About the group
Our research lab is interdisciplinary and part of the Department of Psychology as well as Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo led by Jonas R. Kunst. In our aim to understand human behavior across different contexts, we combine perspectives from cultural and social psychology, and the political sciences more broadly. Doing so, we use a variety of methods, including experimental, longitudinal, cross-sectional and multi-level designs, qualitative interviews, and a combination of explicit and implicit measures.
Research topics
Acculturation and Intercultural Relations
How do immigrants relate to their new society of living and their own heritage culture? What are the factors shaping relationships between different ethnic and religious groups in society?
Prejudice and Discrimination
What are the factors underlying prejudice and negative stereotypes? Why do people dehumanize other groups?
Extreme Group Behavior and Political Psychology
Why are some people willing to risk their lives for a political cause? Why do people join foreign battalions? What explains willingness to commit extremist violence?
Susceptibility to Misinformation
What factors make people susceptible to misinformation online? How can we create resilience?
Gender Roles and Relations
How do gender stereotypes affect the way we view non-traditional women? How do differences in feminist identification and hostile sexism explain attitudes towards movements such as #metoo?
Achieving Social Harmony and Equality
How can hostility between groups be reduced? What kind of interventions can improve intergroup relations while also addressing status differences?
Environmental Psychology
How can we reduce meat consumption? How can we promote environment-friendly Choices?
Events
Racism among the Well-Intentioned: Racial Disparities in Healthcare
Time and place: May 15, 2023 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM, Auditorium 4, Harald Schjelderups hus
Welcome to an open guest lecture by Prof. John F. Dovidio on unconscious, racial bias among well-intentioned healthcare workers.
Well-intentioned people may reject prejudice consciously but still harbor implicit, often unconscious, racial bias. This implicit bias can adversely affect the ways healthcare providers treat and interact with their patients in ways that undermine the quality of care they provide.
This presentation, drawing on psychological research on the dynamics of racial bias in healthcare, examines the prevalence and influence of implicit racial bias in healthcare and its contribution to racial health disparities.
The presentation further discusses how individual strategies and structural supports can reduce the unintended negative impact of implicit bias on behavior and outcomes.
