Joseph wellman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Dr. Joseph Wellman joined the University of Mississippi’s Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Maine and completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Culture, Emotion, and Race at Wesleyan University. Prior to joining the faculty at UM, he was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino where he received an NSF ADVANCE grant to address issues of diversity in promotion, tenure, and hiring. His work focuses on how being the target of stigma affects behaviors, well-being, and performance. Much of this work explores factors that may influence an individual’s response to discrimination, bias, and intergroup interactions (e.g., system-legitimizing beliefs, group identification, zero-sum beliefs, perceived sigma, etc.). His research has been published in leading social psychology journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Psychology of Men and Masculinities.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: Group Identification, Sexism, Sexual Prejudice, Ingroup Discrimination, Collective Action, LGBT Bias, Masculinity Threat.