Taylor Swift is one of the biggest stars the world has seen. But what is it that makes a pop icon the focal point of an Arizona State University course on social psychology? Pop stars are more than ...

Personal identity links who we are, once were, and could become. Though seemingly fixed, identity can be modified. Indeed, identity transformation is sometimes necessary, even therapeutic—e.g., to ...

Loustau is a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Boston College, studying social identity, moral judgment, and intergroup bias. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and ...