Danielle Berke

Elisabeth Brauner

Claudia Brumbaugh

Gabriel Camacho

Cheryl Carmichael

Ana Gantman

Sarit Golub

Catherine Good

Curtis Hardin

Margaret Bull Kovera

Jacqueline Katzman

Yana Kuchirko

Julia Lechuga

Matthew Lindauer

Eric Mandelbaum

Hannah Nam

Jaihyun Park

Tracey Revenson

Daniel Rovenpor

Kristin Sommer

Justin Storbeck

Virginia Valian

Wei Wang

Daryl Wout

“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 Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at New York University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her lab is focused on moral psychology—how people judge what is right and wrong, and what they do with those judgments–seeking the hidden traces of our moral values in places we might not expect them. For example, the lab studies why people are fascinated by villains, how to understand and prevent sexual violence, why people are reluctant to pay care professionals, why people opt for arbitrary rules, and how our own idiosyncratic sense of who should be punished affects enforcement of the law. Broadly, she studies how moral values tune our understanding of the law and public policy, pique our curiosity and hold our attention. Prof. Gantman has received an Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research from Brooklyn College in 2023, 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, Rm 4307b
E: ana.gantman@brooklyn.cuny.edu Ph: (718) 951-3896
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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?"

Dr. Good received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Kansas in 1994 and an Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in mathematics education and social psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2001. While a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University from 2001-2005 she developed a research program that focuses on the social forces that shape academic achievement, learning, motivation, and self-image, particularly for females in STEM disciplines. In particular, she studies the effects of stereotype threat and develops interventions to help students overcome its effects. Specifically, she focuses on increasing students’ sense of belonging to STEM disciplines and fostering incremental views of intelligence as methods of combating the cultural stereotypes.

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 an internationally recognized expert on eyewitness identification and legal decision making. For over twenty-five years, she has had continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for her research, which has been published in Law and Human Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Research in Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Her book, The psychology of juries (published by the American Psychological Association), received the 2018 American Psychology-Law Society Book Award. She is 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 a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology-Law Society (APLS), the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). 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), and the Distinguished Service Award (SPSSI). 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 socially constructed? How are children in different communities socialized at the intersections of culture, race/ethnicity, gender, and class?”

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.

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 does emotion shape basic psychological processes (attitudes, social cognition, motivation) and broader societal issues (intergroup conflict, political/moral cognition, and support for social justice)?”

Daniel Rovenpor completed his PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was a postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University, and served as a faculty member at the University of East Anglia. His research examines A) how emotions shape attitudes and social cognition, B) the role of motivation in emotional experiences, and C) how emotional processes influence broader societal issues, including intergroup conflict, prejudice, political/moral cognition, support for social justice, and efforts to reduce economic inequality. His research considers the intersection of emotional and societal processes in an effort to find novel ways of addressing both.

Office: Baruch College
E: daniel.rovenpor@baruch.cuny.edu Ph: (212) 396-6769

"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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Gender Equity Project

“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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