ISCON Best Paper Award!
December 5, 2025
Our 2024 paper in PNAS by Schultner, Stillerman, et al. was selected for the Best Paper Award by the International Social Cognition Network. Congrats team! See the paper on our Publications page. ISCON Best Paper Award!Traast et al. paper in GPIR: Ethnicity bias on impressions in the NL
April 13, 2025
We find that in a Dutch context, the ethnicity of an interaction partner—White or Moroccan—influences how they learn and form impressions about the partner through feedback in direct interactions. Read it here Traast et al. paper in GPIR: Ethnicity bias on impressions in the NLNew in PNAS: Transmission of societal stereotypes to individual-level prejudice through instrumental learning
October 30, 2024
We show how mere exposure to societal stereotypes lead to internalized individual-level prejudice—an effect involving the implicit influence of stereotype knowledge on instrumental learning during interactions with group members. Read the paper! New in PNAS: Transmission of societal stereotypes to individual-level prejudice through instrumental learning
David Amodio receives 2024 SESP Trajectory Award!
October 30, 2024
At the 2024 SESP meeting in Santa Fe, Prof. Amodio received the Career Trajectory Award, which recognizes contributions of midcareer scholars in social psychology. David Amodio receives 2024 SESP Trajectory Award!New work on the social learning of prejudice in Science Advances!
October 30, 2024
Using experimental and computational methods, we show how people can acquire another person’s prejudiced beliefs merely by observing that person’s interactions with group members. Read paper here! New work on the social learning of prejudice in Science Advances!New paper from the lab!
September 10, 2024
We show that merely viewing a prejudiced person’s intergroup behavior induces bias in observers—a novel learning mechanism for prejudice formation and propagation https://science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk2030 New paper from the lab!
Amodio Lab Launches New Website
April 26, 2019
Amodio Lab is excited to unveil our new website – AmodioLab.org. The website provides an overview of our research, the people that make up the lab and the opportunities that are available at the lab. It also includes publications and resources. Stay up-to-date on all of our activities at AmodioLab.org. Amodio Lab Launches New Website