BASP Students
Alix Alto
Advisors: Ana Gantman, Daryl Wout
Research interests: My interest span political ideology, identity, imagination, and social cognition. Specifically, I'm interested in the relationships between group-based and ideological motivations and collective movements, with particular emphasis on left-wing politics, radical imagination, and the psychology of (anti-) capitalism.
Recent publications and presentations:
Wylie, J., Alto, A.T., Gantman, A. (in press). Imagining our moral values in the present and future. [Peer commentary on "Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds" by Dubourg, E., & Baumard, N.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Alto, A.T.*, Wylie, J.*, Anderson, K.*, Flores-Robles, G.*, Satter, L., & Gantman, A. (under review). “I put liberal, but LOL”: Psychology of the American Political Left.
Alto, A.T.., & Mandalaywala, T.M. (under review). Boys and girls, men and women: Do children take stimulus age into account when expressing gender stereotypes?
Alto, A.T., & Gantman, A. (2022, July). How do Leftists and Liberals think about liberty? Investigating concepts of positive and negative liberty on the United States left. [Paper]. International Society of Political Psychology 2022 Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece.
Alto, A.T.*, Wylie, J.*, Anderson, K.*, Flores-Robles, G.*, Satter, L., & Gantman, A. (2022, July). Anti-capitalism distinguishes Leftists from Liberals in the United States. [Paper]. International Society of Political Psychology 2022 Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece.
Alto, A.T. (Chair), Utopian Thinking, Radical Imagination, and Social Change. [Symposium]. Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention 2022, San Francisco, CA.
Email: agetreu@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Ellie Aronson
Advisors: Margaret Kovera, Kelly McWilliams,
Dual Specialization in BASP and Psych and Law
Research Interests: I’m interested in exploring how social psychology can inform attorney, eyewitness, and juror decision-making. For example, how do lineup administrators transmit subtle behavioral cues to eyewitnesses? How do prosecutors use motivated reasoning processes to justify unethical behavior (e.g., Brady Violations)? How might jurors be swayed by dramatic in-court identification procedures?
Recent publications and presentations:
Conti, K., Aronson, E., & McWilliams, K. (2022, March). Children’s ability to answer WH-questions about body movement and clothing placement. Poster presented at the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference.
Aronson, E., Fessinger, M., McAuliff, B., & McWilliams, K. (2021, March). How do jurors react when child witnesses say “I don’t know?”: The Broader Effects of the “Don’t Know” Instruction. Poster presented at the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, held remotely.
Kovera, M.B., & Aronson, E. (In press). Eyewitness Identifications. In Verona, E., & Fox, B., (Eds.), Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. Routledge.
Alexa Beacham
Primary Advisor: Sarit Golub
Secondary Advsor: Ana Gantman
Research Interests: My research explores how people use their social world -- including their online world on social media -- to make decisions regarding their sexuality and reproductive healthcare. I explore these questions because access to high-quality healthcare information is an essential resource, and one that is increasingly limited in our current political landscape. People often turn to social media in order to find information about their sexual health, but social media apps are not poised to systematically deliver high quality health information. My hope is that my work can help us understand how, and to what extent, people’s sexual health choices are guided by their social media exposure, and to what extent this limits sexual and reproductive agency.
Recent publications and presentations:
Beacham, A., Gantman, A., Golub, S. (2024, November 14-17). Let’s Tok about it: How Online Health Information Impacts Acceptability of the IUD [Conference Presentation]. The Society of the Scientific Study of Sexuality. Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, United States.
Dauber, S., Beacham, A., Hammond, C., West, A., & Thrul, J. (2022). Adaptive Text Messaging for Postpartum Risky Drinking: Conceptual Model and Protocol for an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(4), e36849.
O’Grady, M.A., Neighbors, C.J., Randrianarivony, R., Shapiro-Luft, D., Tempchin, J., Perez-Cubillan, Y., Collymore, D., Martin, K., Heyward, N., Wu, M., Beacham, A., & Greenfield, B. (in press). Identifying the Physical and Mental Healthcare Needs of Opioid Treatment Program Clients. Substance Use and Misuse.
O’Grady, M.A., Randrianarivony, R., Martin, K., Perez-Cubillan, Y., Collymore, D., Shapiro-Luft, D., Beacham, A., Heyward, N., & Greenfield, B., & Neighbors, C.J. (in press). Together in Care: Lessons Learned at the Intersection of Quality Improvement, Integrated Care, and Implementation Practice. Implementation Research and Practice.
Email: abeacham@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Gillian Burns
Advisors: Virginia Valian, Sarit Golub, Danielle Burke
Research interests: I am interested in exploring disability as identity, the intersectionality of disability with other stigmatized identities, and factors affecting stigma and social strength in the context of disability, particularly with respect to the autistic community. I also have an interest in how people interact with social robots and applications for robots in mental healthcare.
Recent publications:
Kitt, E.R., Crossman, M.K., Matijczak, A., Burns, G.B., & Kazdin, A.E. (2021). Evaluating the Role of a Socially Assistive Robot in Children's Mental Health Care. Journal of Children and Family Studies, 30(7), 1722-1735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-01977-5
Email: gburns@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Connie Chiu
Advisor: Ana Gantman, Curtis Hardin
Research interests: Broadly, Connie’s research focuses on biases in moral and political cognition. She is especially interested in how various contextual and dispositional factors affect people’s moral and political judgments. Previously, she has investigated this in the context of political misinformation and COVID-19 conspiracy theories in both China and the U.S. Currently, she is working with Dr. Gantman to investigate how cultural norms affect causal judgments and other contextual factors that affect how people think about rules and laws.
Recent publications and presentations:
Wylie, J., Chiu, C.P.Y., Dakin, N. M., Cunningham, W., Gantman, A. (Invited submission, forthcoming). The psychology of state punishment. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Chiu, C.P.Y., Wylie, J., Thumer, L., & Gantman, A. (February, 2024). Who caused the punishment? Cross-Cultural Variations in Causal and Counterfactual Judgments for Rarely Followed Rules. Poster presented at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Judgement and Decision-Making Pre-Conference, San Diego, CA.
Chan, H.W., Chiu, C.P.Y., Zuo, S.J., Xue, W., Liu, L., Yiu, D., Hong, Y.Y. (2021). Not- so-straightforward links between believing in COVID-19-related conspiracy theories and engaging in disease-preventive behaviours. Humanities and Social Science Communications, 8, 104. doi: 10.1057/s41599-021-00781-2
Email: pchiu@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniepychiu/
Jihye Choi
Advisors: Daniel Rovenpor, Gabe Camacho
Research Interests: I am interested in prejudice, stereotyping, justification and victim blaming! I also became interested in health psychology and morality recently.
Recent publications and presentations:
Bass, A., Choi, J., & Dickter, C. L. (2023). Perceptions of Black and White individuals sentenced for violent and nonviolent crimes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Email: jchoi6@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Nicolette Dakin
Primary Advisor: Ana Gantman
Secondary Advisor: Danielle Berke
Research Interests: My research interests are broadly in the domain of political psychology, particularly issues of radicalization and how perceived position in a given hierarchy impacts political attitudes. I explore these questions with a focus on authoritarianism, as well as understanding the psychological needs that motivate attitudes like climate skepticism and gender bias.
Recent publications and presentations:
Wylie, J., Chiu, C.P.Y., Dakin, N. M., Cunningham, W., Gantman, A. (Invited submission, forthcoming). The psychology of state punishment. European Journal of Social Psychology.
Dakin, N. M., Azevedo, F., & Jost, J. T. (2023). A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12913.
Dakin, N. (2023, February). "Married to gas”: Environmental attitudes among centrist and conservative men. Poster presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Conference, Sustainability Preconference.
Email: ndakin@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Nikoleta Despodova
Advisors: Margaret Bull-Kovera, Michael Leippe
Dual Specialization in BASP and Psych and Law
Research interests: My main interest pertains to research that aims to increase our understanding of jury decision-making. More specifically, I am interested in the effects of cross-examination and witness testimony on jurors' reasoning.
Recent publications and presentations:
Despodova, N., Perillo, J., Clatch, L., Teitcher, J., & Kovera, M. (2015, March). Effects of adversarial allegiance influence on the quality of reasoning displayed in expert evaluations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychology and Law Society, San Diego, CA
Perillo, J., Despodova, N., & Kovera, M. (2015, March). Attorney preferences for experts under adversarial and concurrent expert testimony conditions. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychology and Law Society, San Diego, CA
Grace Flores-Robles
Advisors: Ana Gantman, Virginia Valian
Research interests: My research explores the factors that make people see and challenge systemic injustice. I investigate this in several contexts, including workplace hierarchies, gender schemas, and labor organizing.
Recent publications and presentations:
Flores-Robles, G., Gantman, A.P. (forthcoming). Love vs. money: Understanding unique challenges in care workers’ labor organizing. In Matthew Lindauer (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy. [preprint]
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
Flores-Robles, G. (2022, May). Seeing and sanctioning system-level injustice. [Talk]. The Group for Empirical Approaches to Morality and Society (GEMS), NYC.
Email: gfloresrobles@gradcenter.cuny.edu; Twitter: @gfloresrob
Bryant Gomez
Advisors: Gabriel Camacho, Sarit Golub
Research interests: My research examines how identity, affective, and cultural processes influence experiences and self-understanding among systemically marginalized groups (e.g., Hispanic/Latines). Additionally, I explore how cultural mismatch and identity incongruence affect Hispanic/Latiné individuals’ identity safety and psychosocial outcomes with educational and healthcare settings. Before joining CUNY and HART, Bryant graduated from Bergen Community College with an A.S in Professional Studies and a B.A. in Psychology with Honors with a minor in Social Justice at Rutgers University-Newark in 2021. He was a McNair Scholar, Hispanic Foundations Scholar, Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC) scholar and a Post-Accelerator Fellow at Braven.
Recent presentations:
Gomez, B.N., & Camacho, G. (2024, October). There is no Place Like Home: Exploring Distance & Family Achievement Guilt on College Trajectories. Poster accepted for the 2024 National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) Annual Conference.
Gomez, B.N., Flores-Robles, G., Franklin, E.T., Fikslin, R., Milless, K.L., Anderson, K., & Myer, A. (2024, June). PhD Challenges: Experiences of Epistemic Exclusion & Family Achievement Guilt. Talk presented for the 2024 Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Annual Conference.
Gomez, B.N., Datta, D., Andrade, E., Beacham, A., Golub, S., Biel, R., & Patel, V. PrEPared for Navigation: Assessing an implementation science strategy for increasing PrEP uptake and sustainment among Black & Latino Sexual Minority Men in NYC. E-poster presentation for the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care Continuum (IAPAC) 2024 Conference.
Oliver, A., Milless, K., Godbole, M., Gomez, B.N., & Good, C. (2023) Stereotype Threat as an Identity Threat: Overview and Current Trends in Research. In Penelope W. St J. Watson (Eds.). The International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations. New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.
Gomez, B.G. (2022). Re-evaluating Support in Honors Scholar Programs among First Generation & BIPOC College Students. New Ideas Flash Talk presented at the Six College Conference, Online session.
Email: bgomez@gradcenter.cuny.edu; Twitter: @Bryant_Gomez1
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-gomez/
Ricky Granderson
Advisors: Cheryl Carmichael, Danielle Berke
Research interests: Ricky’s research explores the boundaries of acceptable intimate touch behaviors within heterosexual men’s homosocial friendships—as well as the cues, rewards, and punishments driving these experiences of platonic physical touch. This work is part of Ricky’s broader research agenda, which seeks to investigate intimate homosocial friendship as a mechanism by which contemporary men (mainly heterosexual, cisgender white men) can build community and pro-socially adapt to the rapid changes in status, power, institutions, acceptable limits of behavior, and understandings of men/masculinity; changes they currently seem to be struggling to adapt to, as evidenced by concordant increases in negative psychosocial outcomes (e.g., alienation, loneliness, suicide, alcoholism, political radicalization).
Recent publications and presentations:
Granderson, R.M., Carmichael, C., & Berke, D. (in press). An intimacy gap? Exploring U.S. men’s experience with and capacity for physical intimacy in their same-sex friendships. Psychology of Men and Masculinities.
Granderson, R. & Carmichael, C. (2024, July 5 – July 9). The Male Homosocial Physical Intimacy Gap and Men's Mental and Relational Well-Being [Symposium presentation]. Annual Meeting of the International Association for Relationship Research. Boston, MA, United States.
*Carlson, D.J., Granderson, R., Carmichael, C. (2024, February 8 – February 10) Masculine Contingency and Purposes of Male Homosocial Touch [Poster Presentation]. Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. San Diego, CA, United States.
Wong, Y. J., Granderson, R. M., Zounlome, N. O. O., McCullough, K. M., Hyman, J. E., & Schwabe, S. B. (2020). The assessment of subjective masculine norms in the United States. Psychology of Men and Masculinities. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000254
Fields, E. L., Long, A., Bademosi, K., Granderson, R., Schumacher, C. M., Chandran, A., Kingon, Y., & Jennings, J. M. (2020). Identifying Community-Informed Language to Promote HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Black LGBTQ Communities in Baltimore. AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 32(2), 152–168. https://doi.org/10.1521/aeap.2020.32.2.152
Granderson, R. M., Harper, G. W., Wade, R., Odero, W., Olwango, D. P. O., & Fields, E. L. (2019). Gender role strain and the precarious manhood of sexual minority Kenyan men. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000340
Fields, E., Long, A., Bademosi, K., Granderson, R., Schumacher, C., Chandran, A., ... & Jennings, J. (2019). 195.# Projectpresence: highlighting racial/ethnic minority LGBTQ communities through photo exhibitions to reduce stigma. Journal of Adolescent Health, 64(2), S99-S100.
Harper, G. W., Jadwin-Cakmak, L. A., Popoff, E., Campbell, B. A., Granderson, R., Wesp, L. M., & Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions. (2019). Transgender and other gender-diverse youth’s progression through the HIV continuum of care: socioecological system barriers. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 33(1), 32-43.
Stacie Keck
Advisor: Margaret Kovera
Research Interests: Eyewitness Identifications, Policing, Judicial Decision-Making
Email: skeck@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacie-keck/
Alexandra (Allie) LeeHoffman
Advisors: Daryl Wout, Virginia Valian
Research interests: Broadly, I am interested in experiences and perceptions of biracial and multiracial populations. My past research primarily focused on how appearance/phenotypical attributes and behavior affect how monoracial Asian individuals perceive Asian-White biracials' in-group or outgroup status. Continuing in this vein, I would like to examine more visual and behavior cues that affect perceptions of biracial individuals.
Email: aleehoffman@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Linkedin page: www.linkedin.com/in/allie-leehoffman
Jaleel King
Advisors: Margaret Kovera, Jacqueline Katzman
Dual Specialization in BASP and Psych and Law
Research interests: My main area of focus currently deals with police officer's use of Facial Recognition Technology. Specifically, how FRT is used to develop suspects and the consequences that comes from using such technology. The use of FRT by law enforcement is controversial as it has resulted in high-profile wrongful arrests. Yet little is known about how witnesses respond to lineups containing suspects generated by facial recognition algorithms or how jurors respond to identifications of suspects developed using this new technology.
Email: jking@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Jaleel’s Linkedin Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaleel-king-573042206/
Annalisa Myer
Advisors: Daryl Wout, Ana Gantman
Research interests: My research explores experiences of stereotyping and prejudice. Specifically, I investigate how individuals recognize and respond to these threats during interracial interactions. One key project examines how U.S. monoracial White participants' concerns of appearing prejudiced shape their interactions with Black-White Biracial individuals. By understanding these processes, my work aims to shed light on the ways individuals cope with and manage identity threats in diverse social contexts.
Recent publications and presentations:
Myer, A., & Wout, D. A. (in prep). Shifting Concerns Through Shared Identity: How Contextual Cues Shape White Identity Concerns when Interacting with Black-White Biracial Individuals. // Hudson, S. K. T. J., Myer, A., & Berney, E. C. (2024). Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender: An intersectional theory primer. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(2), e12939. // Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T. W., ... & Huang, G. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific data, 10(1), 272. // Myer, A. (2023). No Polícia, Mas Comida! Nourishing Minds, Not Policing Spaces. Available online at Spark: Elevating Scholarship on Social Issues.
Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G. d., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T., Myer, A.… Sampaio, W. M. (2022). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a3562
Myer, A. (2022). On Intersectionality and Scientific Rigor: Addressing the Grand Challenges of Psychological Science. Talk accepted to the CUNY Research Day Conference.
Myer, A. (2022). Et Tu, Biracials? Examining U.S. Black-White Biracials’ Racial Neighborhood Preferences. New ideas flash talk accepted to the 6CC Conference.
Myer, A. (2022). The Politics of Identity. Talk presented at St. Norbert College.
Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sj˚astad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlovi´c, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M. J., ... Myer, A .....& Boggio, P. S. (2021). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-14. Featured in the Editors’ Highlights webpage as one of the 50 best papers recently published in Social Sciences.
Email: amyer@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Twitter: @MyerAnnalisa
Luke Nicholls
Advisors: Cheryl Carmichael,
Research Interests: My research explores psychological responses to climate change, including mental health impacts and the role of perceived climate threat in motivating pro-environmental actions. Specifically, I’ve used experimental messaging studies to compare the differential effect of threat vs. efficacy-promoting climate rhetoric on beliefs, affect, and behavior. Additionally, I’m interested in the psychological implications of our interactions with increasingly human-like AI, such as effects on loneliness, social support, and health outcomes.
Recent publications and presentations:
Nicholls, L., & Carmichael, C. (2023, February). Evaluating threat and efficacy message components in climate change communication. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta.
Nicholls, L., Carmichael, C., Goldberg, M., Lacroix, K., Gustafson, A., Rosenthal, S., & Leiserowitz, A. (2022, June). Romantic partners’ climate engagement can motivate own pro-environmental behaviors. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology (APA Division 34), Virtual Conference.
Nicholls, L., Weiss, E., Todman, M., & Carmichael, C. (2022, February). The prevalence and correlates of climate change distress in the United States. Poster session presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Francisco.
Madeline Nickel
Advisors: Demis Glasford, Catherine Good
Research interests: My research interests include intergroup relations with a particular focus on achieving social justice for racial groups that are discriminated against. I am also interested in studying how racial stereotypes, prejudice, and societal structures continually serve as barriers to racial equity. I am excited to work on strategies to reduce racial discrimination while fostering harmonious intergroup relations, and to explore research questions related to collective action, protests, and social movements.
Recent publications and presentations:
Nickel, M., & Glasford, D. From injustice to inaction: The role of worldview threat in dampening collective action. Data Blitz presented at: 2022 Six College Conference; 2022 May 13; Virtual.
Nickel, M., & Glasford, D. When does reading about social injustice elicit worldview threat?. Poster presented at: 2022 Annual Meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology; 2022 February 16-19; San Francisco, CA.
Nickel, M., & Glasford, D. Worldview confirmation and the dampening of collective action. Talk presented at: 2021 Annual Meeting for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; 2021 August 2-5; Virtual.
Nickel, M., & Kawakami, K. The impact of perceived racial bias on face processing. Poster presented at: 2020 Annual Meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology; 2020 February 27-29; New Orleans, LA.
Email: mnickel@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Kerry O'Brien
Advisor: Catherine Good
Research interests: My research centers around gender dynamics within the home, especially regarding home-based relational conflicts. My work examines the various factors that lead to unequal divisions of physical and mental labor among cohabitating couples, as well as the consequences that such labor imbalance can have on couples.
Recent publications and presentations:
Moss-Racusin, C. A., Croft, A., Rapp, S., O’Brien, K. A., & Brown, S. (2022). Gender bias targeting men produces gender gaps in engagement with female-stereotypic domains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Moss-Racusin, C. A., Schofield, C. A., Brown, S., & O’Brien, K. A. (2020). Breast is (Viewed as) best: Demonstrating formula feeding stigma. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 44(4), 503-520.
Email: kobrien@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Kerry’s Linkedin Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerry-o-brien-aa10b0197/
Andre Oliver
Advisors: Daryl Wout, Catherine Good
Research interests: A passion for social justice, social equity, diversity, and inclusion drives all my research. My research has two main focuses. In the first focus, I Investigate how social identity and identity concerns shape people’s perceptions of others and influence behavior. This research includes investigating how social identity and social identity threat affect people’s mental representations (i.e., mental images) and perceptions of specific social categories (e.g., Black men, STEM professors, police officers) and individuals that belong to multiple social categories (e.g., Biracial/Multiracial people, Black women, female STEM professors, Black police officers). Secondly, I focus on applying social psychological research to affect social equality in policy (e.g., reparative policies), education (e.g., STEM fields), and intergroup interactions (e.g., interracial interactions). For example, I apply moral psychology and social identity theory to developing interventions to increase support for policies that promote social equity (e.g., reparative action) as well as growth mindset interventions that foster feelings of belonging among female STEM students.
Recent publications and presentations:
Oliver, A., Tracy, R. E., Young, S. G., & Wout, D. A. (2023). Black + White = prototypically Black: Visualizing Black and White people’s mental representations of Black-White Biracial people. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231164026
Oliver, A., Ghilamichael, A., King, C. R., Wallace, L., McDougal, S., Monteiro K., & Ben-Zeev, A. (2017). ‘I’m Black and I’m proud’: A majority ecological context protects affective aspects of Black identity under stereotype threat. Race and Social Problems, 9, 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-017-9216-y
Email: aoliver@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Website: http://andreoliver.info/
Haniya Rumaney
Advisors: Gabriel Camacho, Daryl Wout, Sarit Golub
Research interests: Haniya's research interests primarily revolve around investigating the antecedents and consequences of religious and other identity-based stigma using social identity and intersectionality frameworks. In the past, she has conducted stigma and prejudice-focused research by employing survey experiments and natural language processing techniques. She has three lines of research: a) The impact of superordinate national identity on intergroup cohesion for subordinate religious groups in India, b) The effects of stigma salience on endorsement of conspiracy theories among ethnic and religious minorities, and c) The impact of using racial language in perceptions of legitimacy of Islamophobic discrimination. Prior to joining her graduate program, Haniya worked at the Sidanius Lab at Harvard University, and was a research assistant and program manager for a project funded by the International Growth Centre, UK. Haniya has a Masters in Applied Psychology from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
Recent publications and presentations:
Ghani, A., Hudson S.T.J., Rumaney, H., & Sidanius, J. (2023). Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecifed, the default is men. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. Advance online publication DOI:10.1037/rel0000500
Rumaney, H. (2024). Investigating the impact of stigma salience on conspiracy endorsement. First Doctoral Exam Results Presentation and Defense, CUNY Graduate Center, 2024.
Rumaney, H. & Camacho, G. (2024). They’re out to get us!: Investigating the impact of stigma salience on conspiracy endorsement. SPSP Annual conference, San Diego, 2024 Rumaney, H., & Sriram, S. (2023). Not Without My Hijab: Experiences of Veiled Muslim Women in India. Human Arenas. DOI: 10.1007/s42087-021-00193-3
Ghani, A., Hudson, S. T. J., Rumaney, H., & Sidanius, J. (2022). Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f564s
Puthillam, A* & Rumaney, H.* (2022). Applying to Social Psych PhDs as an International student: An informal, subjective guide. https://osf.io/bxygh
Rumaney, H., & Sriram, S. (2021). Not Without My Hijab: Experiences of Veiled Muslim Women in India. Human Arenas. DOI: http://10.1007/s42087-021-00193-3
Email: hrumaney@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Website link: https://hrumaney.netlify.app/’
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haniyarumaney/
Maria Sobrino
Advisors: Sarit Golub, Danielle Berke
Research interests: Maria's research is grounded and contextualized in strengths-based and community-based participatory methodology and is broadly aimed at interrogating societal conceptualizations of risky behaviors, examining the protective psychological factors that buffer against stigma, exploring the social and structural context of substance use and disease transmission, and scaling up harm reduction efforts. Prior to coming to HART, Maria developed a repertoire of trans- and interdisciplinary skills and perspectives through her work at the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, the National Drug Early Warning System Project, and the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab at the UNC Chapel Hill. She graduated from the University of Florida with dual bachelor’s degrees in English and psychology.
Recent publications and presentations:
Telzer, E.H., Dai, J., Capella, J.J., Sobrino, M., Garrett S.L. (2022). Challenging Stereotypes of Teens: Reframing Adolescence as Window of Opportunity.
Mosley, D.V., Bellamy, P., Bridges, B., Sobrino, M., Mejia, J., Adam, S., Ross, G., Abreu, R. (2022). Decolonial Psychology: Theory, Research, Training, and Practice: Moving Psychology Toward Anticolonial Queer Futures.
Takenaka, B.P., Sobrino, M., Bustamante, M.J., (in preparation). Characterization of Neighborhood Violence and HIV/STI Testing Among Young Sexual Minority Youth in the United States (Data analyzed, manuscript in progress).
Sobrino, M., Takenaka, B.P., Weerakoon, S., Herrera, C., Flores, J., Bustamante, M.J., Johnson, R., Ansarizadeh, K., Nwaozuru, U. (2024, July) Characterization of Neighborhood Violence and HIV/STI Testing Among Sexual Minority Youth in the United States Using the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System. Poster accepted for presentation at the 2024 International Aids Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science, Munich,
Email: msobrino@gradcenter.cuny.edu
@MSobrinoHerrero on X
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-sobrino
Joseluz Sosa
Advisors: Gabriel Camacho, Daryl Wout,
Research interests:My research is at the intersection of stigma and identity. Specifically, I am interested in Latinx folks, peoples with disabilities, and their educational contexts. More recently, I am exploring how prototypicality and self-perceived distance from the "mean" can influence a person's ability to disclose identity and access resources.
Email: jsosa@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseluz-sosa-563a0360/
Natalie Tesfamicael
Advisors: Margaret Kovera
Research Interests: Legal decision making
Amy Wang
Advisors: Catherine Good, Daniel Rovenpor
Research interests: In general, I am interested in improving the student experience and reducing race- and gender-related inequities within STEM classrooms. This includes both academic and sociopsychological outcomes, such as bolstering growth mindset, sense of belonging, and intrinsic motivation, as well as reducing stereotype threat.
Recent publications and presentations:
Wang, S.-Y. A. (2023, May 12). Exclusionary school discipline and mental health among system-impacted girls of color [Presentation]. NYU Applied Psychology Research Conference, New York, NY, United States.
Email: swang3@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Carly Wolfer
Advisor: Cheryl Carmichael
Research interests: My research uses a feminist, sex-positive lens to explore the multi-level barriers and facilitators to sexual and relational wellness. Specifically, I investigate how individual (e.g. attachment style, gender identity and expression), interpersonal (e.g. communication, responsiveness, touch), and socio-cultural (e.g. sexual and romantic scripts, gender norms, stigma) factors support or stifle sexual pleasure equity, relationship functioning, and health in casual and committed relationship structures across the lifespan. Ultimately, I am passionate about developing socio-emotional and sex education programming aimed at optimizing sexual and relational well-being among diverse individuals and relationships who have been historically muted in discourses of desire.
Recent publications and presentations:
Wolfer, C., Carmichael, C. L. (2024, Nov 13-17). Can we increase men’s pursuit of women’s orgasm? The role of gender inequity awareness and relationship commitment.
Wolfer, C., Wetzel, G. (co-chairs), “A” for effort: A comprehensive overview of orgasm goal pursuit as an individual, interpersonal, and contextual process. [Symposium]. The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) 2024 Annual Convention, San Diego, CA. Talan, A. J.,
Wolfer, C., Tavella, N., Cabral, C., Despradel, R., & Rendina, H. J. (2024). Engaging sexual minority adolescents in nationwide at-home HIV prevention research. Preventive Medicine Reports, 102907. Golub A., S., Wolfer, C. (in press).
Developing a practice-driven taxonomy of implementation strategies for HIV prevention. The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS).
Golub S. A., Wolfer, C. Beacham, A., Lane, B. V., Chastain, C. A., Meyers, K. A., (in press). Increasing the accessibility and relevance of implementation science for front-line implementers. The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS).
Wolfer, C., Carmichael, C. L. (2024, July). Asymmetric orgasm pursuit: Using interdependence theory to explain and bridge the orgasm gap in the heterosexual relationships. Talk presented at The International Association of Relationship Research (IARR) 2024 Conference, Boston, MA.
Wolfer, C., Carmichael, C. L. (2024, February). Come here often? A mixed-methods examination of interdependent orgasm communication. Data Blitz presented at The Sexuality Pre-Conference at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s (SPSP) 2024 Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.
Wolfer, C., Tilove, A., Sizemore, K.M., Rendina, H. J., Wells, B., Golub, S. (2020, November). Experimentation in emerging adulthood and alcohol expectancies regarding sexual vulnerability: Testing a three-way interaction with gender and sexual orientation. Paper presented at The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) 2020 Global Sex Research Virtual Conference.
Sizemore, M., Wolfer, C., Gray, S., Talan, A., Park, H., & Rendina, H. J. (2020, April). Adapting a positive affect intervention for mobile delivery: Development of the Positively Healthy ecological momentary intervention. Paper accepted for presentation at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA.
Millar, B.M., Wolfer, C., Shalhav, O., Talan, A., Rendina, H. J. (2019, September). Sleep: Fuel for good mood, self-efficacy, and medication adherence among older men living with HIV. Poster presented at The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Wolfer, C., Ake, J., English, T. (2019, November). Gender and communication as predictors of sexual health and satisfaction in the college hookup culture. Poster presented at The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Wolfer, C. (2018). "Let's Talk about Sex, Baby: Communication between Casual Sexual Partners in the College Hookup Culture". Washington University Senior Honors Thesis Abstracts: WUSHTA, Spring 2018. 138. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wushta_spr2018/138
Email: cwolfer@gradcenter.cuny.edu