Welcome to

The Social, Identity, (In)Equity, Motivation, Sexuality, & Simulations Lab

At Wilfrid Laurier

About Us

Some of the areas that we focus on currently in the lab:

Collective Autonomy and Other Group Needs: We study how basic psychological needs are impacted by people’s sociocultural identities and their intergroup contexts

Intergroup Laboratory Simulations: We take an intergroup approach to studying intergroup relations by examining how groups actually interact within dynamic, interactive, and open-ended simulation experiments within the laboratory (see our methodological approach

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