Professor Castano has research interests in social identity processes, intergroup relations, Terror Management Theory, collective responsibility, group perception, and dehumanization.

Primary Interests:

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Causal Attribution
Culture and Ethnicity
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Person Perception
Political Psychology
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Causal Attribution
Culture and Ethnicity
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations

Person Perception
Political Psychology
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Castano, E. (2004). In case of death, cling to the ingroup. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 1-10.
Castano, E., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2006). Not quite human: Infra-humanization as a response to collective responsibility for intergroup killing. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 804-818.
Castano, E., Sacchi, S., & Gries, P. H. (2003). The perception of the other in international relations: Evidence for the polarizing effect of entitativity. Political Psychology, 24, 449-468.
Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Bourguignon, D. (2003). We are one and I like it: The impact of entitativity on social identification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 735-754.
Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Bourguignon, D., & Seron, E. (2002). Who may enter? The impact of in-group identification on in-group/out-group categorization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 315-322.
Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Paladino, M. P., & Sacchi, S. (2002). I belong, therefore, I exist: Ingroup identification, ingroup entitativity, and ingroup bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 135-143.
Coull, A., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Castano, E., Paladino, M. P., & Leemans, V. (2001). Protecting the ingroup: Motivated allocation of cognitive resources in the presence of threatening ingroup members. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 4, 327-339.
Sindic, D., Castano, E., & Reicher, S. D. (2001). Les dynamiques identitaires et le processus d'intégration européenne. Etudes Internationales, XXXII, 425-454.

Other Publications:

Castano, E. (2004). European identity: A social psychological perspective. In R. H. Herrmann, T. Risse, & M. B. Brewer (Eds.), Transnational Identities: Becoming European in the EU. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Castano, E. (2003). On the advantages of reifying the ingroup. In V. Y. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The Psychology of Group Perception: Contributions to the Study of Homogeneity, Entitivity, and Essentialism. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Castano, E., Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Paladino, M. P. (2004). Transcending oneself through social identification. In J. Greenberg, T. Pyszczynski & K. Sander (Eds.), Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 305-321). New York: Guilford.
Yzerbyt, V. Y., Castano, E., Leyens, J.-Ph., & Paladino, M. P. (2000). The phenomenology of the ingroup: The interplay of identification, entitativity and overexclusion. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 11, pp. 257-295). Chichester, England: Wiley.

Courses Taught:

Fundamentals in Social Psychology
Methods of Inquiry
Social Psychology

Fundamentals in Social Psychology
Methods of Inquiry

Social Psychology

Emanuele Castano
Department of Psychology
New School for Social Research
80 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
United States

Phone: (212) 229-5727, ext. 3098
Fax: (212) 989-0846