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Benet Martínez, Verònica
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ICREA Research Professor at UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Social Sciences
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I am an ICREA professor at Pompeu Fabra University’s Department of Social and Political Sciences, where I teach and conduct research in the areas of cultural and social-personality psychology and direct the Multicultural Identity Lab (http://biculturalism.ucr.edu/home.html).
Previous to joining ICREA, I held permanent faculty positions (Assistant to Associate Professor with tenure) at the University of California at Riverside (2003-2010) and at the University of Michigan (1998-2002). I received my B.S. in psychology from the ‘Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona’ (1989), my Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from the University of California at Davis (1995), and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s Institute for Personality and Social Research (1996-97).
Relying on survey and experimental methodology, I study how how multiple cultures are internalized and negotiated within the individual, and how this affects self-concept and identity
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Research Interest
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My research program has 3 main lines of inquiry:
(1) Multi-/Biculturalism: Development and maintenance of bicultural identity; Individual differences in bicultural identity structure; Cognitive and social consequences of biculturalism; Biculturalism and bilingualism.
(2) Culture and personality: Indigenous and imported personality taxonomies; Interplay of cultural values and personality in predicting adjustment; Bilingualism and personality description.
(3) Cross-cultural research methodology: Cultural and linguistic issues in theory/instrument development and adaptation across cultures; cultural experimental methods.
All in all, my research deals with the following large questions: How do culture and ethnicity shape our identities and personalities? As people of varying cultures and ethnicities, how are we different and how are we alike? How do individuals who have internalized more than one culture develop a cohesive multicultural identity?
I approach each of these questions with the hope of enhancing society's understanding of and appreciation for human variation across cultures, bringing awareness to the different ways in which culture and human psyche mutually constitute each other, and promoting the value of these ideas for a healthy and culturally diverse society.
Although my discipline is social-personality psychology, my perspective has been shaped by multiple and distinct intellectual traditions, including cultural psychology, ethnic studies, and anthropology.
For detailed description of my empirical work and their implications, please go to my laboratory webpage:
http://biculturalism.ucr.edu/research.html
http://biculturalism.ucr.edu/home.html
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KeyWords
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Cross-Cultural Psychology; Cultural Psychology; Personality Psychology; Social Psychology
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