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 reports of intergroup conflict affect daily intergroup interactions and health symptomatology?
• How do self-serving biases affect person perception and social esteem in same-group and intergroup interactions?
• Are cognitive resources required to monitor behaviour in intergroup 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?