January 23rd, 2009
About Me
I am a third-year PhD candidate in Social Psychology at Rutgers University. My advisors are Lee Jussim and David Wilder.
My research interests involve stereotyping and discrimination. More specifically I’m interested in religious discrimination – meaning discrimination against people who have a specific religious affiliation. I am also interested in factors that may increase or decrease discriminatory behavior such as individuating information, prejudice, and personality correlates (such as right-wing authoritarianism, liberalism, conservatism, social dominance orientation, etc.). For example, my Master’s thesis examined ethnic and religious discrimination by measuring discriminatory behavior against Arabs and Muslims. I am launching a series of studies that examine modern anti-Semitism and another set that investigates discrimination against women who wear the hijab. Additionally, I am conducting experiments that seek to validate the Moral Foundations Theory and examine the accumulation of self-fulfilling prophecies across perceivers.
