Z. Ferguson

PhD Candidate, Psychology (expected 2025)

Master of Science, Psychology (2023)

University of Washington, Dept. of Psychology

Seattle, WA, USA

My Research

I'm a 5th year Ph.D. candidate. I received my Bachelor's in Cognitive Science and Comparative Ethnic Studies (UC Berkeley) and my Master's in Psychology (UW). I study how social identities impact our lives, as well as how biases are created and maintained in larger systems (e.g., education, legal contexts). My current projects focus on (cognitive and legal) bias against sexual harassment victims, supporting formerly incarcerated parents, and prototypes of nonbinary individuals.

Publications

Ferguson, Z. E., Schachtman, R., & Kaiser, C. R. (manuscript under review). An Educational Intervention to Broaden Prototypes of Sexual Harassment Victims Among Laypeople and Lawyers.

Ferguson, Z. E., Glazier, J. J., Bandt-Law, B., & Kaiser, C. R. (in-principle acceptance). Do gender prototypes limit sexual harassment victims’ access to justice? Law and Human Behavior.

Gallegos, J. M., Ferguson, Z. E., Dover, T., Mclaughlin, K., & Kaiser, C. R. (2024). Bearing witness to police brutality affects psychological and cardiovascular responses in Black Americans and White Americans. Psychology of Violence. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000576

Ferguson, Z. E., Jarvis, S. N., Antonoplis, S. & Okonofua, J. A. (2023). Principal beliefs predict responses to individual students’ misbehavior. Educational Researcher.

https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X231158389.

Jarvis, S. N., Ferguson, Z. E., & Okonofua, J., A. (2023). Principals' disciplinary decisions in a nationally representative sample. Collabra: Psychology.

https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.88326

Ferguson, Z. E. & Morgenroth, T. (manuscript in preparation). White, skinny, androgynous: Narrow prototypes of nonbinary people.