Crystal Shackleford

Crystal Shackleford is a psychologist at the Department of Psychology, Yale University, whose research addresses intergroup relations, religious cognition, and the social psychology of conflict. Shackleford has examined how thinking about God shapes attitudes toward religious outgroups, including work conducted across multiple cultural contexts such as Fiji and Israel, and research on meta-perceptions between Palestinians and Israelis. Additional work by Shackleford investigates stigma-based solidarity, collective resistance to ethno-nationalism, and the conditions under which political alliances form or break down. Shackleford has also published on attitudes toward ethnic and religious diversity in the United States, folk theories of gender, and the psychological dimensions of self-sacrifice in human conflict.