Gabriel Camacho

Gabriel Camacho, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He received his B.A. (2012) in Psychology from the University of Virginia and his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) from the University of Connecticut. He joined John Jay in 2020. His research examines novel ways in which the risk of being stigmatized can adversely affect the stereotype-relevant performance of ethnic minorities and the health and well-being of people with concealable stigmatized identities (i.e., devalued identities not immediately knowable to others). He also studies lay perceptions of both. For example, do people believe that identity-based threats can adversely affect the well-being and academic performance of ethnic minority students? And what are the consequences of these beliefs? His research contributes toward understanding the situationally-induced causes of social inequality and people’s motivation to address these causes.