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RISEUP

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THE RISEUP VISION

To create a more equitable world for all people.

THE RISEUP MISSION

To provide scientific evidence that will improve access to legal, educational, and public health resources for marginalized populations.

RISEUP Values + Goals

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Research in Social Equity is a broad spectrum lab run by Dr. Stephanie Wright (social psychology, NC University) and Dr. Laura Oramas (developmental psychology, Florida International University). As such, research concerns cover a range of topics we both care about as well as some brought to us by students that are applicable to the goals of the lab. These include, but are in no way limited to, factors affecting collegiate performance, sexual assault and interpersonal violence, capital mitigation, gender differences in capital sentencing, black women’s perceptions of their place in the BLM movement, critical thinking and the integrity of the American voting process, and revenge porn.

In addition to the above, both of us are first-generation college students. In an era when to be a first-gen student is to be both lauded and scrutinized and as faculty at an open access institution, we take our obligations to our students very seriously. We were each invited as undergraduates in psychology to join research labs and credit those experiences as altering our course of academic development. Understanding from both personal experience and the literature that engaging undergraduate students in research is a high impact practice, we both worked with colleagues during graduate school to run undergraduate labs and, as faculty, have established and sustained them in our institutions. It is with great pleasure that we welcome new students of promise into the RISEUP lab and include them in our work as well as shepherd them through their own. Our students enjoy the opportunity to work on projects that have real world significance. They are free to explore even the craziest of ideas without concern for class grades, and they find their contributions meaningful to the group and - often - to the heart of a project, impacting design and development. These collaborations wake RISEUP students to the passion of research and to their abilities to alter the course of culture.

As a final word, we were fortunate to work with local law enforcement in the 2022-2023 academic year in an ongoing series of studies on police responses to sexual assault crimes. It is our intention to continuing building partnerships with external agencies where possible and mutually beneficial. Please email or telephone if you are interesting in working together on idea you may have.

For all of the above reasons, we are pleased to invite you to see a bit of what we’re working on.

About RISEUP

2024 GGC and RISEUP graduate Jazz  Florence.

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Current Researchers

  • Professor, Social

  • Assistant Professor, Developmental

  • Professor, Evolutionary Neuroscience

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior Psychology Major

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • UNG Graduate

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Sophomore, Psychology Major +

    English Minor

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Sophomore, Psychology Major

  • GGC Graduates: Ashten Allison | StephanietBibiano | Joanna Boes | Heidi Bolte | Laura Davis | Lucia Nodarse Dominguez | Jazz Florence | D’Laya Harris | Cameron Kelly | Zachary Lakebrink | Paloma Garcia-Perez | Thomas McMullin | Amabel Rodriguez | Kimberly Roney | Leslie Trejo-Raiael | Diana Vargas | Jasmine Zuniga-Alvarez

Interested in joining the lab? Learn how here.

RISEUP Co-Leader Dr. Laura Oramas and student researchers Jazz Florence,

D’Laya Harris, Leslie Trejo-Rangel, and Ashten Allison withSchool of Business

Dean Tyler Yu at the Annual BEAR Conference after a winning presentation.

 

RISEUP grads Heidi Bolte and Thomas McMullin examine data for the paygap study.

Current + Recent Research

  • Use of the two-year sexual assault study to create a best practices manual and test piloting with local law enforcement agencies.

  • Literature suggests female law enforcement officers may have less compassion for women reporting sexual assault than their male counterparts. This difference suggests some dissonance reduction due to motivation to control life outcomes, (e.g., if the victim is somehow to blame and I am unlike the victim, then I am not likely to be assaulted). That is, simply wearing a badge doesn't protect female officers from the effects of such phenomena as just world belief. This study aims to look at female jurors in a simulated rape case to see if the affective and behavioral responses seen previously in female law enforcement translate to the courtroom.

  • A broader view of Philips and Carstensen's classic study of suicide contagion. Is the Werther Effect a special case of a more nuanced phenonemon?

  • Creation of a broad measure of attitudes about women's involvement in the legal system.

  • Deep Fake Revenge Porn | Pay Equiy in Academia | Recommended Police Procedures in Response to a Simulated Sexual Assault | Student Success in an Open Access Institution