LAURA RUTH PARKER, PH.D.
I am a social psychologist who studies how people can effectively combat biases and behave in more egalitarian ways.
I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown.
I am recruiting undergraduate research assistants for my lab in Summer and Fall 2019.
You can get in touch with me via email.
ABOUT MY RESEARCH
Currently, my research focuses on developing and validating effective strategies that result in long-term bias reduction, promote inclusivity, and favorable diversity-related attitudes and behaviors.
PUBLISHED WORK
PUBLICATIONS
Parker, L. R., Monteith, M. J., & South, S. C. (in press). Dehumanization, prejudice, and social policy beliefs concerning people with developmental disabilities. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Parker, L.R., Monteith, M.J., Moss-Racusin, C. A., & Van Camp, A. R. (2018). Promoting concern about gender bias with evidence-based confrontation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 74, 8-23.
Burns, M. D., Monteith, M. J., & Parker, L. R. (2017). Effects of counterstereotypic training on stereotype application. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 97-110.
Monteith, M.J., Blodorn, A., Carter, E.R., & Parker, L.R* (2015). Translating prejudice and discrimination psychological research to address inequality. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1, 307-309.
*denotes first authorship is shared equally among all authors
HANDBOOK CHAPTERS
Burns, M. D., Parker, L. R., & Monteith, M. J. (2016). Self-regulation strategies for combatting prejudice. In C. Sibley and F. K. Barlow (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice (500-518). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Monteith, M. J., Parker, L. R., & Burns, M. D. (2015). The self-regulation of prejudice. In T. D. Nelson (Ed.), Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination (409-432). New York: Psychology Press.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATION
McCarty, M. A., Parker, L. R., & Monteith, M. J. (in preparation). Communally constrained leadership decisions.
Parker, L. R., Monteith, M. J., Lane, S. P, McIntyre, M. & Holloway, E. M. (in preparation). Boosting identification, belonging, persistence and performance through stereotype self-regulation training among women in engineering.
Thornton-Lugo, M. A., Busby, A., & Parker, L. R. (in preparation). Frontline justice: A model of trickle-down justice, justice climate, and implicit bias.