Identity and prejudice in everyday interactions

The overarching goal of this project is to advance our understanding of how our own and others’ multiple group memberships contribute to our experiences of everyday interactions. The project combines three research lines. First, we aim to develop an information-based account of prejudice by investigating how people make inferences about individuals from their multiple group memberships. Second, we focus on the bi-directional relationship between intergroup contact and attitudes in everyday interactions. Third, we aim to uncover how minority groups cope with everyday experiences of discrimination and how their multiple identities might help them in this process. The project employs research designs with high ecological validity, such as ecological momentary assessment (experience sampling), factorial survey experiments, and virtual reality (VR) experiments.