Grace Rivera

Assistant Professor of Psychology

• Faculty
• Instructor

• Email:

  gnrivera@olemiss.edu

• Office Location:

  205 Peabody Hall

• Phone:

  662-915-7383

• Website:

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Dr. Rivera is an Experimental Social Psychologist who examines Lay Beliefs about the Self, Meritocracy and Heritability.

Research Interests

• How lay-theories (i.e., beliefs people hold about the way the world works) influence the way we approach life and the people around us.
• How Lay beliefs are shaped by our cultural context and social identities, and their impacts on various individual and interpersonal outcomes (e.g., psychological well-being, decision-making, social perceptions, racial biases, and relationship satisfaction).
• Lay beliefs about true selves and existential philosophy and cultural psychology.
• Lay beliefs about American meritocracy and its consequences for diversity and cross-cultural perception.
• Lay beliefs about the heritability of virtuous character traits and their implication for virtue development, parenting practices, and child-parent relationships.

Courses Taught

• PSY 201 Introduction to Psychology
• PSY 321 Social Psychology

• Office, Department or Center

  Department of Psychology

• School

  College of Liberal Arts

• Associated Program/s

  Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

  Bachelor of Science in Psychology

  Ph.D. in Psychology

• Campuses

  Oxford