Monica Rose Biernat

Dr. Biernat is a social psychologist with research interests in social judgment and judgment standards, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. Her primary focus is on how stereotypes affect judgments of and behavior toward individual members of stereotyped groups. In 2025 she received the Person Memory Interest Group (PMIG) Thomas M. Ostrom Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to theory and research in the field of social cognition. She has been a visiting researcher or scholar at several institutions, including research visitor at University of Cambridge, honorary fellow at University of Wisconsin, visiting scholar at University of Washington and visiting scholar at University of British Columbia. 

Learn more about Monica Biernat on the Department of Psychology website.