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Lusine Grigoryan
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

   
2026-present Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of York
2023-2026 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology, University of York
2022 Visiting Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2019-2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum
2017 Visiting PhD student, University of Sussex
2015-2019 PhD Social Psychology, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
2012-2015 Lecturer in Psychology, Higher School of Economics
2010-2016 Research fellow, Centre for Sociocultural Research, Higher School of Economics
2010-2012 MSc Psychology, Higher School of Economics
2006-2010 BSc Psychology, Higher School of Economics

Research

Overview

  • Intergroup conflict and cooperation
  • Prejudice, social categorization, stereotypes
  • Social identity complexity and integration
  • Values and morality
  • Cross-cultural research and open science

Grants and Awards

Year Grant and Award
2025 - 2030

Many faces of prejudice: the “What”, the “Why”, and the “How” of inferences we make from membership in social groups. European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (€1,709,681).This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. [101161666- PREJUDICE])"

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2024 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award
2023 - 2025 (In)Alienable worth? The prevalence of cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face and their links to prosociality across the world (Templeton Foundation via Psychological Science Accelerator, $977,072)
2023 European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Early Career Award 
2021 – 2025 Identity and prejudice in everyday interactions. German Science Foundation (DFG, €241,053)
2021 The role of shared morality in intergroup behaviour. EASP Seedcorn Research Grant (€2,737)
2021 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Publication Prize
2020 – 2021 Replication study award for “Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence” (SCORE) project. Center for Open Science ($11,000)
2014 – 2015

Evaluation of the country’s past as a predictor of attitudes towards outgroups. Russian Foundation for Humanities (≈ £15,000).

 

Supervision

I would be happy to hear from potential PhD students interested in prejudice and discrimination, social identity, values and morality, or cross-cultural research. Please get in touch if this is you, with a brief description of the research project you have in mind and funding routes you are considering. 

Teaching

Undergraduate

Publications

Selected publications

 

Grigoryan L., [...] Nosek B.A. & Errington T.M. (2026). Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioral sciences. Nature, 652, 143-150."

Grigoryan L., Jones H.B., Cohrs J.C., Boehnke K., Easterbrook M. (2023). Differentiating between belief-indicative and status-indicative groups improves predictions of intergroup attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(7), 1097–1112.

Hofmann W., Grigoryan L. (2023). The social psychology of everyday life. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 68, 77-137.

Grigoryan L., Cohrs J.C., Boehnke K., van de Vijver A.J.R., Easterbrook M. (2022). Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(1), 34-52.

" Grigoryan L., Ponizovskiy V., Weissflog M.I., Osin E., Lickel B. (2025). Guilt, shame, and anti-war action in an authoritarian country at war. Political Psychology, 46(10), 167-184." 

Full publications list

See Google Scholar or ResearchGate page for the full list of publications.

External activities

Overview

  • Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Associate Editor
  • IACCP Executive Council, elected regional representative for Europe
  • IACCP SPARK Grants Committee member

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Contact details

Dr Lusine (Lucy) Grigoryan
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Department of Psychology
University of York
Room PS/C/206

Tel: 01904 321035

https://www.socolab.co.uk/