James Peabody is a graduate student studying experimental social psychology. He is interested in using the social identity approach to examine group processes and intergroup relations in U.S. politics and other areas. He is also interested in using multivariate statistical approaches to examine these phenomena, especially structural equation modeling. Additionally, he has a passion for developing skillsets related to statistical computing for data analysis and visualization, especially with R.
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Expected completion 2026
Texas Tech University
M.A. in Social Psychology, 2021
Humboldt State University
B.A. in Psychology, 2021
Humboldt State Unversity
Peabody, J., Gaffney, A. M. (2020). Will work for belongingness: Prototypicality, threat, uncertainty, and collective action willingness. Oral presentation at the 2020 Western Psychological Association Conference
Peabody, J., Foster, A., Sanchez, K. (2020). Barely seeing red: Effects of cognitive disfluency and color primes on analytic reasoning. Poster presentation at the 2020 Western Psychological Association Conference
Peabody, J., Beaulieu, J., Mendez, J., Hackett, J., & Gaffney, A. M. (2020). Relationships between extreme ideology, integrated threat, and out-group evaluations. Poster presented at the 2020 Society for the Personality and Social Psychology Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Peabody, J., Sherburne, B., Hackett, J., & Gaffney, A. (2019). Relationships between prototypicality, integrated threat, and outgroup evaluations. Poster presented at the Society for the Psychological Studies of Social Issues Conference in San Diego, CA.
McLaughlin, C., Foster, A., Peabody, J., & Sanchez, K. (2019). The role of encoding specificity in incidental learning: Implications for explicit and implicit false memories. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference in Pasadena, CA.
Ashworth, L.F., Rodriguez, J., Peabody, J., Tarin, A., Byers, S.M., Sherburne, B., Wagoner, J.M., & Gaffney, A.M. (2019). Exploratory analyses of the self and group: Entitativity. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association Conference in Pasadena, CA.
Arroyo, M., Baeza, C., Derry, D., Nordstrom, S., & Peabody, J. (2017). Effects of loving-kindness meditation and time of day on positive emotion. Poster presented at Palomar College Psychology Research Fair in San Marcos, CA.