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Current Research: Diane M. Mackie Diane Mackie's research spans two distinctly different domains: intergroup relations (focusing on the affective, cognitive, and motivational processes by which group memberships influence people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior) and social influence (focusing on the affective, cognitive, and motivational processes by which peoples' attitudes and behavior are changed). Ongoing work in her lab includes, for example, funded projects on the nature of social emotions and their role in prejudice and discrimination; the role of culture and ingroup identification in generating group emotions, justifying ingroup actions, and explaining outgroup derogation; the role of familiarity, affect, and emotion in persuasion; the impact of prior exposure to persuasive appeals or sources on attitude change; and the antecedents and consequences of forming implicit and explicit attitudes about social groups. |