Danielle Berke

Claudia Brumbaugh

Gabriel Camacho

Cheryl Carmichael

Ana Gantman

Sarit Golub

Catherine Good

Curtis Hardin

Margaret Bull Kovera

Jacqueline Katzman

Yana Kuchirko

Matthew Lindauer

Hannah Nam

Tracey Revenson

Daniel Rovenpor

Kristin Sommer

Justin Storbeck

Virginia Valian

Daryl Wout

Elisabeth Brauner

Kristen Gillespie-Lynch

Julia Lechuga

Eric Mandelbaum

Jaihyun Park

Wei Wang

“How do our assumptions about the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of men and women contribute to violence?”

Danielle Berke is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hunter College.  She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Georgia where she also earned a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies. Dr. Berke’s laboratory applies a culturally-informed, empirical lens to the study of gender-based violence—a general term used to capture violence resulting from normative gender role expectations and unequal power relationships within the context of a specific society. Her research seeks to understand how gender ideologies contribute to the perpetration of violence. She also examines psychological risk and resilience factors among women and sexual and gender minorities exposed to violence. A fundamental end goal of this research program is to inform interventions to prevent violence and treat its consequences. Dr. Berke's research is both laboratory and community-based. In these settings, she applies principles and theories from social psychology, clinical psychology, and public health to generate solutions to gender-based social inequalities.

Office: Hunter College, North Building, Rm: 714B
E: db2800@hunter.cuny.edu Ph: (212) 396-6378
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My research addresses processes that lead to the development of transactive memory systems in groups. Transactive memory systems can be understood as the knowledge team members have about the knowledge of other team members and the interaction and communication (transactive processes) that allow them to learn and apply this knowledge. Transactive memory systems are particularly important for teams working in organizations due to division of labor that leads to cognitive interdependence. This requires integration of disparate and potentially dispersed expertise.I have developed two instruments that allow research on transactive memory systems in teams. One measure is a self-report scale consisting of 20 items addressing the subdimensions integration, differentiation, metaknowledge, transactivity, and cognitive interdependence. The second measure is an observational process-coding system consisting of 12 coding categories. Both measures are available in multiple languages thus allowing cross-cultural research. The current focus is cognitive processes that allow team members to disclose and acquire knowledge as well as social processes that allow them to retrieve knowledge from, and allocate knowledge to, others. These processes have yet to be studied longitudinally in teams.              

Office: Brooklyn College James Hall, Rm: 5603
E: ebrauner@brooklyn.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-6035   
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"If people want successful relationships, why do some still end up with partners who are damaging to relationships?"

My research focuses on uncovering the processes that lead people to experience similar thoughts and emotions across different relationships. The framework of adult attachment theory, coupled with social-cognitive paradigms, has been especially useful in guiding my research. I also use principles from evolutionary psychology to examine how relational decisions and behaviors might be adaptive. A substantial portion of my research centers on people’s level of self-awareness in relationship initiation processes, the processes of relationship dissolution and renewal, and how people portray themselves in new dating contexts as a function of their attachment style. Finally, the diversity of Queens College and NYC has led my research team to develop research projects that address the roles of culture, religious values, and sexual identity in people’s emotional and attachment experiences.

Office: Queens College, Science Building, Rm: D304
E: claudia.brumbaugh@qc.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 997-3250
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“What are the prejudice-reduction strategies used by members of minoritized ethnic groups, when are they used, and are they effective?”

Gabriel Camacho 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 aims at understanding, documenting, and ameliorating the experiences of members of stigmatized groups. He studies stigma by examining the perceptions of groups who possess group-based identities that are negatively stereotyped and historically marginalized as well as by examining perceptions of and attitudes toward these groups. His most recent work examines the ways in which stereotyping and prejudice adversely impact members of minoritized ethnic groups (e.g., the likelihood of being racially profiled by police) and the effectiveness of the prejudice-reduction strategies used by members of these groups (e.g., codeswitching).

Office: John Jay College, Rm: 10.65.15 NB
E: gcamacho@jjay.cuny.edu
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"Why do people with better relationships live longer, healthier lives?"

Cheryl Carmichael is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. She completed her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of Rochester, and is head of the Health, Emotion, and Relationships Team (HEaRT) lab. Dr. Carmichael’s lab integrates social-cognitive and individual differences perspectives to understand how psychological mechanisms and personal characteristics influence relationship behavior, relationship perceptions, mechanisms of health, and well-being. Her program of research has been guided by adult attachment theory, and is organized around perceived partner responsiveness. She is currently focused on conducting NSF-funded research exploring how responsiveness can be conveyed nonverbally (e.g., through affectionate touch and vocal tone), and how attachment (in)security shapes people’s ability to provide and perceive responsive behavior. She uses a combination of experimental and experience sampling approaches to study these processes in the lab, and in the ebb and flow of daily life.

Office: Brooklyn College, James Hall, Rm: 4301B
E: ccarmichael@brooklyn.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-6059
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"How do our moral values affect how we see, think, act and interact within institutions?”

Ana Gantman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center where she co-directs the PsyPhi Lab. Her research is focused on moral psychology—how people judge what is right and wrong, and what they do with those judgments, including: how people use and abuse societal rules, the allure of villains and antiheroes, care labor, the intersection of art and moral psychology, and sexual violence prevention. Prior to joining CUNY, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She completed her BA in Philosophy at Harvard University and her PhD in Social Psychology at New York University. Prof. Gantman has received numerous awards for her research including CUNY’s Henry Wasser award for outstanding early career research, was named an APS Rising Star in 2022, and received the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in 2020. 

Office: Brooklyn College, James Hall
E: ana.gantman@brooklyn.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-3896
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"How can we support positive autistic identity development and transform societal conceptions of autism?"

Kristen Gillespie-Lynch is Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. She holds appointments on the doctoral faculties in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Educational Psychology the Graduate Center. Dr. Gillespie-Lynch's research focuses on autistic identity development and neurodiversity-affirmative strategies for helping autistic people thrive and transforming societal conceptions of autism. Dr. Gillespie-Lynch teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in research methods and neurodiversity. She is the director of CSI's Advanced Certificate Program in Autism and CSI's Project REACH, a mentorship program for neurodivergent students. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the FAR Fund. She is on the editorial board of Autism.

Office: College of Staten Island, 4S, Rm: 103
E: kristen.gillespie@csi.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 982-4121
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“How are our conceptions of gender and sexuality evolving?”

Sarit Golub is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center and at Hunter College.  She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Harvard (under the mentorship of Dan Gilbert) and also holds an Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.  Dr. Golub’s laboratory focuses on gender and sexuality, and includes research on feminist identity, transgender health, and the impact of sexual behavior and expression on physical, mental, emotional, and relational health. Dr. Golub’s laboratory investigates HIV as a case study for larger psychological concepts such as stigma and stereotype, interpersonal and intergroup processes, identity development, and judgment and decision-making. Her NIH-funded research focused on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and applies theory and methods across disciplines (including social psychology, neuropsychology, behavioral economics and decision sciences) to inform new approaches to HIV prevention and care.

Office: Hunter College, North Building, Rm: 1209
E: sarit.golub@hunter.cuny.edu Ph: (212) 396-6304
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"How can we reduce gender and race gaps in achievement?"

Catherine Good is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Baruch College where she directs The Good Lab. She holds appointments on the doctoral faculties in Basic and Applied Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology at the Graduate Center. She received her PhD in Social Psychology and Mathematics Education from the University of Texas at Austin and also holds a master’s in mathematics from the University of Kansas. Dr. Good completed her postdoctoral training at Columbia University under the mentorship of Carol Dweck. 

Dr. Good applies her interdisciplinary background in psychology, mathematics, and education to bridge basic research in social psychology with applied practice across schools, workplaces, and home environments. For example, Dr. Good studies how social and identity processes—such as stereotype threat, mindset, belonging, and self-concept—shape motivation, learning, and performance, as well as how these forces can be harnessed to promote equity and well-being. The Good Lab collaborates with national programs to design and test interventions that translate theory into practice, creating environments that foster growth, inclusion, and resilience in scholarly, professional, and personal domains.

Office: Baruch College, Vertical Campus Rm: 8-298
E: Catherine.good@baruch.cuny.edu Ph: (646) 312-3862
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“How are values and beliefs expressed and regulated by interpersonal and other social relationships?”

Curtis D. Hardin is a professor of psychology at Brooklyn College and Graduate Center who previously taught at UCLA, received post-doctoral training at Columbia (with E. Tory Higgins), and completed a Ph.D. in social/personality psychology at Yale (advisor: Mahzarin R. Banaji). His research focuses on the role of interpersonal dynamics in cognition, including implicit prejudice, the self-concept, social identification, culture, and political ideology.

Office: Brooklyn College, James Hall Rm: 5113c
E: chardin@gc.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-6018

What social psychological processes contribute to wrongful convictions?

Dr. Jacqueline Katzman is a tenure-track assistant professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Katzman’s research focuses on biases in the legal system, with a specific focus on racial disparities in mistaken identifications. Research in Dr. Katzman’s lab examines decisions made by police officers, attorneys, witnesses, jurors, and judges using multiple methodological approaches (e.g., meta-analysis, bayesian modeling, archival research, in-person & online behavioral experiments). Dr. Katzman has received several awards for her research, including 1st place in the American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award Competition. She received her PhD from CUNY’s Graduate Center and her BA from Cornell University.

Office: John Jay College, Room 10.63.14
E: jkatzman@jjay.cuny.edu
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“How do social psychological factors like biased hypothesis testing, confirmation bias, base rate neglect, and implicit bias influence decision making in the legal system, including decisions made by eyewitnesses, attorneys, judges, jurors, and police officers?”

Margaret Bull Kovera is a Presidential Scholar and Professor in the Psychology Department. She is an internationally recognized expert on eyewitness identification and legal decision making. For over twenty-five years, she has had continuous funding (over $2.8 million) from federal agencies, including the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, for her research on eyewitness identification, jury decision-making, and scientific evidence.  Her research on these topics has been published in Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Her book, The psychology of juries (published by the American Psychological Association), received the American Psychology-Law Society Book Award.

Kovera is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association, a Past-President of the American Psychology-Law Society, and former Editor-in-Chief of Law and Human Behavior, the premier outlet for scholarship in psychology and law. She is the recipient of the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Achievement in Psychology and Law (APLS and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology), the Outstanding Teacher and Mentor in Psychology and Law Award (APLS), Distinguished Teaching Award (John Jay College), Outstanding Scholarly Mentor Award (John Jay College), the Distinguished Service Award (SPSSI), and Outstanding Book in Psychology and Law (APLS). Most recently she received the American Psychology-Law Society's Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Psychology and Law. She regularly serves as an expert witness in cases involving eyewitness identification.

Office: John Jay College, Rm:10.65.02
E: mkovera@jjay.cuny.edu Ph: (212) 484-1112
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“How are ideas of childhood and family socially constructed? How do parents and youth across cultures ‘do’ family at the intersections of race, class, gender, and ability—and what do these practices reveal about broader social structures?”

Yana Kuchirko is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from New York University. Dr. Kuchirko’s research broadly centers on family life, with a focus on how cultural communities construct ideas about childhood and motherhood, and how these roles are socially constructed and regulated within intersecting systems of race, class, ability, and gender, among other social identities. Within this area of work, she examines socialization practices across borders and cultures, investigating how parents and caregivers shape children’s understanding of gender, ethnicity, and race, while attending to the social, cultural, and structural forces that constrain and enable these practices. In a related body of work, she examines the role of nonhuman animals in contemporary family life, highlighting how multispecies households challenge conventional notions of family and participate in the social construction of childhood. Current projects include studies of parenting across diverse ethnic and racial communities, the social and cultural processes that govern children’s access to emotionally and socially complex knowledge, and how families incorporate companion animals into their everyday lives. Across all these projects, Dr. Kuchirko and her students employ multiple methods, including observational, survey, visual, and qualitative approaches, to critically examine the contexts, ideologies, and inequalities that shape childhood and family life across various settings.

Office: Brooklyn College, James Hall, Rm: 4307C
E: yana.kuchirko@brooklyn.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-6076
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Dr. Lechuga graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a PhD in health psychology in 2008 and completed an NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2010. She has over 15 years of experience assessing the needs of Latino/a/x individuals with substance use disorder in the U.S. and Central America and developing, implementing and testing behavioral interventions aimed at reducing ethnic health disparities in HIV and substance use prevention and treatment while addressing needs assessed. She employs a CBPR framework and her interventions address factors at the policy, community, and individual levels.

Office: Hunter College, Hunter North Bldg 738C
E: jl13211@hunter.cuny.edu Ph: 212-396-6857

“What role do moral and political concepts play in motivating prosocial behavior and enabling group action?”

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.  My research focuses on the relevance of psychological research to the evaluation of moral and political concepts.  On the view that I developed, moral and political philosophers should be, and have often been, interested in the “fruitfulness” of these concepts – how well they help us to solve practical problems.  Notably, evaluating fruitfulness along these dimensions is partly an empirical enterprise, where psychological research is needed to determine the extent to which our moral and political concepts help us to solve the practical problems they are supposed to help us solve.  Relatedly, I conducted some of the first empirical research examining the motivational force of moral arguments for duties to address severe poverty.  More generally, my work seeks to unearth empirical assumptions made in the course of doing moral and political philosophy that psychology can help us to evaluate, especially in areas where philosophy examines pressing real-world problems.

Before coming to Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University.  I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale in 2015, where I was a member of Joshua Knobe’s lab.  With Ana Gantman, I co-direct the PsyPhi Lab at the Graduate Center. 

Office: Brooklyn College, Boylan Hall, Room 3307
E: matthew.lindauer@brooklyn.cuny.edu, Ph: (718) 951-5000 x2132
Website: https:/matthewlindauer.com

“What is the basic structure of thought?”

I am the Ruth Printz O’Hare ’52 Professor, with appointments in the departments of Philosophy & Psychology at The Graduate Center, and the Department of Philosophy at Baruch College. I research foundational issues in cognitive science, mostly pertaining to cognitive architecture and the structure of thought. My current projects (as of spring 2024) are focused on: types of Languages of Thought; perceptual categorization; automaticity in thought; inference in developmental and comparative psychology; rationality and beliefs in delusional thinking; the role of fluency in belief acquisition; judgements of profundity. Other recent work addresses models of unconscious inference and associative thinking, modularity, visual categorization, the mechanics of ensemble representations, the iconicity of language, the phonetics of slurs, computational theories of cognition and consciousness, the structure of mental representations, the limits of the computational theory of mind and broad topics in belief acquisition, storage, and change. I’m currently writing a book on the Psychofunctional Theory of Belief (for OUP).

Before joining CUNY, I was the Mind/Brain/Behavior fellow at Harvard as a member of the Mind/Brain/Behavior Program and the Department of Philosophy; before that, I was the ACLS New Faculty Fellow at Yale in the Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science program; and before that I was a James Martin Fellow at Oxford University in the Faculty of Philosophy, St. Catherine's College, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Institute of Science and Religion, and the Oxford Martin 21st Century School. I have won grants and awards from societies such as the Cognitive Science Society, the ACLS/Mellon, and NEH.

Office: GC 7105; Baruch: 4-245
Email: emandelbaum@gc.cuny.edu; phone: 646-312-4379
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"What motivates political complacency or political action in contexts of systemic and cultural inequality?"

Hannah Nam is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. She completed her Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University and previously served as a faculty member of political science at Stony Brook University. Hannah is interested in the psychology of political complacency and political action in contexts of systemic and cultural inequality, particularly in the domains of racial and economic disparities. Currently, her research explores the relationships between individual well-being and engagement in political behavior, as well as how our explanations about groups and diversity are related to our social and political attitudes and behaviors. She uses survey, experimental, and neuroscientific methods to understand social and political behavior across multiple levels of analysis — an interdisciplinary approach that lies at the intersection of social psychology, political science, and cognitive neuroscience.

 Office: Brooklyn College, James Hall, Rm 4613
E: hannah.nam@brooklyn.cuny.edu  Ph: 718-951-5000 x. 6027
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"Why do people make certain judgments about minorities without being aware of the nature of those judgments?"

Dr. Park has conducted a program of research on (a) stereotyping and prejudice and (b) jury decision-making. He has investigated situational factors and psychological processes that affect social judgment and behavior, with a focus on the implicit or unconscious ways in which social category information influences human judgment and behavior in an intergroup context. In addition, he has conducted research on cognitive and affective factors that may affect jurors’ legal decision making in courtroom.  Dr. Park has taught undergraduate and doctoral level courses on psychology and law, social psychology, psychology and culture, statistics, and psychometrics.

Office: Baruch College, Vertical Campus, Rm: 8-223
E: Jaihyun.park@baruch.cuny.edu Ph: (646) 312-3806

“What naturally-occurring resilience factors help patients, couples and family adapt to living with a chronic physical illness?”

Tracey A. Revenson is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She received a B.A. from Yale University in theatre and psychology, a Ph.D. in psychology from New York University, and postdoctoral training in social ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Trained as one of the first generation of health psychologists, Dr. Revenson studies how stress and coping processes affect psychological adjustment to chronic physical illness, and how these processes are influenced by the social context , gender and race/ethnicity. In addition to numerous chapters and articles, Dr. Revenson is the co-author or co-editor of 14 books, including Becoming a Health Psychologist (2020), the Handbook of Health Psychology (2019), the Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health & Medicine (2019), Caregiving in the Illness Context (2015), Couples Coping with Stress (2005), and the forthcoming (2025) APA Handbook of Heath Psychology: Health Psychology & Public Health.  

Dr. Revenson is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Behavioral  Medicine and is a Past-President of the Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, the European Health Psychology Society, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and is a founding member of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council.  In 2013, she was awarded the Nathan Perry Award for Career Contributions to Health Psychology from the Society for Health Psychology, APA. She has received two national awards for her mentoring: the Award for Excellence in Mentoring from the Society for Health Psychology (2019) and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Society for Behavioral Medicine (2020).   

Office: Hunter College, East Building, Rm: 1201
E: TRevenson@gc.cuny.edu Ph: (212) 396-6769
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"How do emotions and motivations shape attitudes, intergroup conflict, and political processes?”

Daniel Rovenpor completed his PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at The Ohio State University. Dr. Rovenpor conducts research at the intersection of emotion, attitudes, intergroup conflict, and political psychology. His research examines a number of related questions such as: Why are people sometimes motivated to feel negative emotions? How do emotions shape our attitudes? How do emotions relate to political identification and prejudice? How do motivations to feel good about the self influence intergroup conflict? This research aims to shed light on hidden motivations that end up leading people to feel suboptimal emotions, grow more confident in their attitudes, prolong intergroup conflict, and develop different political stances. This research has been recognized by awards from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the European Journal of Social Psychology.

Office: Baruch College, Vertical Campus, Rm: 8-287
E: daniel.rovenpor@baruch.cuny.edu Ph: (646) 312-3834
Lab Link: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/danielrovenpor

"How do people navigate social interactions following rejection?"

Kristin Sommer is Professor of Psychology at Baruch College, CUNY. She holds appointments on the doctoral faculties in Basic and Applied Social Psychology and Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the Graduate Center. Dr. Sommer’s research interests lie in the domain of social rejection and exclusion, broadly defined. Dr. Sommer teaches undergraduate and doctoral courses in research methods and social psychology. Her work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation. She sits on the editorial board of Social Influence and is a former Associate Editor of the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Office: Baruch College, Vertical Campus, Rm: 8-273
E: Kristin.Sommer@baruch.cuny.edu Ph: (646) 312-3812
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"Why do emotions sometimes improve thinking and remembering, and sometimes interfere with thinking and remembering?"

Justin earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Virginia, and did his postdoctoral training in EEG. His research focuses on the interactions of emotion and cognitive control and how those interactions influence metabolic expenditures and high-level cognition. In addition, he also examines how emotion influences perception, learning, and memory and false memories.

Office: Queens College, Science Building, Rm: D-312
E: Justin.storbeck@qc.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 997-3465
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"How does gender interact with other markers of identity, such as ethnicity, race, social class, sexual orientation? What are the underlying cognitive and social mechanisms that give rise to and sustain differences in evaluation??"

Virginia Valian investigates gender and its vicissitudes in men's and women's careers. Why do both men and women evaluate men more favorably in professional settings? How does gender interact with other markers of identity, such as ethnicity, race, social class, sexual orientation? What are the underlying cognitive and social mechanisms - such as schemas and cognitive heuristics - that give rise to and sustain differences in evaluation? What interventions can be effective in increasing gender equity and broad inclusiveness? Most broadly, Valian is interested in what is universal in human social perceptions.

Valian is co-founder and director of the Hunter College Gender Equity Project.  She performs work on the reasons behind women's slow advancement in the professions and proposes remedies for individuals and institutions.  She has written on sexual harassment, recognition, and on how to improve women's progress in the work world in general and academia in particular.  Valian also directs the Language Acquisition Research Center at Hunter College, which studies the acquisition of syntax in young children and the relation between bilingualism and cognition in adults.

Office: Hunter College, Thomas Hunter Hall, Rm: 510
E: vvvstudents@gmail.com Ph: 212-772-5557
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“How do quantitative methods advance research in psychology and management?”

Wei Wang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received an MS in Statistics, an MA in Social/Personality Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wang directs the Computational Psychology Lab at GC, which focuses on developing and applying quantitative methods to advance research in psychology and management. The current research in his lab centers on three themes: 1) Developing machine learning models with eye-tracking techniques to study individual differences that are critical for social functioning (e.g., emotional intelligence, leadership, etc.); 2) Applying both supervised and unsupervised machine learning models to analyze text data for psychological and managerial research (e.g., analyzing billions of Tweets to study well-being and stress, text mining diversity or DEI statements released by Fortune 1,000 companies to examine its antecedents and organizational consequences); 3) Using social network analysis to study behavioral and psychological contagion via network ties in various settings (e.g., turnover contagion, unethical behavior contagion, etc.). Dr. Wang also conducts advanced meta-analyses, including meta-analytic structural equation modeling and network meta-analysis. His research has been funded by both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH), and won the Best Convention Paper (and also the Best Papers) Awards from the Management of Academy (AOM).

Office: Graduate Center, Rm 6304-10
E: wwang@gc.cuny.edu Ph: 212-817-8714
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“What psychological factors impact the development of interracial friendships?”

My primary area of research explores the experiences of being the target of stereotyping and prejudice. Much of this research investigates how targets determine when they will be negatively stereotyped and how they then cope with that experience. My other area of research investigates how people perceive and interact with multiracial individuals. This research focuses on the differing ways that Whites and ethnic minorities perceive and interact with multiracial individuals.

Office: John Jay College, New Building, Rm: 10.65.191043
E:  dwout@jjay.cuny.edu Ph: (646) 557-4652
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