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Location
Tobin 634

Advisor: 

Dr. Linda Tropp

Masters Thesis

Laboratory Website: 

Intergroup Relations and Social Justice Lab

Center and Institute Affilitation: 

Psychology of Peace and Violence Program

Masters Thesis: 

Why Does Equality Matter Anyway? How Indifference to Inequality Relates to U.S.-Born White, Latino, and Black Americans' Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy

Research

Trisha Dehrone is a NSF GRFP Fellow at University of Massachusetts–Amherst. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Rutgers University – Newark, a M.S. in Social Psychology from University of Massachusetts–Amherst in 2022, and currently, she is a doctoral student in the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program. She became interested in improving relations between groups in tandem with advancing social justice efforts while interning in the White House's Office of Presidential Correspondence, managing casework for constituents interfacing with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) on a range of immigration and discrimination cases. 

Her research examines how people experience and navigate interactions with members of other groups. She is specifically interested in understanding the factors that may serve as barriers to or facilitate greater authenticity during these encounters, and whether cultivating greater authenticity may relate to greater feelings of intergroup closeness and empowerment. In her graduate work has also she designed and analyzed interventions designed to bridge group differences in divided societies in different parts of the world, and has worked on evaluating interventions in the U.S., Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has served as an intern with the Psychological Study of Social Issues' United Nations NGO Committee (https://www.spssi.org/), which supports and trains psychologists in the dissemination of psychological research for policy related to the UN agenda. 

Publications

Tropp, L.R. & Dehrone, T.A. (in press), Prejudice Reduction and Social Change. To appear in L. Huddy, D. Sears, J. Levy and J. Jerit (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology. 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, B., Tropp, L.R., Dehrone, T.A. & Cehajic-Clancy, S. (2022) How Intergroup Contact Shapes Intergroup Attitudes and Construals of Relations Between Ethnic Groups: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

Dehrone, T.A., Tropp, L.R., Burrows B., Bilali R., & Ginn, J. (2022), Coming Together After Genocide: How Openness to Communication about Conflict Experiences Shapes Willingness for Social Integration in Post-Genocide Rwanda. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000625

Dehrone, T. A. (2022), Why Does Equality Matter Anyway? How Indifference to Inequality Relates to U.S.-Born White, Latino, and Black Americans' Attitudes Toward Immigration Policy. Masters Theses. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1179 https://doi.org/10.7275/28616526 

Dehrone, T., Burrows, B., Tropp, L.R., Bilali, R., & Morrison, G. (2021), Contact-based programs strengthen social cohesion in post-genocide Rwanda. In A. Nordstrom and W. Goodfriend (Eds.), Innovative Stigma and Discrimination Reduction Programs Across the World. (pp. 87-100). New York: NY. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042464