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.