Lauri Hyers

Lauri Hyers
  • Professor of Psychology
  • Department: Psychology
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: LHyers@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Social Psychology PhD with minor in Sociology Chapman University, California Psychology B.A.

Research Interests

discriminationactivismintergroup relationsgender socializationsocial justice

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: Yes

If you are eligible for federal work study, you can work in this lab and earn wages through the work study program.

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: Yes

There is 410 and 510 course credit available for research in this lab.

Volunteer Research Positions Available: Yes

Contact me about volunteering.

Biography

My overlapping teaching and scholarship concerns discrimination, activism, diversity, intergroup relations, group identity, gender socialization, mentoring and rites of passage, utopian communities, climate change and coping with dystopian futures, and animals and social justice. Taking a social psychological approach to these topics, I incorporate quantitative, qualitative (especially using diaries), and mixed methods research designs.

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-2925

List of Publications

  • Clerico, J., & Hyers, L. L. (2023). College students’ emotional responses to social distancing protocols during the Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative diary study. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 1-16.
  • Walmer, J. & Hyers, L. L. (2022). The resilience of adolescent girls: An archival diary study of the protective advantages of ordinary adolescence in the Holocaust-era diaries of Anne Frank and Renia Spiegel. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 15(2), 375-389.
  • Hyers, L. L. & Walmer, J. (2021). Ensuring the continued success of diary research in higher education. In X. Cao & E. Henderson (Eds.). Higher Education Diary Research, London: United Kingdom: Routledge.
  • Hipple, E., Soltis, D., & Hyers, L. L. (2020). Queering study abroad: Web-based outreach to LGBTQ+ university students by study abroad programs, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 32(2), 175-186.
  • Hyers, L. L. (2018). Diary methods: Understanding qualitative research. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press. Available at: ds-9780190256692?cc=us&langhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/diary-metho=en&

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