Research
Our faculty are actively involved in funded research and are productive, highly-cited scholars. Our interdisciplinary approach and collaborative nature lends itself to a variety of research interests including but not limited to:
- Aggression
- Attachment orientation
- Belief Systems
- Child and adolescent peer relations
- Child-free adults
- Discrimination and prejudice
- Health disparities
- Life satisfaction
- Morality
- Parent-child relationships
- Personality development
- Personality genomics
- Replication
- Romantic relationships
- Self-esteem
- Social network analysis
- Stereotype knowledge and use
- Well-being
Labs & Research Projects
ACES Lab: Dr. Kaston D. Anderson Jr.
Advancing Community Empowerment and Social Justice ACES Lab
Belief Systems Lab: Dr. Mark Brandt
Our goal is to understand the causes and consequences of political, religious, and moral beliefs. The Belief Systems Lab
Cesario Social Cognition Lab: Dr. Joseph Cesario
Studying the cognitive, psychological, and behavioral responses related to information about social groups. Social Cognition Lab
Close Relationships Lab: Dr. William Chopik
Examining how close relationships–and the people in them–change over time, situations, and across the lifespan. Close Relationships Lab
Network Science: Dr. Zachary Neal
Developing methods for understanding social, economic, urban, transportation, and mathematical networks. Networks
Social Networks in Schools: Dr. Jennifer Watling Neal
Understanding the role of students' peer networks in shaping behavior, personality, and well-being and the role of educators' networks in facilitating the adoption and use of new programs and practices. Social Networks in Schools
Morality and Intergroup Relations Lab: Dr. Carlos Navarrete
Studying how evolutionary pressure influence the emergence of the psychological mechanisms that produce within-group cooperation and between-group conflict MIR Lab
Personality and Well-Being Lab: Dr. Richard Lucas
Investigating a number of questions about personality processes, the factors that are associated with high levels of subjective well-being, and the associations between the two Personality and Well-Being Lab