IQS-Harvard Talks | Conversations with Mina Cikara

3rd lecture of the IQS-Harvard Talks series “Reference dependence in coalitions. How do we know to which groups we belong? How do we assign others to groups?” by Mina Cikara, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard Intergroup Neuroscience Lab, where she is internationally recognized for her influential research on intergroup relations, empathy, and prejudice.

Her work explores how the mind and brain change when social perception shifts from “me and you” to “us and them”, integrating social psychology with cognitive and affective neuroscience to explain how group membership can disrupt empathy, foster dehumanization, and contribute to discrimination, conflict, and harm.