1. Jennifer A Richeson was born on September 12,1972 and is an American social psychologist who studies racial identity and interracial interactions.
21 Facts About Jennifer Richeson
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Jennifer Richeson is currently the Philip R Allen Professor of Psychology at Yale University where she heads the Social Perception and Communication Lab.
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Jennifer Richeson was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.
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Jennifer Richeson was raised in a predominantly white middle-class area of Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of a businessman and a school principal.
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Jennifer Richeson has described herself as an indifferent and underachieving student in her childhood.
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Jennifer Richeson entered a predominantly black middle school and all-female high school.
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Jennifer Richeson has cited these early experiences as important in developing her interest in identity and interracial interactions.
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Jennifer Richeson became an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2000.
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Jennifer Richeson was a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
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Jennifer Richeson joined the faculty at Yale University in 2016, where she is the Philip R Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception and Communication Lab.
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Jennifer Richeson is endeavoring in the translation of empirical research into the practical application of knowledge.
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Jennifer Richeson serves as an executive committee member on the Societal Experts Action Network, which is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Jennifer Richeson writes opinion pieces and commentaries on topics related to race.
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Jennifer Richeson is planning to develop the theme into a book-length manuscript.
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Jennifer Richeson is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association of Psychological Sciences, Society of Experimental Social Psychology, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Jennifer Richeson received an honorary doctorate from her Alma mater, Brown University, in the same year.
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Jennifer Richeson received a Carnegie Foundation Senior Fellowship in the same year.
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Jennifer Richeson is recognized for her work examining the psychological phenomena of cultural diversity, social group memberships, dynamics of race and racism, and the course of interracial interactions.
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Jennifer Richeson's research makes use of neuroimaging methodologies in examining the dynamics of interracial interactions.
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Jennifer Richeson examined the experience of group-based discrimination and its impact on the relations with members of other stigmatized groups.
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Jennifer Richeson believed that it could be helpful in promoting the stigma-based solidarity, and in turn, reducing the negative attitudes among stigmatized groups.