Amber Gaffney
Principal Investigator
Amber M. Gaffney (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University) is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her program of research focuses on social identity and categorization processes in social influence. She researches the ways in which both marginal and prototypical group members and those traditionally lacking the ability to exert influence (e.g., minority groups, outgroup members) can change and extremitize group norms and political identities. Amber currently serves as an associate editor for Group Processes and Intergroup Relations and on the editorial boards for Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy and the Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology.
Teaching: Social Psychology (Undergraduate), Advanced Social Psychology (Graduate), Social Influence (Undergraduate), Professional Development Seminar (Graduate)
