Pronouns: they/them
Email: tmorgenr@purdue.edu
Office:
Department of Psychological Sciences, Room 2160
703 Third Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Thekla Morgenroth
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences
Areas of Expertise
- identity and intergroup relations; social categorization; essentialism; social cognition
Department of Psychological Sciences Research Area(s)
- Social Psychology
Biography
My research examines the (social) psychological processes that influence tendencies to categorize others in line with different categorization systems. The primary questions guiding my work are: (1) Which motivations and belief systems guide either support for or opposition to specific systems of social categorization? (2) What are the mechanisms through which these systems of social categorization are sustained or revised
Outside of work, I’m a big fan of cats (especially my cat Kartoffel), karaoke, and board games.
Education
- PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology, 2015, University of Exeter