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         Alvin Ty Law
  • BS, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003
  • Advisor: Kip Williams
  • Send e-mail to law@psych.purdue.edu
  • Mailing Address:
      • Purdue University
      Psychological Sciences Building   
      703 Third Street
      West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2081
  • Phone: (765) 494-6892 (leave message)
  • Office: PSYC 2186

Research Interests

My research focuses on ostracism (social exclusion), which is ignoring and excluding a person or group by another person or a group.  I am particularly interested in using Virtual Reality as the vehicle to explore the minimal conditions necessary to detect ostracism.  I am also investigating rejection amongst marginalized groups such as homosexuals and people with HIV.

 Publications/Presentations

Williams, K. D., & Law, A. T. (in press). Bystander effect. To appear in R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
 
Chen, Z., Law, A. T., & Williams, K. D. (in progress). Protected by the cloak of uncertainty: the role of uncertainty in immediate reactions to social exclusion. To appear in Arkin, R. M., Oleson, K. C., & Carroll, P. J. (Eds.), The Uncertain Self: A handbook of Perspectives from Social and Personality Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Lehmiller, J. J., Law, A. T., & Tormala, T. T. (2007, May). The effect of self-affirmation on sexual prejudice. Paper submitted to the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Law, A. T. & Williams, K. D.  (2007, April). Affirming familial relationships increases anti-gay prejudice. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Social Psychologists of Indiana, West Lafayette, IN.

Law, A. T., & Williams, K. D. (2007, January). Effects of mental visualization and degraded presentation on detection and influence of ostracism. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN.

Williams, K. D., & Law, A. T. (2006, October). Searching for the minimal conditions to detect ostracism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Philadelphia, PA.