Awards

BASP student Grace Flores-Robles was awarded the APA Division 35 Latina Student Scholar Award (2022).

Faculty member Ana Gantman and BASP alumnus Matt Goldberg were named APS Rising Stars (2022).

BASP student Jackie Katzman won 1 of 5 Outstanding Presentation Awards at the virtual APLS poster session (2021).

BASP student Jackie Katzman won the European Association for Psychology and Law Student Presentation Award (2021).

BASP student Bryant Gomez recently had his work profiled in Rutgers Today (2021).

BASP student Natalie Gordon was awarded the Presidential Prize for Public Communication (2021).

BASP alumna Jordan Wylie was awarded SPSP’s Outstanding Research Award (2021).

BASP alumni Katlyn Milless and Jordan Wylie were both awarded SPSP’s Janessa Shapiro Graduate Research Awards (2020).

Former BASP student Jordan Wylie was a summer fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and attended SISPP (2019).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received the American Psychology-Law Society Book Award (2018).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera was made a Fellow in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2018).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera was named a Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series (2017–2018).

Faculty member Sarit Golub was chosen as a Research Exemplar by the Professionalism & Integrity in Research Program (2017).

Inna Saboshchuk received a Student Travel Award from the American Psychological Association (2015).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2015).

Faculty member Tracey A. Revenson received the Nathan Perry Award for Career Contributions to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association, Division of Health Psychology (2014).

Kristi Gamarel (BASP ’14) received an Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (2014).                  

INTERNAL GRANT Funding

PSC-CUNY Research Awards

Grace Flores-Robles and Ana Gantman received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($11,039) for their project “Seeing and sanctioning systemic inequality” in 2022-2023.

Grace Flores-Robles and Ana Gantman received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($11,094) for their project titled: “For love or money? Understanding unique barriers to care workers’ labor organizing” in 2021-2022.

Andre Oliver and Catherine Good received a PSC-CUNY Research Award in 2021-2022.

Katlyn Milless, Maya Godbole, and Catherine Good received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($6,000) for their project titled: “Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline by Reducing the Punishment Gap” in 2020-2021.

Katlyn Milless and Daryl Wout received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($5,355) for their project titled: “Intersectional perspectives: An investigation of women of color’s person perception and experiences of attributional ambiguity” in 2019-2020.

Maureen Coyle and Cheryl Carmichael received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($3,323) for their project titled “The Communication of Perceived Responsiveness through Text Message” in 2017-2018.

Doctoral Student Research Grants

Alix Alto received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for their project in 2022-2023.

Jaclyn Doherty received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021-2022.

Grace Flores-Robles received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($961) for her project “For love or money? Understanding unique barriers to care workers’ labor organizing” in 2021-2022.

Andre Oliver received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for his project in 2021-2022.

Melanie Fessinger received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her in project 2021.

Rachel Fikslin received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021.

Jackie Katzman received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021.

Maureen Coyle received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,300) for her project in 2020-2021.

Katlyn Milless received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,492) for her project “A social justice approach to interventions: Women of color’s perceptions of STEM instructors” in 2020-2021.

Ryan Tracy received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($970) for his project in 2019-2020.

Katlyn Milless received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,470) for her project “Effects of representation and diversity on person perception” in 2018-2019.

Other Internal Grants and Funding

Former BASP student Katlyn Milless received the Ernesto Malave Merit Scholarship from the CUNY University Student Senate (2017).

Former BASP student Maureen Coyle received a University Fellowship Travel Award ($500) from the Graduate Center, CUNY to present work from her first doctoral project at a Digital Intimacies symposium at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (2017).

Noelle Malvar won an early research award ($4,000) from the joint Vera Institute of Justice/Graduate Center grant (2017).

EXTERNAL GRANT Funding

Faculty member Cheryl Carmichael received a 5-year CAREER Award ($896,346) from the National Science Foundation for her research on the communication of responsiveness entitled “Modeling Responsive Relationship Behavior: Channels of Communication, Social Benefits, and Mechanisms of Action.” (2020-2025).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received a grant ($199,619) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “COLLOBORATIVE RESEARCH: Social influence in eyewitness identification procedures: Do blind administrator behaviors magnify the effects of suspect bias?” (2021-2024)

Dual specialization Jackie Katzman and co-PI Margaret Bull Kovera received the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant ($20,000) for their project titled: “Examining the role of evidence-based suspicion in racial disparities in wrongful convictions” (2022-2023)

BASP student Jaclyn Doherty received a grant ($10,000) from the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society (2022).

Jordan Wylie was awarded the Psi Chi Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant ($1,498) for her project titled: “Doesn't everybody jaywalk? Racial disparities in the policing of rarely followed rules”. (2021).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera and co-author dual-specialization Natalie Gordon received a grant ($19,779) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “DDRIG: Improving the Accuracy of Juror Self-Reports of Bias during Rehabilitative Voir Dire.” (2019-2021)

Faculty member Cheryl Carmichael received a 2-year ADVANCE-IT Catalyst Award ($299,523) from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Supporting the Success of a Diverse STEM Faculty at Brooklyn College.” (2019-2021).

Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received a grant ($306,932) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “The Role of Phenotypic Bias in Eyewitness Identification Accuracy.” (2017-2021)

Maya Godbole was awarded a Claro Mayo Grant ($650) from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for her project titled: “Sex discrimination policies as a gateway to women’s representation.” (2019-2020)

Maya Godbole was awarded the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Ellin Bloch Psychological Science Research Grant ($1,000) for her project titled: “Sex discrimination policies: Increasing women’s participation, belonging, and performance.” (2019)

Noelle Malvar was awarded the SPSSI-Grants-in-Aid Award in (2019).

Faculty member Danielle Berke received a 4-year grant ($468,000) from the National Institutes of Health to study the trajectories and markers of risk and resilience among transgender trauma survivors using a multimethod longitudinal approach to rigorously assess the impact of daily discrimination and traumatic stress responses in this high-need population, informing PTSD prevention/intervention efforts.

Dual-specialization student Andrew Evelo received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($20,000) from the National Science Foundation for his dissertation entitled "Extra-Legal Information Transfer in Eyewitness Identification."

Faculty member Demis Glasford was awarded a 5-year grant ($1,000,000) from the Department of Homeland Security for research on majority-minority relations and education entitled "Disciplinary theory and Advanced social-behavioral sciences Research methods Training (DART)."

BASP student Katlyn Milless was awarded a research grant ($4,000) from the Diversity Projects Development Fund of the UACD for her work entitled "Assessing Sense of Belonging for Underrepresented Students in STEM."

Faculty member Michael Leippe was awarded a 3-year grant ($348, 750) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work entitled “Understanding and Reducing Biases in Jury Decision Making.”  

Faculty member Sarit Golub was awarded a 5-year grant ($2,982,362) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work entitled "Intervention to Enhance PrEP Uptake and Adherence in a Community-Based Setting."

Dual Specialization student Nikoleta Despodova was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship ($132,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Faculty member  Margaret Bull Kovera  was awarded a 2-year grant ($260,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her work entitled "Concurrent Expert Testimony as a Potential Remedy for Expert Witness Partisanship."

Recent publications

Godbole, M. A., Flores-Robles, G., Malvar, N. A., & Valian, V. V. (2022). Who do you like? Who will you vote for? Political ideology and person perception in the 2020 US presidential election. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/asap.12292

Kovera, M. B., & Evelo, A. J. (2020). Improving eyewitness identification evidence through double-blind lineup administration. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(6), 563–568. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721420969366

Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. (2020).  Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44(1), 3–36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000359

Kovera, M. B. (2019). Racial disparities in the criminal justice system: Prevalence, causes, and a search for solutions. Journal of Social Issues, 75, 1139–1164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josi.12355

Tracy, R. E., Wilson, J. P., Slepian, M. L., & Young, S. G. (2020). Facial trustworthiness predicts ingroup inclusion decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104047

Coyle, M. A., & Carmichael, C. L. (2019). Perceived responsiveness in text messaging: The role of emoji use. Computers in Human Behavior, 99, 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.023

Godbole, M. A., Malvar, N. A., & Valian, V. V. (2019). Gender, Modern Sexism, and the 2016 election. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 3, 700-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2019.1633934

Price, D. M., Fikslin, R. A., Goldberg, A. J., Gesselman, A. N., Loubriel, J. C., & Brooks, J. (2020). Sexual orientation and differences in HIV cognition. Personality and Individual Differences, 152, 109531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109531

Vanaman, M.E., Leggett, M.P., Crysel, L, & Askew, R.L. (2019). A novel measure of the need for moral cognition. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. doi: 10.1080/01973533.2018.1531000

Young, S. G., Tracy, R. E., Wilson, J. P., Rydell, R. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2019). The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103883