Sentiment toward racialized violence, and protest against it (like Black Lives Matter), varies a great deal over time, place, and people. Colin Leach (he/they) will discuss a transdisciplinary project that uses micro (behavioral experiments, psychophysiology) and macro (news and social media) empirical approaches to trace the psychological and social dynamics of this sentiment in the U.S.

Colin Wayne Leach (B.A. 1989, M.A. 1991, Boston University; Ph.D. 1995, University of Michigan) is a social and personality psychologist who studies status and morality in identity, emotion, and motivation. He is also interested in protest & resistance; Prejudice, stereotypes, …isms; Meta-theory, methods, and statistics; and transdisciplinary approaches.