Nava Caluori

Dr. Caluori studies the intersection of culture, religion, and intergroup dynamics. She focuses on how socio-ecological contexts shape individual-level psychology, from the beliefs people hold to their attitudes toward other groups. Her lab uses a multi-method approach to examine these questions among cross-cultural samples, to investigate patterns of cultural change over time, and to address causality experimentally in lab settings.

Ongoing lines of work examine questions about how perceived threats reshape the way people define and construct group boundaries (around their religious ingroup, political ingroup, etc.), the kinds of cultural information that do and do not get transmitted between cultural groups in a globalizing world, and how cultural recombination shapes cooperation and conflict both within and between groups. Underlying all these lines of work are fundamental questions about cultural change in an increasingly interconnected world, and the implications of these changes for intergroup dynamics.