Dorainne J. Green, PhD

Dorainne J. Green, PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She received her PhD in social psychology from Northwestern University in 2016. Her research interests center broadly on understanding and addressing the factors that contribute to social inequality by focusing on social identity threat—instances where individuals feel like one or more of their social identities may be devalued or disrespected. In particular, her work investigates how threats to social identity including group-based discrimination and stereotype threat shape cognitive, psychological, behavioral, and physiological outcomes that, in turn, have implications for disparities in many life domains including education and health. A primary interest of her research is the identification of strategies to help people manage the challenges of navigating diverse spaces, including those most likely to trigger social identity threat.