Saint Louis University

Brown Lab

Research Overview

The Brown Lab researches the critical role of the self in social behavior. Within this theme, we have two primary lines of research: (1) The nature and structure of the self-concept (e.g., self-complexity, dynamic changes in active self-aspects), and (2) the self in relation to others (e.g., social inclusion and exclusion, how parasocial relationships affect the self).

April 2011: Undergraduate and graduate students in a Brown Lab meeting.

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About the name

             Most other labs at Saint Louis University are named after the research topic, so why the “Brown Lab”? Two reasons:

             (1) Lab names are posted outside the lab, and because our research often involves deception we do not want to give participants too much information about what we study (which a topic-based named might do).

             (2) Without this name, a chocolate Labrador could not be our mascot!