provost and soon to be President, is the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He joined the Yale faculty in 1986 after receiving an A.B. and A.M. from Stanford University in 1980, with departmental honors and university distinction, and a Ph.D. from Yale in 1986. He holds secondary faculty appointments in the Schools of Management and Public Health and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He was appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in January 2003, Dean of Yale College in July 2004, and Provost in October 2008.