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Johanna Ray Vollhardt

Johanna Ray Vollhardt

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My research focuses on the psychological impact of group-based victimization on political attitudes and relations with members of other groups (other victim groups as well as the perpetrator group). More specifically, I am interested in the social psychological processes and conditions that give rise to constructive, rather than to destructive consequences of collective victimization. I have studied these questions among various ethnic, religious and national (minority) groups in the U.S., Europe, India, and East Africa. Other questions I currently investigate are psychological processes during (e.g., resistance) and in the aftermath of genocide (e.g., acknowledgment of collective victimization), as well as how group-based power shapes experiences of and responses to collective victimization. I have a strong interest in the use of multiple methods, working with community samples, and in the integration of knowledge between disciplines (e.g., history and psychology).

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Causal Attribution
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Political Psychology
  • Self and Identity

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Courses Taught:

  • Experimental Methods in Psychology
  • Intro to Social Psychology
  • Prosocial Behavior and Collective Action
  • Social and Cultural Psychology of Genocide
  • Social Psychology of Ethnic Violence and its Aftermath (Graduate Seminar)
  • The Psychology of Resistance During Genocide
  • Theory and Method: Research Design (Graduate seminar)

Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Psychology Department
Jonas Clark Hall
950 Main Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01610
United States of America

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