Lusine Grigoryan
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Profile
Biography
- 2023-present: Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology, University of York
- 2022: Visiting Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 2019-2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum
- 2017: Visiting PhD student, University of Sussex
- 2015-2019: PhD Social Psychology, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
- 2012-2015: Lecturer in Psychology, Higher School of Economics
- 2010-2016: Research fellow, Centre for Sociocultural Research, Higher School of Economics
- 2010-2012: MSc Psychology, Higher School of Economics
- 2006-2010: BSc Psychology, Higher School of Economics
Research
Overview
- Intergroup conflict and cooperation
- Prejudice, social categorization, stereotypes
- Social identity complexity and integration
- Values and morality
- Cross-cultural research and open science
Grants & Awards
| Year | Grant and Award |
|---|---|
| 2025 - 2030 | Many faces of prejudice: the “What”, the “Why”, and the “How” of inferences we make from membership in social groups. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (€1,709,681) |
| 2024 | Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award |
| 2023 - 2025 | (In)Alienable worth? The prevalence of cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face and their links to prosociality across the world (Templeton Foundation via Psychological Science Accelerator, $977,072) |
| 2023 | European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Early Career Award |
| 2021 – 2025 | Identity and prejudice in everyday interactions. German Science Foundation (DFG, €241,053) |
| 2021 | The role of shared morality in intergroup behaviour. EASP Seedcorn Research Grant (€2,737) |
| 2021 | Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Publication Prize |
| 2020 – 2021 | Replication study award for “Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence” (SCORE) project. Center for Open Science ($11,000) |
| 2014 – 2015 |
Evaluation of the country’s past as a predictor of attitudes towards outgroups. Russian Foundation for Humanities (≈ £15,000). |
Supervision
I would be happy to hear from potential PhD students interested in prejudice and discrimination, social identity, values and morality, or cross-cultural research. Please get in touch if this is you.
Publications
Selected publications
Grigoryan L., Easterbrook M., Smith P. [et al.] (2024). The social cure properties of groups across cultures: Groups provide more support but have stronger norms and are less curative in relationally immobile societies. Social Psychological and Personality Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241230847
Vlasceanu M., Doell K., [...] Grigoryan L., [...] & van Bavel J. (2024). Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries. Science Advances, 10(6). [BSPA Publication Award for Innovation in Behavioral Policy]
Grigoryan L., Jones H.B., Cohrs J.C., Boehnke K., Easterbrook M. (2023). Differentiating between belief-indicative and status-indicative groups improves predictions of intergroup attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(7), 1097–1112.
Hofmann W., Grigoryan L. (2023). The social psychology of everyday life. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 77-137.
Grigoryan L., Cohrs J.C., Boehnke K., van de Vijver A.J.R., Easterbrook M. (2022). Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(1), 34-52.
Full publications list
See Google Scholar or ResearchGate page for the full list of publications.
External activities
Overview
- Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Associate Editor
- IACCP Executive Council, elected regional representative for Europe
- IACCP SPARK Grants Committee member
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Contact details
@grigolus.bsky.social