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Colin Wayne Leach

Colin Wayne Leach

Title: Associate Professor


Departmental Program: Social

E-mail: colin.leach@uconn.edu

Office: BOUS 172

Office Phone: (860) 486-6260

Web site: http://leach.socialpsychology.org/

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:
  • The emotional experience of the social comparisons involved in (individual and group) status, especially pride, guilt, anger, envy, and schadenfreude.
  • Morality, self-representation, and self-evaluation.
  • Group identity and inter-group relations.

Courses:

Undergraduate Graduate
  • Social Psychology
  • General Psychology II
  • Stereotyping and Prejudice

 

Representative Publications:
  • Books
    • Tiedens, L. Z. & Leach, C. W. (2004) (Eds.). The Social Life of Emotions. New York: Cambridge University Press.
    • Gabaccia, D. & Leach, C. W. (2004) (Eds.) Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
  • Articles
    • Leach, C.W. & Spears, R. (2008). “A vengefulness of the impotent”: The pain of in-group inferiority and schadenfreude toward successful out-groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 1383-1396.
    • Leach, C.W., van Zomeren, M., Zebel, S., Vliek, M., Pennekamp, S.F., Doosje, B. Ouwerkerk, J.P., and Spears, R. (2008). Group-level self-definition and self-investment: A hierarchical (multi-component) model of in-group Identification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 144-165.
    • Iyer, A. & Leach, C.W. (2008). Emotion in inter-group relations. European Review of Social Psychology, 19, 86-125.
    • Leach, C.W., Ellemers, N., & Barreto, M. (2007). Group virtue: The importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 93, 234-249.
    • Leach, C.W., Iyer, A. & Pedersen, A. (2006). Anger and guilt about in-group advantage explain the willingness for political action. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 1232-1245.
    • Leach, C.W. & Smith, H.J. (2006). By whose standard? The affective implications of ethnic minorities’ comparisons to ethnic minority and majority referents. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 747-760.
    • van Zomeren, M., Spears, R., Fischer, A., & Leach, C.W. (2004). Put your money where your mouth is! Explaining collective action tendencies through group-based anger and group efficacy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 87, 649-664.
    • Iyer, A., Leach, C.W. & Crosby, F. (2003) White guilt and racial compensation: The benefits and limits of self-focus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 117-129.
    • Leach, C. W., Spears, R., Branscombe, N., & Doosje, B. (2003). Malicious pleasure: schadenfreude at the suffering of another group. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 932–943.
Other:
  • Extramural Service
    • Associate Editor. European Journal of Social Psychology (2009- )
    • Consulting Editor, Social Psychology and Personality Compass (2007- )
    • Consulting Editor, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2006- )
    • Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (2003- )
    • Consulting Editor, European Journal of Social Psychology (2003-05, 2007-08)
    • Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Social Issues (2000-04)
    • Social Science Research Council, International Migration Program Committee (2000-02).
    • National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship Committee (1999, 2000).
  • Affiliations
    • International Research Training Group: Conflict and cooperation between social groups (Belgium, Germany, England).
    • Social Psychological Research into Racism and Multiculture, London School of Economics, London, England.
    • Center for Research on Group Processes, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
    • Center for Research in Self and Identity, University of Southampton, Southampton, England.
    • European Association of Social Psychology
    • Society of Experimental Social Psychology
    • Society for Personality & Social Psychology