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Maureen Alyson Craig CV

Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
CV

Overview


Maureen Craig is a social psychologist in the Psychology & Neuroscience department. She was previously an Assistant and Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU, prior to joining Duke. She leads the Diversity and Social Processes Lab, a research group that conducts research that seeks to understand how people navigate an increasingly diverse and often inequitable social world. Dr. Craig’s work investigates how diversity, inequality, and discrimination shape people’s attitudes and relations with people from other social groups, policy preferences, and support for social action.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience · 2024 - Present Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published September 25, 2024
Four Newly Promoted or Hired Faculty Named Langford Lecturers
Published April 15, 2024
Today’s Faculty Reflect on a Century of Scholars
Published January 4, 2024
Highlighting Racial Health Disparities Can Spark Support for Action

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Recent Publications


Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans

Journal Article Social Problems · March 28, 2026 AbstractRising anti-Asian racism and the recent police killings of unarmed Black people have called attention to how Asian and Black Americans experience racism and how they perceive one another. Using da ... Full text Cite

Lay beliefs of privilege: Consequences of the invisible knapsack.

Journal Article Journal of experimental psychology. General · March 2026 Recent widespread social movements (e.g., Occupy) stress the importance of dismantling societal privilege-group-based advantages such as White privilege or class privilege. Although research shows that recognizing privilege can increase advantaged group me ... Full text Cite

Health-focused frames mobilize Americans to action to address LGBTQ inequality.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · February 2026 "More than 1 in 8 LGBTQ people live in states where doctors can refuse to treat them." This headline describes a flurry of laws passed in 2025 allowing doctors to refuse treatment of LGBTQ patients based on personal beliefs. This and other laws like it lim ... Full text Cite
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Education


Northwestern University · 2014 Ph.D.
Northwestern University · 2010 M.S.
Purdue University · 2008 B.A.