Jordan Axt | Director

 McGill Intergroup Cognition Lab

Jordan Axt | Director

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Welcome to the McGill Intergroup Cognition Lab. We study how people form and express intergroup bias in attitudes and behavior. The lab is led by Jordan Axt, Assistant Professor of Psychology at McGill University.

 

At The MICL, We are:

  1. Identifying and reducing the influence of social information—like age, gender, or race—in judgment.

  2. Understanding how implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes are shaped by cultural context, change over time, and predict other beliefs and behaviors.

  3. Creating advances in measurement and analysis of these processes, particularly through developing novel methodologies and leveraging large datasets.

Lab

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Join Us

The lab will be recruiting graduate students for the Fall 2025 semester.

If you are interested in joining the lab as a research assistant, please contact Lab Director Jordan Axt.

Publications

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Featured Publications

Featured
Beyond first impressions: Investigating the influence of visual attention and cue availability in discriminatory behavior

Roy, E. Dong, D. Otto, A.R. & Axt, J.R. (in press). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Data and Materials →

How can debiasing research aid efforts to reduce discrimination?

Axt, J.R. & To, J. (in press). Personality and Social Psychology Review.

Local legislation is associated with regional transgender attitudes

Roy, E. Hehman, E.L., & Axt, J.R. (in press). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Data and Materials →

What underlies the opposition to trans-inclusive policies? The role of concerns about male violence versus attitudes towards trans people.

Morgenroth, T., Axt, J.R., & Westgate, E.C. (2024). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Data and Materials →

Contact Us

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McGill Intergroup Cognition Lab

Jordan Axt
Department of Psychology
2001 McGill College, 7th floor
Montreal, QC H3A 1G1