LAURA RUTH PARKER, PH.D.
I am a social psychologist who studies how people can effectively combat biases and behave in more egalitarian ways.
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I am an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown.
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I am recruiting undergraduate research assistants for my lab in Summer and Fall 2019.
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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.
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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.
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Thornton-Lugo, M. A., Busby, A., & Parker, L. R. (in preparation). Frontline justice: A model of trickle-down justice, justice climate, and implicit bias.