I am a social psychology professor at Austin College in Sherman, TX. Welcome to my webpage.

Years ago Rodney King asked, “Can we all just get along?” More than two decades later relationships between various groups still can be fraught with tension, hostility or anxiety. What does the social science research say about these issues? For my perspective, click this link to my TEDxAustinCollege talk “Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt? And Who Shouldn’t?”