Professor at the University of Connecticut
About
Colin Wayne Leach studied at Boston University (B.A., 1989; M.A. 1991) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1995) and was formerly on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz (USA) and the University of Sussex (UK). He is a former Ford and U.C. Chancellor’s fellow; has been a visiting scholar in Australia, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Turkey; and is a 2017 recipient of the Kurt Lewin award for scientific contribution from the European Association of Social Psychology.
He has published over 80 articles and chapters and has presented his research in over a dozen countries. Colin also co-edited Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2003) and The Social Life of Emotions (Cambridge, 2004). His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council, the European Science Foundation, and the (Dutch) Organization for Scientific Research. Colin has been Associate Editor and Consulting Editor of several journals in social and personality psychology and is currently Co-Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Current Work:
Most of Colin’s research is concerned with status and morality in self-evaluation, emotion, and motivation. His most recent work extends his research on appraisal, emotion, and coping with societal disadvantage to examine Black and White Americans reactions to images of police violence and Black protest against it. This multi-method research uses neuroscience, psychophysiology, and self-report to examine processes of appraisal, emotion, and coping across multiple systems within the person from the first tenths of a second after exposure to images designed to move people viscerally.
Recent publications include:
Reinka, M.A. & Leach, C.W. (in press). Race and reactions to police violence and protest against it. Journal of Social Issues.
Leach, C.W., Carraro, L., Garcia, R.L., & Kang, J.J. (2017). Morality stereotyping as a basis of women’s in-group favoritism: An implicit approach. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 20 (2), 153-172. doi: 10.1177/1368430215603462
Leach, C.W., Çelik, A.B., Bilali, R., Cidam, A., & Stewart, A.L. (2016). Being there: The 2013 anti-government protests in Istanbul, Turkey. Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 4(1-2), 25-37.
Leach, C.W. & Cidam, A. (2015). When is shame linked to constructive approach orientation? A meta-analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 983-1002.
Leach, C.W. & Livingstone, A. (2015). Contesting the meaning of inter-group disadvantage: Towards a psychology of resistance. Journal of Social Issues, 71, 614-632.
Research Area(s):
Racism & Prejudice, Identity, Coping & Emotion, Protest
