Monica Rose Biernat

Dr. Biernat joined KU’s Department of Psychology in 1992. She has been a Research Visitor at the University of Cambridge, an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Visiting Scholar at University of Washington and University of British Columbia. 

Dr. Biernat is a social psychologist with research interests in social judgment and judgment standards, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination. Her research, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute for Mental Health, among others, primarily focuses on how stereotypes affect judgments of and behavior toward individual members of stereotyped groups. 

She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, and is a member of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. She has received the Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association, the McNair Mentor of the Year Award from the McNair Scholars Program, and the Person Memory Interest Group Thomas M. Ostrom Award for outstanding lifetime contributions to theory and research in the field of social cognition.

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