Sara Estrada Villalta, PhD
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Sara Estrada-Villalta completed a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas (2020), a Master of Arts in Social Psychology at the University of Northern Iowa (2011), and an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (2007). Her teaching and research interests focus on understanding how sociocultural contexts shape the ways in which people understand themselves and their identities. Her work draws upon global psychological perspectives, including critical perspectives such as Liberation Psychology and Decolonizing approaches rooted in Latin American contexts to interrogate processes of psychological knowledge production and application, as well as exploring how this knowledge shapes societies and individual lives. Her research and teaching practice have an international focus with the purpose of understanding how cultural patterns, power structures, interethnic relations, histories of violent conflict, and economic and political processes shape psychological experiences.
Her teaching and research interests focus on understanding how sociocultural contexts shape the ways in which people understand themselves and their identities. Her work draws upon global psychological perspectives, including critical perspectives such as Liberation Psychology and Decolonizing approaches rooted in Latin American contexts to interrogate processes of psychological knowledge production and application, as well as exploring how this knowledge shapes societies and individual lives. Her research and teaching practice have an international focus with the purpose of understanding how cultural patterns, power structures, interethnic relations, histories of violent conflict, and economic and political processes shape psychological experiences.
1. Mancilla-Cáceres, J. F., Estrada-Villalta, S. (2022). The ethical considerations of A.I. in Latin America. Digital Society, 1, 1-6.
2. Adams, G., Estrada-Villalta S., Sullivan, D., & Markus, H. R. (2019). The psychology of
neoliberalism and the neoliberalism of psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 75, 189-216.
3. Estrada-Villalta, S., & Adams, G. (2018). Decolonizing development: A decolonial approach to the psychology of economic inequality. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4,
198-209.