Politics and Intergroup Relations Lab (PIRL) – New York University Department of Psychology

The Politics and Intergroup Relations Lab (PIRL) at New York University examines the interplay between group identities—including race, gender, and class—and political judgment.

Note: Unfortunately, Eric Knowles is not accepting graduate students during the current admissions cycle.

Featured papers:

Rivera Pichardo, E. J., Vargas Salfate, S. E., Knowles. E. D. (2022). The psychology of colonial ideologies: Decoupling pro-egalitarian and neo-colonial sources of support for Puerto Rico statehood. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Knowles, E. D., Tropp, L. R., & Mogami, M. (2021). When White Americans see “Non-Whites” as a group: Belief in minority collusion and support for White identity politics. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25, 768-790.

Gollwitzer, A., Martel, C., Brady, W. J., Knowles, E. D., & Van Bavel, J. J. Partisan differences in physical distancing predict infections and mortality during the coronavirus pandemic, Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1186–1197.

Goudarzi, S., Pliskin, R., Jost, J. T., & Knowles, E. D. (2020). Economic system justification predicts muted emotional responses to inequality. Nature Communications, 11, 1-9.