My research examines the causes and consequences of social categorization, asking how we create and use categories to make sense of other people. Through the study of social categories, I investigate the low-level cognitive processes that function to maintain stereotypes, prejudices, and group inequality. I approach these questions with a variety of methods, including behavioural experiments, computational models, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging.
My current work is focused on understanding how social and structural motivations shape people’s attention to different information during the process of categorization.
For more information, see my website at https://suraiyaallidina.com/ or email me at allidina.1@osu.edu