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Principal Investigator

Jessica D. Remedios, PhD

Faculty Profile   Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jessica Remedios is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Identity and Stigma Lab (SISL) at Tufts University. She received her PhD in experimental social psychology from the University of Toronto in 2012. Dr. Remedios' research aims to understand the impact of stereotypes on stigmatized group members under conditions of complexity. As such, she focuses on how people with more than one stigmatized group membership are perceived and how these individuals cope with the multiple forms of prejudice they face.

In one line of work, Dr. Remedios explores how stigmatized people are perceived by others. She is interested in how one identity (e.g., gender) may affect how perceivers process information and use stereotypes about another identity (e.g., race) during person perception. Dr. Remedios also examines how individuals who have multiple stigmatized identities cope with facing more than one form of discrimination. Specifically, she aims to understand how having multiple stigmatized identities affects psychological and behavioral outcomes in targets. In both lines of work, Dr. Remedios uses social-cognitive methods to assess controlled and automatic attitudes that people hold about themselves and others.