How do individuals talk about their biases?
How do individuals regulate their biases?
What strategies do they endorse generally?
What strategies do they endorse at the daily level?
How do individuals enact more engaged forms of bias regulation?
Relevant Papers
Beatty, J. F. & Hill, P.L. (in-principle acceptance). Registered Report: An Exposure-Therapy Approach to Reducing Prejudice and Anxiety Towards Black People. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Beatty-Wright, J. F., Lohani, M. & Hill, P.L. (2025). Intergroup Bias Regulation Strategies. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Beatty, J. F., Hill, P. L., Dorsicar, Jonathan, & Leath, S. (under review) Themes of Bias Regulation.
Beatty, J. F. (Dissertation, 2025). Bias Regulation Strategy Selection in Daily Life: Using Daily Diary Methodology To Study Personal Bias Regulation Strategies. https://doi.org/10.7936/xnr2-yc84
Beatty, J. F. (Subject Matter Exam, 2023). A Process Model of Intergroup Bias Regulation.
Beatty, J. F. & Lai, C.K. (in prep). A Process Model of Intergroup Bias Regulation.
Beatty, J. F., Kwak, J., & Hill, P.L. (in prep). A multi-method approach to Bias and Emotion Regulation.
Lai, C. K., Drake., R. G., & Beatty, J. F. (2023). Diversity training is just teaching. In E. Halperin, B. Hameiri, & R. Littman (Eds.), Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Evidence-Based Approaches to Resolve Intergroup Conflict. Routledge. LINK
How do individuals process negative, personal information?
How do individuals manage and cope with cultural stress?
How does a sense of purpose relate to stress coping in difficult circumstances?
Relevant Papers
Hill, P. L., Beatty, J. F., & Wolk, M.W. (2024). Purpose in life and stress reactivity. To be included in Q. Yan (Ed.), Psychoneuroimmunology: Methods and Protocols (Third Edition). Springer Nature, USA.
Hill, P. L., Beatty, J. F., Toprakkiran, S., & Wolk, M.E.W. (2024) Sense of Purpose as a Potential Buffer Against the Deleterious Effects of Cultural Stress. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Special Issue.
Hill, P. L., Rule, P., Beatty, J. F, Wolk, M.W., (accepted) Forgivingness, Discrimination, and Activism among Black Adults. The Journal of Positive Psychology.
Hill, P.L. & Beatty, J. F. (under review). Defensiveness against Negative Personal Feedback: Correlations with Identity Processing Styles and Identity Commitment.
Hill, P. L., Beatty, J. F., & Spengler, M. (under review) Sense of Purpose and Academic Outcomes at University: The Role of Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills.
Hill, P. L., Beatty, J. F., & Lohani, M. (in prep) Comfortably Distressed in the Pursuit of Purpose.
How do individuals change reactive responses to threatening information about the self?
Can considering emotions in a more granular way shift intergroup anxiety and empathy?
How can mental-contrasting help reduce prejudice and anxiety?
Relevant Papers
Beatty, J. F. & Hill, P.L. (in principle acceptance). Registered Report: An Exposure-Therapy Approach to Reducing Prejudice and Anxiety Towards Black People. British Journal of Social Psychology.
Beatty, J. F., Rozek, C.S., & Lai, C.K. (under review) A Personalized Intervention Promote Engaged Racial Bias Regulation.
Beatty, J. F., Tudder, A. Kessel, M., Feldman-Barret, L., & Lai, C.K. (in prep). Exploring the Power of Immersion and Emotion for Intervention Design.
Beatty, J. F., Tudder, A. Kessel, M., Feldman-Barret, L., & Lai, C.K. (in prep). Exploring the Power of Emotion Granularity for Intergroup Anxiety.
M E T H O D O L O G I C A L
A P P R O A C H E S
Immersive intervention designs
Inductive and deductive qualitative data analysis
Cross-Sectional surveys
Experiments
Longitudinal daily diary studies
Advanced Statistical Methods, such as Multilevel Modeling, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, and Factor Analysis
Open science practices such as pre-registrations, accessible data, and registered reports