{"id":92,"date":"2014-05-01T21:20:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialperceptionlab.wp.tulane.edu\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:10:08","slug":"lab-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/?page_id=92","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Laurie O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1509 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-1007x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-1007x1024.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-768x781.jpg 768w, https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-1510x1536.jpg 1510w, https:\/\/socialperceptionlab.tulane.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2025\/09\/Headshots_LaurieOBrien_2025-2014x2048.jpg 2014w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laurie O&#8217;Brien is a professor of psychology at Tulane University. She joined the faculty at Tulane in 2005, and before that she worked as a post doctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara. Laurie earned a B.A. in Psychology from St. Louis University in 1997 and a Ph.D from the University of Kansas in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>As an experimental social psychologist, she is interested in issues related to prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, and stigma. Two central questions of her research are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>&nbsp;How do people from high status and low status groups make judgments about what constitutes prejudice?<\/li>\n<li>What are the consequences of perceiving prejudice and discrimination for people from both high and low status groups?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Dr. O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s work has been published in some of the top journals in social psychology including, <em>Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/em>, <em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/em>, and <em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin<\/em>. In addition, she has received funding for her work from the National Science Foundation, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and Tulane University&#8217;s Research Enhancement Fund.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact Dr. O&#8217;Brien at lobrien2@tulane.edu, view her <a href=\"https:\/\/wavetulane-my.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/g\/personal\/dkulibert_tulane_edu\/EcnKQ1tklaNLinPgCUlmWJQBk9LdhIlw-xouBBXsVepZUQ?e=jU2AuD\">CV<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/laurie-o-brien-bb80a477?utm_source=share&amp;utm_campaign=share_via&amp;utm_content=profile&amp;utm_medium=ios_app\">Linkedin<\/a> or her <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=V11MNhgAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Laurie O&#8217;Brien is a professor of psychology at Tulane University. 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