Research

Generally, my research interests are in collective identity, i.e., ways views of the groups or categories we belong to relate to our views of ourselves. I am particularly interested in ways people handle discrepancies between the way they view themselves and the way society may view a group to which they belong. I have on occasion done some research on other topics. Below are my publications on these and related topics as well as some posters with students.

• Malamuth, N.M., & Brown, L.M. (1994). Sexually aggressive men’s perceptions of women’s communications: Testing three explanations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 699-712. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.67.4.699

• Britt, T.W., Boniecki, K.A., Vescio, T.K., Biernat, M., & Brown, L.M. (1996). Intergroup anxiety: A person x situation approach. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22, 1177-1188. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672962211008

• Brown, L.M. (1998). Ethnic stigma as a contextual experience: A possible selves perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 163-172. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167298242005

• Brown, L.M. (1998). Subjectivity and practice: Stereotyping and other results of imposed perspective. In W.M. Parker (Ed.) Consciousness-raising: A primer for multicultural counseling (2nd edition) (pp. 123-146). C.C. Thomas.

• Leach, C.W., & Brown, L.M. (1999). Ethnicity and identity politics. In L. Kurtz (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. (vol. 1) (pp. 765-775). Academic Press. LOOK BELOW FOR THE CITATION TO THE SECOND EDITION IN 2008.

• Brown, L.M., & Johnson, S.D. (1999). Ethnic consciousness and its relationship to conservatism and blame among African Americans. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29, 2465-2480. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00121.x

• Brown, L.M., & Lopez, G.E. (2001). Political contacts: Analyzing the role of similarity in theories of prejudice. Political Psychology: Special issue entitled “Psychology as politics”, 22, 279-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/0162-895X.00239

• Brown, L.M., McNatt, P.S., & Cooper, G.D. (2003). Ingroup romantic preferences among Jewish and non-Jewish White undergraduates. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 27, 335-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0147-1767(03)00015-4

• Brown, L.M., & Dobbins, H. (2004). Students’ of color and European American students’ stigma-relevant perceptions of university instructors. Journal of Social Issues, 60, 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00104.x

• Brown, L.M., Boniecki, K.A., & Walters, A.M. (2004). Intergroup flexibility and people’s views of African Americans. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 28, 373-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2004.08.001

• Walters, A. M. & Brown, L. M. (2005). The role of ethnicity on the gender gap in mathematics. In A.M. Gallagher and J.C. Kaufman, (Eds.), Gender differences in mathematics (pp. 207-219). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511614446

• Brown, L.M., Bradley, M.M., & Lang, P.J. (2006). Affective reactions to pictures of ingroup and outgroup members. Biological Psychology, 71, 303-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.06.003

• Leach, C.W., Brown, L.M., & Worden, R.E. (2008). Ethnicity and identity politics.  In L. Kurtz (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. (vol. 1) (second edition). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373985-8.00063-5

• Brown, L.M., Awad, G.H., Preas, E.J., Allen, V., Kenney, J., Roberts, S., & Lusk, L.B. (2013). Investigating prejudice towards men perceived to be Muslim: Cues of foreignness versus phenotype. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, E237–E245. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12015

• Brown, L.M. (2021). The efficacy paradox: Teaching about structural inequality while keeping students’ hope alive. In M. Kite, K.A. Case, & W.R. Williams (Eds.), Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (pp. 105-118). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000216-000

• Brown, L.M., & Williams, W.R. (2021). Raising the consciousness of students holding ingroup stereotypes. In M. Kite, K.A. Case, & W.R. Williams (Eds.), Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (pp. 133-149). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000216-000

• Brown, L.M., Franks, D., Bigelow, N., Harcourt, F., Philipose, S., & Wolnisty, C. (2022). Same rhetoric, different decade: Recognizing the times and other sources of empowerment in Texas education. In M. Fortner, & I. Katzarska-Miller. (Eds.), Empowering students as change agents in psychology courses (pp. 288-302). Society for the Teaching of Psychology. https://teachpsych.org/ebooks/empoweringstudents

Zirkel, S., Lopez, G.E. & Brown, L.M. (2004). The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: Interethnic Contact and Change in the 21st Century. Journal of Social Issues, 60(1).

• You may also access this issue of Journal of Social Issues here.

Prologue to the 2013 Austin College Strategic Plan

Executive Summary of the Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, September, 2017