Abigail Gray

Undergraduate Senior


Curriculum vitae



Psychology Department

Southern Virginia University



Research Interests


Existential Psychology 
  • How the concept and construct of death changes across groups (e.g. religious individuals and atheists).
  • How the way we treat and view death as a society impacts other areas of our society (e.g. how we treat disabled individuals).
  • Differences in death anxiety and perception of death in different social groups (religions, sexual orientations, etc.)
  • Integration of existential topics with other areas of psychology, including relationships between things such as death anxiety and prejudice. 
Prejudice/Bias
  • Differences and unique aspects of prejudice in different marginalized groups, particularly sexual orientations (how does prejudice towards asexual individuals differ from prejudice towards lesbians, etc).
  • Intergroup relations research investigating cooperation, community, and policy. 
  • Interventions for understanding and reducing prejudice. 
LGBTQ+ Topics
  • Investigating areas in psychology research that have little to no research on marginalized groups, especially LGBTQ+ individuals.
  • General overlapping of LGBTQ+ topics in existential research and research on prejudice/bias
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