The foundation for my work lies in the conceptual framework of cultural psychology. Although I apply this framework broadly in my intellectual activities, my empirical research has focused on two general topics.
1. Sociocultural foundations of relationship (e.g., friendship, enemyship, attraction, satisfaction, intimacy, disclosure, etc.) as revealed by comparisons of North American and West African worlds.
2. A sociocultural approach to the study of systemic oppression (e.g., racism and sexism), which I pursue in two distinct programs of research.
(a) Oppression without Discrimination: how the mere suggestion of bias can be sufficient to cause harm to people from oppressed target groups-and perhaps benefit people from dominant groups-even in the absence of differential treatment and regardless of individual prejudice.
(b) Group differences in perception of racism: The motivations and representations (e.g., celebratory constructions of history or definitions of racism as individual prejudice) that lead White Americans to deny the extent of racism in the USA.
Website: http://www.psych.ku.edu/psych_people/faculty_Glenn_Adams.shtml
I am currently a psychology instructor at Central Community College in Hastings, Nebraska. My research focuses primarily on the cultural grounding of personal relationship. I study how particular socio-cultural and historical circumstances influence psychological phenomena, such as the process of attraction. For example, the importance of attractiveness in everyday life may vary depending on the extent to which different cultural worlds afford or require individual choice in the construction and maintenance of relationship. I have found evidence for this hypothesis along various dimensions, including national context, relationship context, rural-urban context, and experimental manipulation of relationship constructions.
I am working on my PhD in sociology at the University of Kansas. My research interests include deviance, social control, oppositional and alternative groups, moral panics, social movements, collective behavior and group processes. My research involves interviewing and observing members of historical reenactment groups, interviewing those under house arrest, analyzing interrogation transcripts from the Salem witchcraft trials, analyzing Black Panther newsletters, and comparing pirate and privateer codes.
I am a fourth year student in the Social Psychology Ph.D. program. My main research interest is on gender stereotyping. One line of my research in the CPRG is on the cultural grounding of stereotyping that focuses on the social construction of gender in different cultural context in relation to the stereotypes of men and women. Another line of my research is on the cultural grounding of personal relationships that explores how personal relationship patterns (e.g. friendship and enemyship) vary according to dynamic constructions of reality in different cultural settings.
I am 5th year Ph. D. student in the Social Psychology program at KU. My primary research is on processes related to stereotyping. However, I am also interested in the negotiation between different identities (e.g. national vs. global), as well as the implications of those identities for perceptions of social groups.
I am a first year doctorate student in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas and work as part of the Culture and Psychology Research Group under the supervision of Glenn Adams. My research focuses on social interactions, the sociocultural and gendered construction of self and identity (particularly through self and cultural narratives), self-presentation and self-silencing as well as the implications of these processes for health and social policy. I am currently exploring the extent to which self-silencing is a part of Turkish women's experience, the social and developmental factors contributing to this silence and the correlates of this silence with women's health.
I am currently a first year graduate student in the social psychology program at KU. My research interests include stereotyping and prejudice and how they are affected by culture.
I am 4th year Ph.D. student in the Social Psychology program at KU. My research looks at the implications for culturally defined approaches to interethnic relations. For example, when a situation is ambiguous, individual perceptions of that situation as an instance of racism may vary depending upon whether the cultural context promotes values associated with multiculturalism or colorblindness. I am also interested in the differing constructed meanings of social categories and the consequences these constructions have for attitudes and behavior.
Website: http://www.people.ku.edu/~nia
I am a third year student in the social psychology program at the University of Kansas. My interests involve a sociocultural approach to racism and oppression that locates the roots of these phenomena within the social world rather than individual minds. Incorporated within this approach my current research topics include racism and oppression absent of differential treatment, perceptions of racism and sexism, and the effects of representations of racism in social psychology courses.
Website: http://www.people.ku.edu/~kpickett/
I am currently working on my PhD in Social Psychology at KU with an emphasis in African and African American studies. I am primarily interested in the cultural constructions of memory and identity. My research interests include cultural representations of the historical past (e.g., Black History Month displays, museums), group differences in perceptions of racism, and the relationship between collective memory and identity in West African and Diasporic settings.
Website: http://www.people.ku.edu/~psalter/