Seniors Rachel Cockrell and Sarah Carpenter recently presented at the 19 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta.
Rachel Cockrell ’18 and Sarah Carpenter ’18 recently presented their research, “Ally for You, an Ally for Me: Endorsing a White Male Scientist as an Ally Signals Identity-Safety Among White Women,” at the 19 annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
India R. Johnson, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored the research. The annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology is the largest professional meeting of social psychologists and attracted over 5,000 attendees. This year’s meeting was held in Atlanta.
Cockrell and Carpenter have been working with Johnson on the research for almost two years and Cockrell is currently assisting Johnson with preparing the research for publication.
Cockrell and Carpenter’s research examines how allyship can be used as tool to attract white women to STEM fields and fits with Johnson’s larger body of research examining how to support individuals in underrepresented environments.