Susanne Bruckmüller
Worked with Nyla Branscombe, Glenn Adams, Andrea Abele (University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg, Germany). Broadly interested in gender stereotypes, the
gender-related self-concept and the self in general. Current studies include
research on the glass cliff (Ryan & Haslam, 2005), which refers to the effect
that women are more likely to be selected for leadership positions that are
associated with difficulties and a high risk to fail. She’s exploring different
processes that might cause this phenomenon with a special focus given to the
role of stereotypes about male and female leadership. Other projects concern:
the grounding of self-experience in material aspects of a given environment,
namely abundance vs. scarcity of resources; the role of gender-related aspects
of the self-concept (i.e. masculinity & femininity) for the use of various
coping-strategies.
New contact address: sebruckm@phil.uni-erlangen.de
Vanessa Edkins
Worked with Lawrence Wrightsman and Glenn Adams. Her main interest is psychology
and its intersection with the law. Research in this area has focused juror
decision-making, juror attitudes, and the legal defense of entrapment. Recently
she constructed a scale measuring general attitudes toward the legal system
addressing all levels - from attitudes toward police and lawyers to attitudes
toward crime policies and sentencing - using a crime control/due process
perspective. Secondary interests include definitions of racism. Her goal is to
address whether teaching the concept of racism as something stemming from the
individual versus something institutionalized affects what students define as
examples of racism or racist behavior.
New contact address: vedkins@fit.edu
April Horstman Reser
Her research interests lie in the areas of prejudice, stigma, the status quo and
Terror Management Theory. She worked with Chris Crandall. With respect to
prejudice, she is interested in how people construct and maintain beliefs in
themselves as non-prejudiced individuals. Thus far, she has discovered that
people believe they are unprejudiced by constructing social comparisons to
highly-bigoted others that enable them, by comparison, to decide they are not
prejudiced. Her work with regard to stigma focuses on how targets of prejudice
come to be stigmatized. In the status quo and terror management areas, she
examined how reminders of mortality salience affect people’s reactions to the
status quo. When people are threatened with reminders of their own death, they
show an exaggerated preference for the status quo. She is also interested in the
areas of social justice, retribution and in how one’s political ideology changes
one’s perspective on current events.
New contact address: A.Horstman.Reser@MCLA.edu
Emre Selcuk
Worked with Omri Gillath. Interested in adult attachment theory. He was a Fulbright
visiting graduate student from Middle East Technical University,
Turkey, where he investigated how self-reported adult attachment was related to
parental caregiving behaviors extensively observed in natural home
settings. At KU, he worked on two research projects. In one of the research
projects, we were trying to understand how adult attachment relates
to the way people manage their social networks. In another project,
we examined the relationship between adult attachment and
thought suppression.
New contact address: emreselcuk81@yahoo.com
Ruth Warner
Worked with Nyla Branscombe and Chris Crandall. Her research interests include the meaning of history,
perceived obligations of victims, and justifications for prejudice.
New contact address: ruthhelenwarner@gmail.com
