My research interests are a combination of social and clinical psychology looking at mental health disorders, attitudes, and group differences. Broadly, I would like to know more about the presentation of anxiety in different racial groups and how social factors may influence anxiety. My focus on anxiety extends to both non-clinical and clinical populations. With non-clinical groups I am interested in intergroup anxiety within the context of the contact hypothesis and its importance to prejudice reduction. Additionally, I would like to study the influence of stereotype and collective threat on academic performance and self-esteem in racial/ethnic minorities and women. With clinical groups, I am interested in understanding symptom differences of mental health disorders between African Americans and Caucasians. Namely, I would like to study the social and cultural factors that may influence differences in the presentation of social anxiety disorder.
Hopkins, P. D., & Shook, N. J. (2017). Development of an intergroup anxiety toward Muslims scale. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 61, 7-20. Hopkins, P. D., & Shook, N. J. (2017). A review of sociocultural factors that may underlie differences in African American and European American anxiety. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 49, 104-113. Shook, N. J., Hopkins, P. D., & Koech, J. (2016). The effect of intergroup contact on secondary group attitudes and social dominance orientation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 19, 328-342.
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