Christine Reyna, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Christine Reyna is a Professor in Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago and Principal Investigator of the Social and Intergroup Perceptions (SIP) lab. Christine received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UCLA.
Her research primarily focuses on group identity, stereotypes, prejudice, and intergroup relations with an emphasis on how people legitimize prejudice using attributions, values, and moral framing. She has examined how these processes play out in a variety of political and social issues–such as racial, gender and sexual discrimination, systemic injustice, immigration, education, health care, political polarization, and the psychology of extremism.
As a scholar interested in the universal psychological underpinnings of prejudice, she examines prejudice in all of its diverse forms, including examining prejudice across the ideological spectrum (liberal and conservative prejudice) as well as inter- and intra-group prejudices.