Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
About
Tiffany N. Brannon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dispute Resolution Research Center and visiting assistant professor of management and organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She received her PhD and MA in social psychology from Stanford University and her BA in psychology from Florida International University. Her research has been published in Psychological Science and Psychological Inquiry. Her work has been awarded an Emerging Implicit Bias Scholar Award from the Harvard Law School, an American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award, and a University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Exemplary Diversity Scholar citation.
Current Work:
Her research examines socio-cultural identities in negatively stereotyped groups such as African-Americans and Latino-Americans. She investigates the potential for these identities to serve as a psychological resource--one that can facilitate a variety of individual and intergroup benefits. Her research integrates basic psychological theories related to the self, multicultural experiences, and consistency theories to understand the conditions that allow culturally shaped identities in negatively stereotyped groups to function as powerful agents of social change. This research has demonstrated that culturally shaped identities, when affirmed within mainstream educational settings, can increase academic motivation and performance in members of negatively stereotyped groups and can improve the intergroup attitudes of majority group members.
Research Area(s):
- Social Psychology
- Business and Management
