Email: a.iyer@sheffield.ac.uk
Bio
Aarti Iyer is a Reader in Social and Health Psychology and the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Department of Psychology.
Aarti’s research investigates how status differences between social groups have been institutionalized to create systems of inequality and explores responses to such status hierarchies from three perspectives:
- Investigating the antecedents of individuals’ efforts to challenge inequality and injustice, for instance through political activism and support for government policy
- Improving organisations’ efforts to achieve social equality through affirmative action and equal opportunity programs
- Understanding how social identity processes shape disadvantaged group members’ efforts to navigate novel social contexts, with implications for acculturation strategies, self-views, and academic performance
Research interests
Aarti’s recent publications include:
- The association between transgender-related fiction and transnegativity: Transportation and intergroup anxiety as mediators. Psychology & Sexuality. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of post-migration stressors on refugees’ emotional distress and health: A longitudinal analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology. View this article in WRRO
- National identification, endorsement of acculturation ideologies and prejudice: The impact of perceived threat of immigration. International Review of Social Psychology, 31(1). View this article in WRRO
- “At least David Cameron resigned”: The protective effects of just-world beliefs for counterfactual thinking after Brexit. Personality and Individual Differences, 121, 25-30. View this article in WRRO
