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Lindsay
Sharp Dissertator University
of Wisconsin Department
of Psychology 1202 West Johnson Street Madison,
WI 53706 Email: lsharp@wisc.edu |
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Broadly
speaking, I am interested in exploring issues related to stereotyping
and prejudice from a developmental perspective. I'm
interested in how people of different ages use social category
information such as race and gender to make sense of the world around
them. More specifically, my current
research projects explore the cognitive, emotional, and biological
underpinnings contributing to the formation and development of
motivations underlying intergroup attitudes. Research
using adult samples has led to an appreciation for individual
differences in motivations to respond without prejudice.
This previous research has facilitated an understanding
that people can be motivated to respond without prejudice, and those
individuals motivated primarily by internal motivations stemming from
egalitarian personal beliefs respond in the most consistently
low-prejudiced manner. Despite this
increased appreciation for the need to consider motivational processes
in analyses of intergroup attitudes and behavior, pressing questions
still exist as to how, why, and when some individuals come to adopt
egalitarian motives into their personal values system, whereas others
do not. To address these issues, my
research seeks to apply a multidisciplinary approach utilizing
available knowledge, expertise, and methodologies from a variety of
psychology-related disciplines in an effort to better address key
questions about the origin and development of intergroup attitudes. |
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