Beyond Binary Social Cognition Lab
Beyond Binary Social Cognition Lab
The Beyond Binary Social Cognition Lab conducts research that challenges norms and common assumptions that people hold about social categories (e.g., gender, race, sexual orientation, etc.), such as the assumption that gender is binary, that racial categories are discrete, or that everyone experiences sexual attraction. We draw from social, developmental, and cognitive psychology as well as feminist and LGBT studies to explore the implications of these and other assumptions and to characterize the experiences of people who defy assumptions about social categories.