I am currently a graduate student in the Social Psychology program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I am in my third year in the program. I completed my Master's thesis, entitled "Examining Moral Conflict as a Form of Prejudice", in the Summer of 2008. 

I have also completed a minor program of study in Quantitative Methods. My interests in this area are advanced multivariate techniques for data analysis such as SEM, HLM, MANOVA, factor analysis, and others.

I am originally from Wisconsin and received my Bachelor of Science with majors in Psychology and Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2004.

My main research interests are in the areas of morality and intergroup conflict and investigating the respective roles of social identity and threat in intergroup conflict. I am also interested in political behavior and social cognition, specifically focusing on voting decisions, attributions of others' behavior, information searching, and the effects of emotion on all of these processes. Both of these projects have manuscripts in preparation currently.

My primary teaching interests include Social Psychology, Quantitative Methodology and Statistical Inference, and Research Methods

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Contact Information:

Office: Tobin Hall, 633

Office Hours: by appointment in Tobin 633

Phone: (413) 545-0292

email: mtparker@psych.umass.edu

Mailing Address:

Michael Parker

Department of Psychology

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tobin Hall

135 Hicks Way

Amherst, MA 01003

Links:

UMass Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Association for Psychological Science

Social Psychology Network