Join us as we wrap up the end of another academic year with a celebration!

Join us for an exciting day as BASP students present their first doctoral exams!

Join us for an exciting day as BASP students present their research!

Assistant Professor

Talk title: TBD

Bio: Yana Kuchirko is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College College.  She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from New York University. Dr. Kuchirko’s lab investigates cultural variation in socialization of children. Her work is grounded in theories and scholarship across disciplines, with an emphasis on critical perspectives, macro-level ideologies and narratives, and social constructions of childhood. Current research projects focus on understanding how parents across ethnic/racial groups construct and regulate children’s access to what they deem is emotionally “difficult knowledge” pertaining to race and racism. Students in the lab are leading investigations into a broad range of topics including anti-Asian discrimination and socialization of Asian-American youth, cultural factors shaping the identity of Indian adolescents, how gentrification in Newark shapes the identity of Black youth, and decolonizing the conceptualization and measurement of Mexican children’s cognitive development. Across all the studies, Dr. Kuchirko and her students employ various methods (e.g., observational, survey, visual, qualitative) to understand the contexts and discourses that shape the lives of young children.

Associate Professor

Talk title: TBD (Zoom link)

Bio: David Nussbaum is a social psychologist who works at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 2008 under the advisorship of Claude Steele and Carol Dweck. Dave grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and has lived in Chicago with his wife and two sons since 2009.

Dave is the editor of the SPSP blog, Character and Context, and has written for various publications in an effort to bring a well-grounded but accessible account of psychology to the public. Currently, Dave is working on a book, tentatively titled the Psychology of Nothing, exploring social psychology through the lens of the television series Seinfeld.

Associate Professor

Talk title: TBD

Bio: Eric Mandelbaum is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Mandelbaum conducts research on foundational issues in cognitive science, mostly pertaining to reasoning, cognitive architecture, and the structure of thought. Current projects include the rationality of automatic and unconscious reasoning, the role of processing fluency in judgments of truth, and profundity, and the role of retractions and negations in information processing. I also have long standing projects in attitude research, including models of belief acquisition, storage, and change, and the evidential responsiveness of implicit attitudes. In perception, I’m working on the interface of vision and cognition, as well as touch and thought, with a focus on the mid- to high-level concepts that these perceptual faculties output. In language my recent research interests have focused on the iconicity of language. Before coming to CUNY I’ve taught at Oxford, Yale, and Harvard, and have won awards from the Cognitive Science Society, the ACLS, the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, and the Templeton Foundation.

Professor

Talk title: Intro to ChatGPT

Bio: 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.

Associate Professor

Talk title: Text as Data for Research in Psychology

Bio: Wei Wang is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also a faculty member of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Baruch College and the Educational Psychology at the Graduate Center. His research interests primarily lie in quantitative methods and computational modeling, and their broad applications in various psychological, managerial, and educational areas. Currently. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation and won the Best Convention Paper Award from the Management of Academy (AOM). Before joining CUNY, Dr. Wang has experiences in both the academia (UCF, Northwestern University) and the consulting industry, where he worked as an R&D manager developing assessments (using IRT models and computer gamification simulations) for personnel selection and training for various companies, including tech giants.