GSPP Faculty
Jack Glaser
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Areas of Expertise/Interest:
- Experimental Social Psychology
- Hate Crime
- Political Psychology
- Research Methods
- Stereotyping, Prejudice & Discrimination
- Unconcious Social Cognition
Biographical Statement:
Jack Glaser received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1999. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. He studies these intergroup biases at multiple levels of analysis. For example, he investigates the unconscious operation of stereotypes and prejudice using modern, computerized methods, and is investigating the implications of such subtle forms of bias for discrimination law and law enforcement. He is also interested in the police practice of racial profiling, especially as it relates to the psychology of stereotyping, and the self-fulfilling effects of such stereotype-based discrimination. Additionally, Professor Glaser conducts research on a very extreme manifestation of intergroup bias - hate crime - and has carried out analyses of historical data as well as racist rhetoric on the Internet to challenge assumptions about economic predictors of intergroup violence. Another area of interest is in electoral politics and political ideology. He is specifically interested in the role of emotion (as experienced and expressed) in politics, and in the psychological underpinnings of liberalism and conservatism. Most recently, he has initiated research on capital punishment, the effect it has on legal decision making, and how that interacts with defendant race. In addition to teaching and conducting research at GSPP, Professor Glaser is involved in training California State judges in the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how they might operate implicitly, and undermine fairness, in the courtroom.
