Laura Wallace

Principal Researcher Laura Wallace

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Education

PhD, Social Psychology, Ohio State University
BA, Organizational Communications, Xavier University

Background

Laura works as a Principal Researcher with Emma Levine. She earned her PhD and MA in Social Psychology from Ohio State University. She earned her BA from Xavier University, majoring in Organization Communications, with Business, Psychology, and Environmental Studies minors.

Research Interests

Laura’s research program integrates perspectives from the attitudes/persuasion, trust, intergroup relations, morality, and motivation literatures to provide theoretical and practical insights that help individuals, scholars, and practitioners understand how to effectively create change in their personal lives, organizations, and society. 

To date, her work has centered on three major questions:

  1. How do knowledge and discussions of history perpetuate or disrupt institutional distrust and disadvantage?
  2. How do perceptions of others’ biases influence trust and persuasion?
  3. How can people and organizations foster growth?

Selected Publications and Presentations

Wallace, L. E., Bruno, R., Kim, Y., & Levine, E. E. (under review). Perpetuating disadvantage and distrust: When leaders abandon victims due to concerns about distrust. (job market paper)

Wallace, L. E.*, Reeves, S. L.*, & Spencer, S. J. (2024). Celebrating organizational history triggers social identity threat among Black Americans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(16), e2313878121

Wallace, L. E., Murphy, M. C., Hernandez-Colmenares, A., & Fujita, K. (invited revision). When do mindsets predict interest in an organizational culture of growth vs. genius? A mindset certainty perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Wallace, L. E., LaCosse, J., Murphy, M. C., Hernandez-Colmenares, A., Edwards, L. J., & Fujita, K. (2023).Matching and mismatching personal and organizational mindsets: Effects on belonging and organizational interest. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(12), 3526-3545.

Wallace, L. E., Craig, M. A., & Wegener, D. T. (2024). Biased, but expert: Trade-offs in how stigmatized versus non-stigmatized advocates are perceived and consequences for persuasion. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 10, 104519

Wallace, L. E., Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (2020). When sources honestly provide their biased opinion: Bias as a distinct perception with independent effects on credibility and persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(3), 439-453.

Wallace, L. E., Wegener, D. T., & Petty, R. E. (2020). Influences of source bias that differ from source untrustworthiness: When flip-flopping is more and less surprising. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(4), 603–616.

For a complete list of published and in-prep work, see Laura's CV at http://laura-e-wallace.com/