Research Interests:
Social and Political Psychology
The Stigma of Mental Illness
The Psycho-Social Construction of Reality, mostly through:
--The Construction of Identity through Narrative and Discourse
--Framing (The "Framing Perspective/Constructivism)

Hillary is a student in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS). In 2008, Hillary graduated from Iowa State University with a BS in psychology. Her general research interests include stereotype threat, social identities, the self, and cross-cultural psychology. Hillary's thesis examines the effect of gender identity and sexual orientation on stereotype threat for women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) fields.

Taylor is a MAPSS student, focusing on social psychology. In 2010, he graduated from Manhattanville College with a BA in Psychology. Following graduation, he worked as a research assistant in Dr. John Dovidio's Intergroup Relations Lab at Yale University. He is currently working with Dr. Matt Patton.
Research Interests
-Systems Justification
-Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Discrimination
-Social Neuroscience

Alexander is originally from Northampton, Massachusetts and completed his BA at Cornell University in 2009. Before matriculating at The University of Chicago, he worked as a lab manager at Cornell's College of Human Ecology.

Research Interests
Alexander is primarily interested in political and moral psychology. His focus is primarily on the relationship between political ideology and moral reasoning, attitudes, judgments, and behaviors. His current projects investigate how nationalism cues in the environment affect subsequent moral judgments and how political ideology affects employment of mechanisms of moral disengagement.

My main interests are in social behavior and stereptyping in the area of human-computer interaction. I am also interested in internet behavior and psychology, as well as intergroup behavior. My current research is on attitudes towards cooperative and competitive entities in video games.

Kate is currently a masters Social Psychology student in the Maters of Social Sciences Program. In 2009, Kate graduated from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities with a BA in Psychology. Kate is a research assistant for the Scenes project under Terry Higgins Clark and a political/morality Psychology research assistant for Patton lab. Kate's research interests focus on Cultural and Moral Psychology with a specific interest in morality, social identity, moral trade-offs and moral cultural differences.