Morehouse College
Assistant Professor of Psychology

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David is a psychology professor and Principal Investigator of the Identity Orchestration Research Lab at Morehouse College. The Lab explores expressions of identity balance through engagement, the exploration of varied contexts and personal narratives. It is a strengths-based lab that works to understand and to elicit behavioral bests. David graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and earned a Doctorate in Personality Psychology from Howard University.

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With a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University, David frequently applies his research to cultural criticism. He is Contributor to the national morning news program The Takeaway, a co-production of WNYC Radio and Public Radio International, and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for The Journal of Popular Culture. David has also provided commentary for NPR, CBS News, MSNBC and his writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, Vibe magazine and The Root among other media outlets. David’s research in Personality Psychology is sharply focused on identity and self constructs. This is demonstrated in his book Balance: Advancing identity theory by engaging the Black male adolescent and the text-in-progress I Ain’t No Joke: Identity orchestration through the narratives of hip-hop lyricism.

 

David’s current research attends to Black identity within the recast social context of the “Obama Era” and the psychology of strength as informed by study in Ghana, Israel and Haiti.

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Contact Info:

David Wall Rice
Morehouse College
Department of Psychology
830 Westview Dr. S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314
404-681-7565
drice@morehouse.edu