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
Devin G. Ray
Devin received his BA in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz and enrolled in the PhD program at UCSB in 2004. His research interests encompass both intergroup relations and intragroup processes. Within intergroup relations, his research focuses on the cognitive and affective consequences of applying a social category to one?s self or to others. Within intragroup processes, he is particularly interested in what happens when someone loses or abandons a group to which they used to belong, that is, group exit. Outside of the lab, Devin says, "I spend more time than I should probably admit trying to stay fit and I have taken up surfing, though I have not gotten terribly good at it."
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. When she's not studying human behavior, Diana can usually be found watching her current TV obsession: the Wire. She also has been known to sing and dance on occasion, but rarely at the same time.
Jackie graduated from Pomona College and enrolled in the PHD program at UCSB in 2007. Her research interests include social cognition, person/group perception, acculturation, multiculturalism, emotion and persuasion. One of her current projects investigates the effect of implicit emotions on person perception. Jackie says, "In my free time, I like to think of ways to narrow down my research interests."
Past Post Doctoral Researchers
Robert J. Rydell
UCSB Post-Doc 2006-2007
Currently Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Indiana University - Bloomington
