Welcome to the
Self, Identity, & Relationships (SIR)
Lab
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Psychology
Sather Gate
The SIR Lab -- Self, Identity, & Relationships Lab -- focuses on three broad areas of research: (1) social bases of the self and identity, (2) the impact of prior relationships on present-day interpersonal life, and (3) the effects of social power on the self, social perception, and social behavior. Across areas, most of the research conducted in the SIR Lab is conducted at a social-cognitive level of analysis, embracing assumptions regarding underlying cognitive structures and processes, or directly testing them.
-- Serena Chen, Ph.D.
SIR Lab Director
If you are interested in learning more about the research done in the SIR Lab, or about the people conducting the research, please use the links to your left, or feel free to contact us directly.