David Silverman

My research uncovers the complex interwoven forces that create disparities in young people’s achievement, well-being, and access to economic opportunity in order to develop effective programming for reducing inequality. Of course, this is no simple task. Our lab’s work thus bridges a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, involving everything from laboratory experiments that examine how privilege groups maintain socioeconomic advantages in society to longitudinal partnership studies with schools across the U.S that support healthy teaching and learning. In these ways, our research is consciously designed to translate psychological science into real-world impact while expanding theoretical understandings of the identity-based and ecological processes that shape our world.