After receiving her BA and MA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1978, Diane worked as a research assistant for a year at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She received her MA and PhD in Social Psychology from Princeton University in 1984 and was hired by UCSB in the same year. The author of more than 100 articles and chapters on social influence and intergroup relations, Diane is also co-author (with Eliot Smith, Purdue University) of an introductory social psychology textbook, Social Psychology (3rd Edition, 2007). A fellow of APS, SESP, and SPISSI, she serves on the editorial boards of many of the major social psychology journals, and has been Associate Editor for Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and Personality and Social Psychology Review. She includes among her professional honors being named the Western Psychological Association Outstanding Researcher Award in 1992; the Psi Chi Distinguished Lecturer, Rocky Mountain Psychological Association in 2000, and the winner of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award, from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, in 1998.
Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-2057
Fax: (805) 893-4303
E-Mail: mackie@psych.ucsb.edu
Office: UCSB Psychology East (Building 251), Room 3815
Current Graduate Students
Diana J. Leonard
Diana received her BA in Psychology from Northwestern University in 2004 and enrolled in the PhD program at UCSB in 2006. Her research interests include identity, social judgments, and categorization, particularly as they relate to social injustice and intergroup conflict. She has focused on emotional convergence in groups as it occurs through self-stereotyping. Her dissertation will explore the ways in which groups can use apology to modulate the emotions and behaviors of other ("victim") groups.
Anthony received his BA in Psychology from UC Davis in 2010 and enrolled in the PhD program at UCSB that fall. His research interests include categorization and intergroup conflict, and the effect the media has on stereotyping of our own and other groups.
Past Post Doctoral Researchers
Robert J. Rydell
UCSB Post-Doc 2006-2007
Currently Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Indiana University - Bloomington
Curently The Suez Chair in Leadership and Personal Development Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
