Sirenia Sanchez
Research Interests
Social Psychology
Cultural appropriation
Racial/ethnic stereotypes
Sense of belonging
Risk perceptions
Education
MS in Social Psychology from Northwestern University
BA in Psychology and Communication from University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Presentation
Sánchez, S., & Perry, S. P. (2021, June). "I want to talk about my pain, not to debate": Do White people's perceptions of the harms of cultural appropriation differ from Black people's actual experiences?. Presented at the Department of Psychology’s Sneak Peek Data Blitz at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
+Ahmed, F., Sánchez, S., & Perry, S.P. (2021, April). What Does Cultural Appropriation Mean to You?: Examining Racial Differences in Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation. Poster presentation at the Midwestern Psychological Association Virtual Conference.
Sánchez, S., & Skinner, A.L. (2020, February). Can Catching Biases Be Stopped?: Buffering the Impact of Nonverbal Signals in Bias Spreading. Poster presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
Sánchez, S., *Wages, J. E., & Perry, S. P. (2019, June). For whom the risk matters: System-justifying tendencies drive gender and racial differences in risk perception. Presented at the Northwestern Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, Evanston, IL.