Research at the Embodied Social Cognition Lab examines the way information from the social environment is processed and applied in social interactions. Subsumed by this high-level theme are many specific areas of interest, particularly within the intergroup domain. Some key questions that are asked through research in ESC include:

• How do close cross-group relationships affect social interactions with novel outgroup members?
• Do media representations of intergroup relations affect daily intergroup interactions and health symptomatology?
• How do intergroup expectations and attitudes relate to stress and health?
• How are cognitive resources spent in social interactions?
• Which modes of social stimuli carry the most weight in person perception: auditory and verbal stimuli, visual stimuli and nonverbal behaviour, cognitive representations, explicit attitudes and expectations, or physiological and neuroendocrine responses?
• What factors predict when people of different generations will confront intergenerational prejudice?