Jay Jackson

Jay Jackson received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from Purdue University West Lafayette in 1996 and joined Purdue University Fort Wayne’s Department of Psychology two years later. He teaches elementary psychology, introduction to social psychology, introduction to personality theory, history of psychology, and advanced research in personality and social psychology. He works with several undergraduate research assistants each semester through his Intergroup Relations Lab. He primarily studies intergroup relations, social dilemmas, and the psychology of values, beliefs, and morality. 

Areas of Interest: intergroup relations, social dilemmas, social identity, intergroup contact, person-situation models, pseudoscientific beliefs, cognitive biases, moral judgments of nonhuman animals