Kiara Sanchez

Kiara Sanchez

PhD Candidate

Stanford University

Welcome!

I am a social psychology PhD student at Stanford University working primarily with Dr. Greg Walton. I am a member of the Dweck-Walton lab (PIs: Carol Dweck & Greg Walton) and Race & Social Inequality lab (PIs: Jennifer Eberhardt & Claude Steele). Before coming to Stanford I received a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Rice University, where I worked with Dr. Mikki Hebl.

Interests

  • Social Psychology
  • Intergroup Friendship
  • Race Talk
  • Interventions
  • Identity Safety

Education

  • PhD in Psychology, in progress

    Stanford University

  • BA in Psychology and Sociology, 2016

    Rice University

Research

Classroom Race Talk & Parent-teacher Trust

Do White and Black parents trust teachers to talk about race? Does this trust influence teachers’ decisions to talk about race?
Last updated on May 21, 2020

Conversations about Race-Related Experiences

How do cross-race friends talk about their race-related experiences? What are the consequences?
Last updated on May 21, 2020

Publications

God as a White man: A psychological barrier to conceptualizing Black people and women as leadership worthy.

In the United States, God is commonly conceptualized as the omnipotent and omniscient entity that created the universe, and as a White …

Children's Intergroup Relations and Attitudes

The existence of warm, intimate, supportive, and egalitarian relationships between members of differing social outgroups is likely, at …

Teaching

I have been a Teaching Assistant for the following classes at Stanford:

  • Psychology of Scarcity
  • Introduction to Psychology
  • Self and Society: Introduction to Social Psychology (head TA)
  • Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
  • Intergroup Communication

I have been a Head Instructor for the following classes at Stanford:

  • Introduction to Social Psychology

I have guest lectured in the following classes at Stanford:

  • Cultural Psychology

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