Linda Tropp was invited to speak for a segment on WWLP's TV show Mass Appeal on understanding the state of race relations where they discussed the motivation behind recent protests calling for racial justice and an end to police violence against Black Americans. June 30, 2020

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Peace program former post-doctoral researcher Hanne Watkins and Professor Berni Leidner have published a post on Character & Context, the blog from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

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Quinnehtukqut McLamore working with Dr. Bernhard Leidner was awarded the fifth annual Keith Rayner Memorial Graduate Student Research Award. Their project, Challenge and Threat Framings of COVID-19 Messaging and Downstream Consequences, will investigate how messaging about the coronavirus affects how the stressor of the pandemic is processed, and downstream effects on both compliance with precautionary measures (e.g., social distancing) and xenophobia toward Asians and Asian Americans.

Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of PBS faculty members, Brian Lickel, Allecia Reid, Katherine Dixon-Gordon, and Ezra Markowitz (environmental conservation) will study the psychological and societal response the coronavirus epidemic.  During the next year, the researchers will periodically survey a sample of 4,000 U.S. residents, examining their emotions and behavior related the outbreak and to the public health guidelines and mandates put in place to combat the epidemic.