Kevin A. McLemore

Jennifer Zimmerman

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Graduate Students

Sarah Butler

Jim Davis

Ovidiu Dobria

Mark Brandt

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Echo Becker

Monika Marko

Christine Reyna

My research program focuses on two primary areas of interest. The first relates to cognitive and motivational factors that influence stereotyping and prejudice and how these impact interpersonal and intergroup relations as well as political attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, I am interested in how the attributional content of stereotypes is used to guide and legitimize behaviors toward certain groups. The second relates to the study of how interpersonal goals guide the formation and maintenance of impressions. Specifically, I am interested in the versatile strategies that perceivers use to develop social impressions that allow them to effectively orchestrate certain types of relationships with others

Hello. My name is Kevin and I am a second year graduate student in the General Psychology M.S. program. I have been a member of LSSR or working on projects associated with LSSR for four  years (two undergraduate, two graduate). I am part of the stereotypes and identity team. Broadly speaking, my research interests are stereotyping and prejudice, stigma, impression formation, and social cognition. Currently, I am applying to Ph.D. programs in social psychology. My favorite film directors are Fassbinder, Hitchcock, and Lynch. My favorite song (of all time) is the Magnetic Fields’ “100,000 Fireflies.”

I am interested in the social-cognitive motives and processes that influence high and low status individuals’ endorsement of system-justifying ideologies. I am investigating the extent to which ambivalent sexism is ambivalent and exists in society. I am also studying how people use stereotypes to signal an identity to others.

I work with Dr. Christine Reyna and Dr. Ralph Erber on research regarding stereotyping, and mood.

I am currently interested in the effects of religiosity on the justification of systems, especially issues relating to political agendas and social justice. I have just recently joined the LSSR, as this is my first year undergoing graduate work. I enjoy books, music, and a handful of films.