Social Psychology, Intergroup Relations, Contact, Prejudice, Social Identity, Social Norms, Social Change, Acculturation, Intergroup Contact and Help, Collective Actions, Measurement and Methodology.

Supervisor of Postdoctoral positions
2017 Postdoctoral María Chayinska: “‘Change we can believe in’: How fostering beliefs about group malleability can contribute to conflict resolution in the South of Chile”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.
2015 Postdoctoral Gloria Jiménez-Moya: “How confronting prejudice affects social relationships”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.
2014 Postdoctoral Paula Luengo. Postdoctoral project funded by the Centre of Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, COES (FONDAP).
2014 Postdoctoral Monica Gerber: “Justifying the use of violence committed by and against Mapuche people in Chile: the role of procedural justice, legitimacy, and identity in shaping attitudes towards intergroup violence”. Postdoctoral project funded by FONDECYT.

Thesis advisor for Graduate Students
2019 Thesis Project to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Pending. Student: Victor Jiménez.
2019 Thesis Project to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Pending. Student: Claudia Amo.
2017 Thesis to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Predictors of positive and negative intergroup contact. Student: Camila Salazar.
2016 Thesis to obtain the degree of PhD in Psychology at P. Catholic University of Chile. Title: Prejudice Reduction towards gay men and lesbian women through imagined contact in simple of heterosexual youngsters. Student: Fabiola Gómez.
2014 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Education, Faculty of Education. P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Design and evaluation of a curricular intervention of an educative program aimed to Foster the promotion of intergroup friendship among indigenous and non-indigenous children in Chile. Student: Cecilia Inostroza.
2014 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Education, Faculty of Education. P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Design and evaluation of the implementation of an educational intervention aimed to Foster the promotion of intergroup friendship among indigenous and non-indigenous children in Chile. Student: Angélica Gómez.
2011 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Chile as a host society: intergroup emotions, representations and relative fit of acculturative strategies as predictors of prejudice toward Peruvian immigrants. Student: Bárbara Cohen
2011 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Nationalism, perceived intergroup conflict and prejudice toward Peruvian immigrants: the meditational role of intergroup threat, anxiety and empathy. Student: Daniel Miranda.
2009 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: University students’ participation in organization of Social voluntarism: psychological and socialization antecedents. Student: María Paz Cadena.
2004 to 2008 Thesis to obtain the degree of Doctor in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Evaluation of a model of intergroup attitudes in an acculturative context: perspectives from the Latin-American migrants and the Chilean Society. Student: David Sirlopú.
2004 to 2006 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Analysis of the attitudes and stereotypes of Chileans towards the government and citizens of the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the invasion to Irak. Student: Carla Yovane
2004 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: The relationship between intergroup emotions (collective guilt and shame) and reparation attitudes in political and ethnical scenarios. Student: Belky Vargas Ponce
2004 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: The role of the contact hypothesis in the promotion of positive interethnic attitudes in high school students from the IX Region. Student: Johana Contreras
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Contact Hypothesis and norms in the reduction of prejudice. Student: Andrés Millar.
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Implicit and explicit children’s attitudes towards the Mapuche ethnicity. Student: Gabriela Ordóñez.
2001-2003 Thesis to obtain the degree of Master in Psychology, Psychology Department, P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Title: Implicit and explicit attitudes towards disabled people. Student: David Sirlopú.

Receives foreign undergraduate and graduate students in research activities in Chile

2008-2019 Receives a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Masi Noor; Linda Tipp, Sam Person, Sharon Cohen, Sabina Cehajic). Receives a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (Manisha Gupta, Rachel Steel, Daniel Chapman). Receives Kristiane Kaufman, from Bielefeld University, Germany and graduate student Dana Indreica from Kolenzx-Landau, Germany. Receives Master Student Tabea Hässler University of Colon, Germany, and supervises her Master Thesis. Receives graduate students Juan Diego García, from Universidad de Granada, Spain and Elaine Smith from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
2004-2008 Annually receives, as part of an international collaborative program funded by the British Council, a graduate student from the Psychology Department at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (Masi Noor, Sharon Cohen, Sabina ?ehaji? and Sam Pherson). Performs with them research activities (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).
2006 Receives an undergraduate student from the Psychology Department at Dresden University, Germany (Caroline Roggendorf). Performs with her research activity (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).
2002-2004 Receives, as part of an international collaborative program funded by CONICYT, undergraduate and graduate students from the Psychology Department at Bielefeld University, Germany (graduate student, Heidi Mescher, undergraduate student, Friederike Habelan). Performs with them research activities (study design, data collection, data processing, and publishing).