Tyler Jimenez, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Advising:
Not accepting new graduate students in 2025-2026.
Areas:
Social and Personality
Interests: inequality; policing; critical psychology; prejudice; Indigenous
Research
My research engages with existential, political, cultural, historical, and critical psychology, using a multi-method approach to understand social issues.
Education
University of Missouri (2021)
- March 22, 2024 Tyler Jimenez elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)'s Early Career Representative for Psychology
- October 6, 2023 Tyler Jimenez published article in Social and Personality Psychology Compass investigating impact of neoliberalism on COVID-19's uneven spread in the U.S.
- November 16, 2022 Tyler Jimenez's research featured in UW ArtSci article honoring American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
- October 20, 2022 Tyler Jimenez and colleagues published in Psychological Science
- January 19, 2022 Tyler Jimenez's research on the removal of Native American mascots featured by UW News
- November 29, 2021 Tyler Jimenez receives SAGE Emerging Scholars Award
- Jimenez, T., Arndt, J., & Helm, P. J. (2023). Prejudicial reactions to the removal of Native American mascots. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
- Jimenez, T., Helm, P. J., & Arndt, J. (2023). Racial prejudice predicts police militarization. Psychological Science.
- Schmitt, H. J., Jimenez, T., & Young, I. F. Pandemic precarity: A multi-level study of neoliberal precarity and COVID-related outcomes. (2023). Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
- Jimenez, T., Helm, P. J., & Arndt, J. (2020). Fighting death with health inequality: The role of mortality cognition and shifting racial demographics in policy attitudes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
- Jimenez, T., Restar, A., Helm, P. J., Cross, R. I., Barath, D., & Arndt, J. (2020). Fatalism in the context of COVID-19: Perceiving coronavirus as a death sentence predicts reluctance to perform recommended preventive behaviors. Social Science & Medicine - Population Health, 11.
- Lewis, M., Myhra, L., Smith, B., Holcomb, S., Erb, J., & Jimenez, T. (2020). Tribally specific cultural learning: The Remember the Removal program. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 16(3), 233-247.