NCID-1701
Colin Leach
Professor
Barnard College, Columbia University
Education/Degree:
1 Social Psychology (University of Michigan)
About
Colin Wayne Leach studied at Boston University (B.A., 1989; M.A. 1991) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1995) and was formerly on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz (USA) and the University of Sussex (UK). He is a former Ford and U.C. Chancellor’s fellow; has been a visiting scholar in Australia, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Turkey; and is a 2017 recipient of the Kurt Lewin award for scientific contribution from the European Association of Social Psychology. He has published over 80 articles and chapters and has presented his research in over a dozen countries. Colin also co-edited Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2003) and The Social Life of Emotions (Cambridge, 2004). His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council, the European Science Foundation, and the (Dutch) Organization for Scientific Research.
Current Work
Most of Colin’s research is concerned with status and morality in self-evaluation, emotion, and motivation. His most recent work extends his research on appraisal, emotion, and coping with societal disadvantage to examine Black and White Americans reactions to images of police violence and Black protests against it. This multi-method research uses neuroscience, psychophysiology, and self-report to examine processes of appraisal, emotion, and coping across multiple systems within the person from the first tenths of a second after exposure to images designed to move people viscerally. Recent publications include: Reinka, M.A. & Leach, C.W. (in press). Race and reactions to police violence and protests against it. Journal of Social Issues. Leach, C.W., Carraro, L., Garcia, R.L., & Kang, J.J. (2017). Morality stereotyping as a basis of women’s in-group favoritism: An implicit approach. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 20 (2), 153-172.
Research Area Keyword(s)
coping, Emotion, identity, prejudice, racism