Dr. Wagoner (he/him) joined the UCCS Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology in Fall 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. in Basic and Applied Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University in 2019. He was a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, from 2012 to 2021 and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UCCS from 2021 to 2024.

Dr. Wagoner is broadly interested in understanding and examining (a) why people identify with groups and internalize their beliefs and values, along with how identification processes affect group processes, intergroup relations, and responses to socio-political events, (b) how people's religious and political beliefs affect their social cognitive processes, (c) how psychological processes related to identities and belief systems operate similarity and differently across cultures, and (d) how unreported aspects of the research process can affect the generalizability of findings.

Social identity theory, political and religious beliefs, group processes, intergroup relations, cultural differences, meta-science

Ph.D. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Claremont Graduate University
M.A. Experimental Psychology, California State University, Fresno
B. A. Psychology and Philosophy of Religion, California State University, Fresno

PSY 2100 – Introduction to Psychological Statistics
PSY 3400 – Social Psychology
PSY 5810 – Research Statistics and Methodology, I
PSY 6430 – Advanced Social Psychology

Wagoner, J. A., & Rinella, M. (2024). Ideological asymmetries in morality predict schism intentions. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27, 14-40. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231156398

Wagoner, J. A., Lomeli, B., & Sundby, J. (2023). Ideological orientations, intergroup stereotypes, and opposition to housing programs. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 23, 282-307. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12346

Wagoner, J. A., Rinella, M., & Barreto, N. (2021). “It was rigged”: Different types of identification predict activism and radicalism in the U. S. 2020 Election. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 21, 189-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12270

Wagoner, J. A., & VanCuren, S. (2021). Religious orientations, prototypicality threat, and attitudes towards church-state separation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51, 927-945. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12812

Mastandrea, S., Wagoner, J. A., & Hogg, M. A. (2021). Liking for abstract and representational art: National identity as an art appreciation heuristic. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15, 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000272

UCCS Diversity Scholar Award, 2024