Xuechunzi Bai studies dynamic social minds. Broadly, she explores the interplay between individual decision processes and societal phenomena in the field of social cognition. She investigates how individuals adaptively but selectively construct their social world and how the constructed social world, in turn, shapes individual minds. A key area of her research has been investigating the psychological origins of social stereotypes, uncovering the paradoxical relationship between intelligent individual behaviors, such as self-interested exploration, and the collective detrimental outcomes, such as social stratification.

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