Kareem Johnson, Ph.D.

Email:  kareem.johnson@temple.edu
Phone: (215) 204-1914

Interests: Understanding how emotional states can alter how people of a different race are perceived. Exploring the use of induced states of positive emotions to eliminate racial biases in face recognition. The interaction of emotion and perceptual breadth and finding new methods for using psychophysiology to measure emotion.

Kareem Johnson , Ph.D. is an assistant Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Dr. Johnson's current research interests are the emotional, cognitive, and psychophysiological factors that may influence how people perceive and respond to outgroup members. His research has focused on how an individual's positive emotional state can later how members of different races are perceived, categorized, and remembered.  His research lab utilizes psychophysiological recordings and measures to examine how emotional and physiological states can alter social perception, particularly for targets that may be stigmatized as a function of race, culture, disability, or sexual orientation.