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Overview

Sophie Trawalter is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their primary field of study is within the social sciences, with a focus on sociology and political science, social psychology, applied psychology, anthropology, and general psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics related to social and intergroup psychology, racial and ethnic identity research, critical race theory in education, place attachment and urban studies, behavioral health and interventions, race, history, and American society, as well as memory, trauma, and commemoration.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sophie Trawalter include:

  • Out of place: Socioeconomic status, use of public space, and belonging in higher education. (2020) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Social Psychological Research on Racism and the Importance of Historical Context: Implications for Policy. (2022) Current Directions in Psychological Science

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Kelly M. Hoffman
  • Kyshia Henderson
  • Diane-Jo Bart-Plange
  • Lindsay Palmer
  • Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi

Publication venues where Sophie Trawalter frequently publishes include:

  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science

Best Publications

  • Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites

    Kelly M. Hoffman;Sophie Trawalter;Jordan R. Axt;M. Norman Oliver

  • An fMRI investigation of the impact of interracial contact on executive function

    Jennifer A Richeson;Abigail A Baird;Heather L Gordon;Todd F Heatherton

  • Why do interracial interactions impair executive function? A resource depletion account.

    Jennifer A. Richeson;Sophie Trawalter

  • How ideological migration geographically segregates groups

    Matt Motyl;Ravi Iyer;Shigehiro Oishi;Sophie Trawalter

  • Predicting Behavior During Interracial Interactions: A Stress and Coping Approach

    Sophie Trawalter;Jennifer A. Richeson;J. Nicole Shelton

  • Racial bias in perceptions of others' pain.

    Sophie Trawalter;Kelly M. Hoffman;Adam Waytz

  • Attending to Threat: Race-based Patterns of Selective Attention

    Sophie Trawalter;Andrew R. Todd;Abigail A. Baird;Jennifer A. Richeson

  • Performance on the IOWA card task by adolescents and adults.

    William H. Overman;Krisha Frassrand;Shi Ansel;Sophie Trawalter

  • Ironic Effects of Racial Bias During Interracial Interactions

    J. Nicole Shelton;Jennifer A. Richeson;Jessica Salvatore;Sophie Trawalter

  • African Americans' Implicit Racial Attitudes and the Depletion of Executive Function after Interracial Interactions.

    Jennifer A. Richeson;Sophie Trawalter;J. Nicole Shelton

  • Regulatory focus and executive function after interracial interactions

    Sophie Trawalter;Jennifer A. Richeson

  • A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks

    Adam Waytz;Kelly Marie Hoffman;Sophie Trawalter

  • The Threat of Appearing Prejudiced and Race-Based Attentional Biases:

    Jennifer A. Richeson;Sophie Trawalter

  • Let's Talk About Race, Baby! When Whites' and Blacks' Interracial Contact Experiences Diverge.

    Sophie Trawalter;Jennifer A. Richeson

  • Converging Interracial Consequences of Exposure to Violent Rap Music on Stereotypical Attributions of Blacks

    James D. Johnson;Sophie Trawalter;John F. Dovidio

  • Children's racial bias in perceptions of others' pain

    Rebecca A. Dore;Kelly M. Hoffman;Angeline S. Lillard;Sophie Trawalter

  • Eye-Gaze Direction Modulates Race-Related Amygdala Activity

    Jennifer A. Richeson;Andrew R. Todd;Sophie Trawalter;Abigail A. Baird

  • On the categorization of admired and disliked exemplars of admired and disliked racial groups.

    Jennifer A. Richeson;Sophie Trawalter

  • Got Pain? Racial Bias in Perceptions of Pain

    Sophie Trawalter;Kelly M. Hoffman

  • Concerns about appearing prejudiced get under the skin: Stress responses to interracial contact in the moment and across time

    Sophie Trawalter;Emma K. Adam;P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale;Jennifer A. Richeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer A. Richeson
Jennifer A. Richeson Yale University
J. Nicole Shelton
J. Nicole Shelton Princeton University
Angeline S. Lillard
Angeline S. Lillard University of Virginia
Adam Waytz
Adam Waytz Northwestern University
B. Keith Payne
B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Shigehiro Oishi
Shigehiro Oishi University of Chicago
Emma K. Adam
Emma K. Adam Northwestern University
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
E. Ashby Plant
E. Ashby Plant Florida State University

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