joel e martinez

links to research talks & media articles where i discuss social issues

media outreach

psypost

2025
february
Is psychology getting race wrong? Harvard study reveals racial categories may not predict shared views on racism
A recent study found that while racial categories show average differences in perceptions of racism, there is just as much disagreement within groups as between them. This challenges the assumption that racial groups share cohesive views and questions common research methods.
sage methodspace

2024
may
The Beauty in Nurturing Communal and Liberating Forms of Computational Social Science
This blog post is the third of eight in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to
cassandra project roundtable: integrating textual & non-textual data

2023
march
my undocumented life

2021
December
nurturing illegalized thought into a disruptive and guiding force
guest interview featuring joel as part of the undocuscholarship series at my undocumented life, we had the opportunity to interview joel who is currently a postdoctoral fellow at harvard’s data sci…
society for personality and social psychology news center

2021
may
where is the undocumented in psychology?
“my mom called me with news that ice raids were scheduled on her birthday in her city. ‘why do they hate us, we just want to live in peace.’ i cried while preparing a talk on immigrant narratives. the conference continued on, undisturbed.”
society for personality and social psychology free form fridays

2021
april
cuspp – zoom recording
joel martinez and jun won park recently hosted a free-form friday session on how to support undocumented students in social & personality psychology.
princeton insights

2020
december
stories of immigrant achievement could combat xenophobia
princeton insights reviews new psychological work examining how narratives of achievement can combat xenophobia against immigrants.
aids map

2018
november
PrEP sorting: hiv-negative gay men prefer sexual partners who are using PrEP
PrEP status is a significant factor for hiv-negative men who have sex with men (msm) when selecting sexual partners, but not when choosing friends or romantic partners for dating, according to an american study published in aids care…
the daily princetonian

2018
july
what you need to know about daca recipients and the university
in september of 2017, as students left their homes all over the world to come to campus, the trump administration announced it would begin to phase out the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, which provides protections for individuals who were brought to the united states illegally as ch…
cnn

2018
july
how we became americans
for the fourth of july, cnnopinion asked a number of americans who came to the united states– from countries as far-flung as vietnam, haiti, somalia and the soviet union–to write about their experiences. what was it like leaving their home countries and traveling so far to a strange land?
princeton alumni weekly

2018
march
journeys of hardship and hope: daca students share their stories
as congress debated the future of immigration reform and the deferred action for childhood arrivals (daca) program last month, paw sat down with three of the 15 daca recipients, also known as dreamers…
scientific american

2017
february
showcasing immigrant excellence
a social-media campaign to counter negative stereotypes shows enormous promise—but it’s still a work in progress

reposted to spsp character & context blog

vox

2017
january
a harvard psychologist started #immigrantexcellence to combat myth that immigrants and refugees are dangerous
immigrant academics want to remind trump of their extraordinary success in america.
the princeton summer journal

2016
august
‘you can’t tell whose parents have money’: the story of first-generation students
there’s a minority group at princeton that isn’t constrained to one gender, race or religion. they walk around campus unseen. the university claims their well-being…

research Talks

racecraft in psychological science


2024
facecraft: race reification in psychological research with faces

vision sciences society
2023
immigrant faceism: documentation statuses evoke distinct visual stereotypes

princeton
2019
narratives shape psychological representations of immigrants

SESP
2018