Betty A. Bachman

 Dr. Bachman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was educated at the prestigious Philadelphia Girls Academy.  She attended undergraduate courses at Temple University before graduating with distinction from the University of Virginia.  She earned the MA in Experimental Psychology at Villanova University and the PhD in Psychology at the University of Delaware, where she was honored as a "Woman of Promise" for her graduate research.

Professionally, Dr. Bachman applies the tools of social psychology--some of which she developed herself--to questions of prejudice and stereotyping, mergers and acquisitions, and romantic relationships.  All of her full-time professional employment as been at Siena 

Dr. Bachman is married and live in Ballston Spa, NY, where she also pursues her avocation as a potter.

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• How groups merge: The effects of organization
  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, vol. 27
  1998
• Revisiting the Contact Hypothesis: The induction of a common ingroup identity
  International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 20
  1996
• The Contact Hypothesis: The role of common ingroup identity on reducing intergroup bias
  Small Group Research, vol. 25
  1994
• The common ingroup identity model: Re-categorization and the reduction of intergoup bias
  European Review of Social Psychology, vol. 4
  1993

Awards & Distinctions

• Mentor for Kristina Puzino
  Category: Teaching
  Siena Leadership Institute, 2009
•  For distinguished dissertation research
  Category: Research
  College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware, 1993

Books & Book Chapters

• Groups at work: Advances in theory and research
  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
  2001
• Social Identity in Organizatons
  Blackwell
  2001
• The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life
  Blackwell
  1997
• What's So Social About Social Cognition? Research in socially shared cognition in small groups
  Sage Publications
  1996

Presentations

• Identity in Romantic Relationships: Are you all in or not?
  2015
  Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Identity and the urge to merge in romantic relationshps
  2012
  Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, Illinois
• The effects of identification level and trust on turnover intentions
  2006
  Association for Psychological Science Convention, New York, New York
• Organizational Trust Enhances Outgroup Evaluations in Corporate Acquisitions
  2003
  American Psychological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
• How groups merge: The effects of merge integration patterns on expectations of organizational commitment
  1996
  Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Intergroup issues in corporate mergers
  1996
  Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Race, face-ism and the popular press: Black face-ism as a function of negative context
  1996
  Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Categorization, Recategorization and Common Ingroup Identity
  1995
  Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Washington, District of Columbia
• The effects of ingroup and personal status in reaction to organizational mergers
  1995
  Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Washington, District of Columbia
• The urge to submerge: The effects of the Absorb merger integration pattern
  1995
  American Psychological Society, New York, New York
• When corporations merge: Organizational identification among employees of acquiring and acquired organizations
  1993
  Eastern Psychological Association, Crystal City, Virginia
• Racial differences in expression of bias towards the outgroup
  1992
  Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts
• The effects of interpersonal vs. intergroup interactions on generalization toward the outgroup
  1992
  Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts