Identity Development, Emotions, and Attitudes (IDEA) Lab
The IDEA Lab examines how social identities and emotions shape our experiences, attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, the lab investigates the antecedents and consequences of stereotyping and prejudice, with the ultimate goal of creating interventions to improve intergroup attitudes. The lab utilizes multiple methods, including longitudinal, experimental and psychophysiological approaches.
Lab director: Deborah Wu
Perry, S. P., Abaied, J., & Wu, D. J., Doriscar, J. E. (in press). Racial socialization in the United States. Annual Review of Psychology.
Wu, D. J., Gibson, T. M., Ziegenbein, L. M., Phillis, R. W., Zehnder, C., Connor, E. A., & Dasgupta, N. (2024). A communal social vaccine: An identity-based learning community intervention enhances the lived experience and success of first-generation college students in the biological sciences. Scientific Reports, 14, 10163.
Perry, S. P., Wu, D. J., Sánchez, S., Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Abaied, J., Waters, S. F., & Osnaya, A. (2024). White parents’ racial socialization messages during a discussion task predict reductions in their White children’s pro-White biases. Developmental Psychology.
Wu, D. J., Syropoulos, S., Rivera-Rodriguez, A., Dasgupta, N. (2023). From Model Minority to Yellow Peril: How threat perceptions and disgust predict anti-Asian prejudice during COVID-19. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12833. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12833
Wu, D. J., Thiem, K. C., & Dasgupta, N. (2022). Female peer mentors early in college have lasting positive impacts on female engineering students that persist beyond graduation. Nature Communications, 13, 6837. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34508-x
Wu, D. J., Sánchez, S., & Perry, S. P. (2022). “Will talking about race make my child racist?” Dispelling myths to encourage honest white U.S. parent-child conversations about race and racism. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101420
Syropoulos, S.,* Wu, D. J.,* Burrows, B. E., & Mercado, E. (2021). Psychology doctoral program experiences and student well-being, mental health, and optimism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 629205. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629205
Wu, D. J., Svoboda, R. C., Bae, K. K., & Haase, C. M. (2021). Individual differences in sadness coherence: Associations with dispositional affect and age. Emotion, 21(3), 465-477. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000731
Wu, D. J., Park, J., & Dasgupta, N. (2020). The influence of masculine faces on stereotype activation among women in STEM: An ERP investigation. Biological Psychology, 156, 107948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107948
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Inquiries can be sent to deborahw@asu.edu.