Jennifer Richeson
Jennifer Anne Richeson (* 1972 in Baltimore , Maryland ) is an American social psychologist at Yale University . Her research interests are racial prejudice and stereotypes and their implications for the interaction of white and non-white people in the United States.
Live and act
Jennifer Richeson grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. As an African American , she said she attended a predominantly white elementary school, a predominantly black middle school, and an all-girls high school, which sparked her interest in questions about race and gender. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brown University in 1994, a master's degree from Harvard University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in 2000 from Nalini Ambady. in social psychology (Paradigms of power: Social stigma versus situational status in dyadic interaction).
From 2000 to 2005, Richeson was Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dartmouth College . Since 2005, she has held a professorship in psychology at Northwestern University before moving to Yale University in 2016 . Here it is today (as of 2020) Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology .
Richeson explores psychological phenomena related to cultural differences in “race”, gender and socio-economic status , in particular the dynamics of encounters between people from different groups. In addition to traditional surveys, her methods also include empirical methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In this way, she was able to show that increased efforts on the part of test subjects not to let their prejudices or those of the other person come to fruition resulted in poorer test results for cognitive tasks performed at the same time. This results in an approach to quantify the “costs” of various prejudices.
According to the Scopus database, Richeson has an h-index of 41 (as of June 2020).
Awards (selection)
- 2006 MacArthur Fellowship
- 2015 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Guggenheim scholarship
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate from Brown University
- 2020 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Web links
- Jennifer Richeson , Social Perception & Communication Lab and CV (as of 2019) at Yale University (yale.edu)
- Jennifer Anne Richeson at the African American History Program (cpnas.org)
- Jennifer A. Richeson at neurotree.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richeson, Jennifer A. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Jennifer Richeson. In: macfound.org. MacArthur Foundation, September 1, 2006, accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Jennifer Richeson. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Jennifer A. Richeson. In: gf.org. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Ben Shumate: Honorary degree recipients 2019. In: browndailyherald.com. The Brown Daily Herald, May 24, 2019, accessed June 27, 2020 .
- ↑ New Members. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , accessed June 27, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Richeson, Jennifer |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richeson, Jennifer A .; Richeson, Jennifer Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American social psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore , Maryland |