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Institution
University of Toronto
Current Position
Assistant Professor
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Brown University, 2001
Research Interests
 | Applied Social Psychology |
| Group Processes |
| Intergroup Relations |
| Prejudice/Stereotyping |
| Self/Identity |
| Social Cognition |
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Michael Inzlicht
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Division of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4
Canada
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Phone: (416) 208-4826
Fax: (416) 287-7642
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Michael Inzlicht explores how stereotypes and prejudice affect people. He seeks to understand how negative cultural beliefs affect the basic cognitive, emotional, and self-regulatory processes of individuals belonging to stigmatized groups. To better understand these processes, many of his studies use a social-neuroscience approach, which is characterized by the integration of biological and social-psychological methods, theories, and explanations. For example, current research demonstrates that the cultural marginalization of women in math and science-due to a supposed lack of innate ability and aptitude-can not only affect women's math and science performance but also affect their ability to control their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. Neuroimaging data (e.g. EEG/ERP measures) further suggest that math/science settings can leave women in a state of misregulation, whereby regions of their prefrontal cortex responds maladaptively. Dr. Inzlicht has had the good fortune of collaborating with scholars across the U.S. and the Netherlands and with his own graduate students at the University of Toronto. These collaborations have resulted in several interrelated lines of research, including an examination of the role of prejudice scripts in biasing the perception of facial emotions, an exploration of how self-control success and failures are mediated by internal self-vocalizations, and an investigation of the neural underpinnings of individual difference variables such as conscientiousness, neuroticism, and mindfulness.
 Journal Articles:
 Aronson, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2004). The ups and downs of attributional ambiguity: Stereotype vulnerability and the academic self-knowledge of African American students. Psychological Science, 15, 829-836.
- Ben-Zeev, T., Fein, S., & Inzlicht, M. (2005). Stereotype threat and arousal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 174-181.
- Derks, B., Inzlicht, M., & Kang, S. (2008). The neuroscience of stigma and stereotype threat. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 11, 163-181.
- Good, C., Aronson, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2003). Improving adolescents' standardized test performance: An intervention to reduce the effects of stereotype threat. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 24, 645-662.
- Hirsh, J. B., & Inzlicht, M. (2008). The devil you know: Neuroticism predicts neural response to uncertainty. Psychological Science, 19, 962-967.
- Inzlicht, M., Aronson, J., Good, C., & McKay, L. (2006). A particular resiliency to threatening environments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 323-336.
- Inzlicht, M., & Ben-Zeev, T. (2003). Do high-achieving female students underperform in private? The implications of threatening environments on intellectual processing. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 796-805.
- Inzlicht, M., & Ben-Zeev, T. (2000). A threatening intellectual environment: Why females are susceptible to experiencing problem-solving deficits in the presence of males. Psychological Science, 11, 365-371.
- Inzlicht, M., & Gutsell, J. N. (2007). Running on empty: Neural signals for self-control failure. Psychological Science, 18, 933-937.
- Inzlicht, M., Kaiser, C. R., & Major, B. (2008). The face of chauvinism: How prejudice expectations shape perceptions of facial affect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 758-766.
- Inzlicht, M., McGregor, I., Hirsh, J. B., & Nash, K. (in press). Neural markers of religious conviction. Psychological Science.
- Inzlicht, M., McKay, L., & Aronson, J. (2006). Stigma as ego depletion: How being the target of prejudice affects self-control. Psychological Science, 17, 262-269.
- Johns, M., Inzlicht, M., & Schmader, T. (2008). Stereotype threat and executive resource depletion: Examining the influence of emotion regulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 691-705.
Other Publications:
- Inzlicht, M., Aronson, J., & Mendoza-Denton, R. (in press). On being the target of prejudice: Educational implications. In F. Butera & J. Levine (Eds.), Coping with minority status: Responses to exclusion and inclusion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Inzlicht, M., & Good, C. (2006). How environments can threaten academic performance, self-knowledge, and sense of belonging. In S. Levin & C. van Laar (Eds.), Stigma and group inequality: Social psychological approaches (pp. 129-150). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
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