Hilary B. Bergsieker
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My research investigates interactions and relationships between people from diverse groups. What makes our initial encounters, partnerships, and friendships with individuals from different cultural backgrounds fail or flourish? What steps can individuals (and institutions) take to build or repair trust across racial, religious, class, or other intergroup boundaries? How can we maintain interpersonal trust when facing intercultural conflicts?
I take a social psychological approach to understanding how the interpersonal dynamics of intergroup interactions and relationships evolve over time. Specifically, my work addresses individuals' impression management, nonverbal behaviour, affect, depletion, cooperation, and trust in intergroup interactions and relationships. Some of my current projects focus on manipulating interdependence in intergroup encounters and assessing integration in diverse social networks.
I have primarily taught quantitative courses -- undergraduate and graduate statistics, as well as multiple regression -- and enjoy using and refining advanced analysis techniques that help us understand the rich dyadic, relational, longitudinal, multilevel data that describe our social worlds.
Primary Interests:
- Close Relationships
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Journal Articles:
- Bergsieker, H. B., Leslie, L. M., Constantine, V. S., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). Stereotyping by omission: Eliminate the negative, accentuate the positive. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102, 1214-1238.
- Bergsieker, H. B., Shelton, J. N., & Richeson, J. A. (2010). To be liked versus respected: Divergent goals in interracial interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 248-264.
- Fiske, S. T., Bergsieker, H. B., Russell, A. M., & Williams, L. (2009). Images of Black Americans: Then, “them” and now, “Obama!” DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 6, 83-101.
- Kervyn, N., Bergsieker, H. B., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). The innuendo effect: Hearing the positive but inferring the negative. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 77-85.
- Murphy, M. C., Richeson, J. A., Shelton, J. N., Rheinschmidt, M. L., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2013). Cognitive costs of contemporary prejudice. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 16, 560-571.
- Shelton, J. N., Richeson, J. A., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2009). Interracial friendship development and attributional biases. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 26, 179-193.
- Shelton, J. N., Trail, T. E., West, T. V., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2010). From strangers to friends: The interpersonal process model of intimacy in developing interracial friendships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27, 71-90.
- Stephens, N. M., Hamedani, M. G., Markus, H. R., Bergsieker, H. B., & Eloul, L. (2009). Why did they “choose” to stay? Perspectives of Hurricane Katrina observers and survivors. Psychological Science, 20, 878-886.
- Townsend, S. S. M., Markus, H. R., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2009). My choice, your categories: The denial of multiracial identities. Journal of Social Issues, 65, 185-204.
- Uchida, Y., Townsend, S. S. M, Markus, H. R., & Bergsieker, H. B. (2009). Emotions as within or between people? Lay theory of emotion expression and emotion inference across cultures. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 1427-1439.
Other Publications:
- Bergsieker, H. B. (2010). National pride and prejudice: The case of Germany. In I. P. Karolewski & A. M. Suszycki (Eds.), Multiplicity of nationalism in contemporary Europe (pp. 151-173). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Courses Taught:
- Applications of Regression
- Multiple Regression
- Social Psychology
Hilary B. Bergsieker
Department of Psychology
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada
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