Rate My Professor Lusine Grigoryan

Grigoryan's research focuses on intergroup conflict and cooperation, prejudice, social categorization and stereotypes, social identity complexity and integration, values and morality, and cross-cultural differences, with an emphasis on open science practices. She has attracted substantial funding, notably the European Research Council Starting Grant (2025-2030, €1,709,681) for the project 'Many faces of prejudice: the “What”, the “Why”, and the “How” of inferences we make from membership in social groups,' a Templeton Foundation grant via the Psychological Science Accelerator (2023-2025, $977,072) on cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face, and a German Science Foundation grant (2021-2025, €241,053) on identity and prejudice in everyday interactions. Her accolades include the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award (2024), European Association of Social Psychology Early Career Award (2023), Society for Personality and Social Psychology Publication Prize (2021), and BSPA Publication Award for Innovation in Behavioral Policy (2024). Selected publications encompass 'The social cure properties of groups across cultures: Groups provide more support but have stronger norms and are less curative in relationally immobile societies' (2024, Social Psychological and Personality Science), 'Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries' (2024, Science Advances), 'Differentiating between belief-indicative and status-indicative groups improves predictions of intergroup attitudes' (2023, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin), and 'Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations' (2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). She contributes as Associate Editor for the Journal of Social and Political Psychology and serves on the IACCP SPARK Grants Committee and as elected regional representative for Europe on the IACCP Executive Council.