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Jennifer Wang
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Education/Degree:
1 Psychology (University of Washington)
About
Dr. Wang is currently an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2012. Her current research and teaching interests focus on racial microaggressions and other forms of discrimination, cultural psychology, emotion, identity, immigrant stress and mental health, Asian American psychology, and within-person patterns of variation.
Current Work
Dr. Wang's current research interests focus on conditions in which racial microaggressions, or seemingly innocuous racial slights, become emotionally distressful for minority targets. Specifically, she's investigating the types of perpetrator characteristics (e.g., race, perceived diversity experiences) that may increase the negative emotion intensity and reporting of racial prejudice. She is also currently working on the following projects: (1) how people can talk about cultural diversity without stereotyping groups and (2) whether body weight is related to perceptions of being seen as American.