David Rice

Professor of Psychology and Principal Investigator

Morehouse College, Identity, Art, & Democracy Lab

David Wall Rice is Professor of Psychology at Morehouse College with a program of study that places emphasis on identity and personality. The primary vehicle for this work is the Identity, Art, and Democracy Lab, a research space where Rice et al. examine identity through life stories and an asset-based lens. The Lab explores the best parts of how people adapt to a variety of contexts, with special attention to popular culture because of its capacity to influence perception and behavior.  A fundamental assumption of the program of research that Rice engages is the better we know how individuals adjust to the world while showing up as their whole, healthy selves, the better-built communities and democracies we might enjoy. Rice graduated from Morehouse with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and earned a doctorate in personality psychology from Howard University. With a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, he frequently applies his research to cultural criticism and to social impact programming.