{"id":499,"date":"2023-01-23T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/?page_id=499"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:26:47","slug":"faculty-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/faculty-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Dr. Luis M. Rivera<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Professor, Department of Psychology<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director, Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition (RISC) Lab<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email: <a href=\"mailto:luis@psychology.rutgers.edu\">luis@psychology.rutgers.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Phone: 973-353-5995<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-CV-2015-present-for-website.pdf\">Dr. Rivera&#8217;s CV<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-790 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/risclab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/906\/2025\/01\/Luis-Rivera-pic-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research and Background:<\/strong> I joined Rutgers University-Newark in fall 2010. My experimental research investigates the implicit social cognitive processes that underlie stereotyped attitudes and how these processes shape the self, identity, and health of stigmatized individuals. My research elucidates the contextual and motivational factors that shape individuals\u2019 stereotyped-based cognition about themselves and others that occur outside of awareness, control, and intention. My research has implications for the development and maintenance of stigmatized individuals\u2019 social identities, the expression of implicit (and explicit) stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, and the presence and persistence of health disparities between members of socially advantaged and disadvantaged groups.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Dr.\u00a0Bonita M. Veysey<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Faculty Researcher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ph.D, University at Albany<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Email address:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:veysey@andromeda.rutgers.edu\">veysey@andromeda.rutgers.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Work phone #:\u00a0<\/strong>(973) 353-1929<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research and Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a professor in the School of Criminal Justice. My collaboration with Dr. Luis Rivera was spurred, to a large degree, by a shared interest in understanding how individuals assume and shed explicit and implicit negative (in this case, criminal) identities. This represents a new direction in answering fundamental questions in the field of criminology. In addition to my collaborative work in the RISC Lab, my research foci also include understanding desistance through narratives of reform, evaluations of criminal justice policies and practices (particularly those related to behavioral health), and the effects of psychological trauma on women\u2019s recovery from substance use\/abuse and mental health conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My current projects in the RISC Lab focus on: (1) implicit criminal identities and how these identities shape involvement in the justice system, (2) how close relationships with criminal others may influence non-criminal persons implicit self-attribution of criminal identity, and (3) how implicit victim experience may predict revictimization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Luis M. 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