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Bernhard Leidner, curriculum vitae (last updated on February 15, 2020)

Address:

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Psychology of Peace and Violence Program
135 Hicks Way, Tobin Hall, Room 639            
Amherst, MA 01003


Cell:

+1 (646) 207-3513


Email:

bleidner@psych.umass.edu

Country of Birth:

Germany


Citizenship:

German


Residency status:

U.S. Permanent Residency (‘green card’)
 

Intro
Hello, I'm Berni!

After pursuing my Ph.D. in Social Psychology at The New School for Social Research and doing a brief postdoc at the University of California, Davis, I joined the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at UMass in summer 2011.

 

I consider myself a social and political psychologist, for my scholarly interest is in processes of social identification and intergroup relations, primarily in the context of large social categories such as nations and ethnic groups. Specifically, my research is at the cross-road of the social psychological areas of norms and morality (e.g., moral disengagement in response to ingroup wrongdoings) and justice (e.g., reparations after ingroup wrongdoings; conflict resolution). I am currently interested in the psychological underpinnings of international justice (e.g. criminal tribunals, truth commissions) as well as the biopsychological consequences of ingroup-committed violence (stress, health).

Intergroup conflict, violence, and peace

Justice

Conflict resolution and reconciliation

Morality, moral disengagement and morality shifting

Collective/social identity

Group processes and intergroup relations

Research interests
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION
2007-2010

The New School for Social Research, NY, USA
Ph.D. in Cognitive, Social, and Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Emanuele Castano
Dissertation Title: Morality shifting in the context of collective violence

2006-2007

The New School for Social Research, NY, USA
Advanced M.A. in General Psychology
Advisor: Emanuele Castano

Summer 2006

Stanford University, CA, USA
Virtual Summer Institute for Political Psychology

2002-2006

Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Diploma (German equivalent to M.A.) in Psychology

Advisor: Bettina Hannover

Education
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Academic & professional appointments
2011-

Assistant Professor, Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA

2010-2011

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis, CA, USA

2009-2010

Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology
The New School for Social Research, NY, USA

HONORS AND AWARDS
2014

Exceptional Merit Award (UMass Amherst, university-wide award)

2013

Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star Award

2009

SPSP Diversity Fund Award

2008-2009

NSF Facilitation Award for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities

Honors & Awards
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2016-2019

National Science Foundation (NSF BCS-1628458), Collaborative NSF-BSF Proposal: How Past Collective Trauma of Suffering and Perpetrating Intergroup Violence Can Facilitate or Prevent Intergroup Violence in the Present, Principal investigator, total of $654,583 ($444,583 from NSF, $210,000 from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation) (awarded)

2013-2017

National Science Foundation (NSF BCS-1324097), Approaches to the Aftermath of Intergroup Violence: Effects of Impunity, Trials, and Truth Commissions on Intergroup Peace and Reconciliation Between Victims and Perpetrators, Principal investigator, $374,875 (awarded)

2013-2015

American Psychological Foundation (APF), From the Laboratory to Field-Experimental Interventions: Understanding and Improving the Justice Discourse in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Resolution, Principal investigator, $17,337.50 (awarded)

2013-2015

International Peace Research Association Foundation (IPRAF), Understanding and Alleviating Competitive Victimhood to Promote Intergroup Reconciliation: A Needs-Based Intervention to Counter the Effects of Fear of Loss of Third-Party Support on Competitive Victimhood, Principal investigator, $4,000 (awarded)

2012-2014

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Understanding and Alleviating Competitive Victimhood to Promote Intergroup Reconciliation: A Needs-Based Intervention to Counter the Effects of Fear of Loss of Third-Party Support on Competitive Victimhood, Principal investigator, $2,000 (awarded)

Honors Commonwealth College of Massachusetts, Use the Stick or the Carrot to Resolve International Conflict? – The Effects of American Threats to Punish, or Offers to Reward, Israel to Compromise Over Peace Deals in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Co-principal investigator, $1,000 (awarded)

2014
2012-2013

Service-Learning Faculty Fellowship, UMass Amherst, $1,000 (awarded)

2014

Honors Commonwealth College of Massachusetts, Self or no-self? When, how, and for whom can a Buddhist-constructivist-scientific view of the self increase human ethics and compassion?, Co-principal investigator, $1,000 (awarded)

2009-2011

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, When We Torture – Moral and Pragmatic Arguments For and Against Torture, and Their Effect on Public Support For Redressing Past and Preventing Future Injustice, Co-principal investigator, $31,025 (awarded)

2008-2009

Dissertation Fellowship, The New School for Social Research, $10,000 (awarded)

2008

Psychology and Social Justice (PASJ) Conference 2008, Diversity Committee, The New School for Social Research, Co-organizer, $2,000 (awarded)

2006-2009

Prize Fellowship, The New School for Social Research, $100,000 (awarded)

2006-2008

Stipend for young scientists, Gottlieb Daimler- und Carl Benz-Foundation (Germany), $96,000 (awarded)

Grants & Fellowships
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

* indicates my students/mentees

** authors share first authorship and order was determined randomly

Li, M.*, Leidner, B., & Fernandez-Campos, S. (in press). Stepping into perpetrators’ shoes: How ingroup transgressions and victimization shape support for justice through perspective-taking with perpetrators. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Selvanathan, H. P.*, & Leidner, B. (in press). Modes of ingroup identification and notions of justice provide distinct pathways to normative and nonnormative collective action. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Kardos, P.*, Leidner, B., Castano, E., & Lickel, B. (2019). The benefits of collective responsibility: How ingroup reputation concern motivates prosociality in intergroup contexts. European Journal of Social Psychology.

McLamore, Q. J.*, Adelman, L.*, & Leidner, B. (2019). Challenging traditional narratives of intractable conflict: Focusing on both sides’ suffering decreases ingroup glorification among Jewish Israelis and Americans. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Orazani, S. N.*, & Leidner, B. (2019). The power of nonviolence: Confirming and explaining the success of nonviolent (rather than violent) political movements. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Li, M.*, Leidner, B., Petrovic, N., Orazani, S. N.*, & Rad, M. S. (2018). The role of retributive justice and the use of international criminal tribunals in post-conflict reconciliation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(2), 133-151.

Leidner, B., & Ginges, J. (2017). What you ask is what you get: Assessments of citizens’ support for military action, but not diplomacy, depend on question framing. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 17(1), 184-204.

 

Kardos, P.*, Leidner, B., Pléh, C., Soltész, P., & Unoka, Z. (2017). Empathic people have more friends: Empathic abilities predict social network size and position in social network predicts empathic efforts. Social Networks, 50, 1-5.

Leidner, B., Kardos, P.*, & Castano, E. (2017). The effects of moral versus pragmatic arguments against torture on demands for judicial reform. Political Psychology.

O’Brien, T.*, Leidner, B., & Tropp, L. R. (2017). Are they for us or against us? How intergroup metaperceptions shape foreign policy attitudes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Adelman, L.*, Leidner, B., Ünal, H.*, Nahhas, E., & Shnabel, N. (2016). A whole other story: Alternative narratives of intergroup conflict reduce competitive victimhood and intergroup hostility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(10), 1416-1430.

Hirschberger, G., Ein-Dor, T., Leidner, B., & Saguy, T. (2016). How is existential threat related to intergroup conflict? Introducing the Multidimensional Existential Threat (MET) Model. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

Kardos, P.*, Leidner, B., Zsolnai, L., & Castano, E. (2016). The effect of the belief in free market ideology on redressing corporate injustice. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Li, M.*, Leidner, B., Euh, H., & Choi, H.-S. (2016). The contagion of interstate violence: Reminders of historical interstate (but not intrastate) violence increase support for future violence against unrelated third-party states. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 4(28), 1003-1024.

Li, M.*, Rovenpor, D.*, & Leidner, B. (2016). Regulating the scope of an emotion regulation perspective on intergroup reconciliation. Psychological Inquiry, 27(2), 117-123.

Rovenpor, D.*, Leidner, B., Kardos, P.*, & O’Brien, T. C.* (2016). Meaning threat can promote peaceful, not only military-based approaches to intergroup conflict: The moderating role of ingroup glorification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46(5), 544-562.

Leidner, B. (2015). America and the age of genocide: Labeling a third-party conflict “genocide” decreases support for intervention among ingroup-glorifying Americans because they down-regulate guilt and perceived responsibility to intervene. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(12), 1623-1645.

Leidner, B., & Li, M.* (2015). How to (re)build human rights consciousness and behavior in postconflict societies: An integrative literature review and framework for past and future research. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(1), 106-132.

Leidner, B., Li, M.*, & Kardos, P.* (2015). Healthy and unhealthy wars: The effects of ingroup-committed violence on physical and mental health. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(3), 334-358.

Li, M.*, Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (2014). Toward a comprehensive taxonomy of dehumanization: Integrating two senses of humanness, mind perception theory, and stereotype content model. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 21, 285-300.

Leidner, B., Tropp, L. R., & Lickel, B. (2013). Bringing science to bear – on peace, not war: Elaborating on psychology’s potential to promote peace. American Psychologist, 68(7), 514-526.

Leidner, B., Castano, E., & Ginges, J. (2013). Dehumanization, retributive and restorative justice, and aggressive versus diplomatic intergroup conflict resolution strategies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(2), 181-192.

Leidner, B., Sheikh, H., & Ginges, J. (2012). Affective dimensions of intergroup humiliation. PLosOne, 7(9), 1-6.

Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (2012). Morality shifting in the context of intergroup violence. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42(1), 82-91.

 

Braun, E., Woodley, A., Richardson, J. T., & Leidner, B. (2012). Self-rated competences questionnaires from a design perspective. Educational Research Review, 7(1), 1-18.

 

Castano, E., Leidner, B., Bonacossa, A., Nikkah, J., Perrulli, R., Spencer, B., & Humphrey, N. (2011). Ideology, fear of death, and death anxiety. Political Psychology, 32(4), 601-621.

 

Loughnan, S., Kuppens, P., Allik, J., Balasz, K., de Lemus, S., Dumont, K., Gargurevich, R., Hidegkuti, I., Leidner, B., Matos, L., Park, J., Realo, A., Shi, J., Sojo, V., Tong, Y.-Y., Vaes, J., Verduyn, P., Yeung, V., & Haslam, N. (2011). Social inequality is linked to biased self-perception. Psychological Science, 22(10), 1254-1258.

 

Leidner, B., Castano, E., Zaiser, E., & Giner-Sorolla, R. (2010). Ingroup glorification, moral disengagement, and justice in the context of collective violence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(8), 1115-1129.

 

Loughnan, S., Leidner, B., Doron, G., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Tong, J., & Yeung, V. (2010). Universal biases in self-perception: Better and more human than average. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49(3), 627-636.

 

Braun, E., & Leidner, B. (2009). Theoretical and empirical distinctions between self-rated competences and satisfaction with teaching behaviour within academic course evaluation. European Psychologist, 14(4), 297-306.

 

Castano, E., Leidner, B., & Slawuta, P. (2008). Social identification processes, group dynamics and the behaviour of combatants. International Red Cross Review, 90, 259-271.

 

Braun, E., Gusy, B., Leidner, B., & Hannover, B. (2008). Competence-oriented academic course evaluation. The Berlin Evaluation Instrument for Self-reported Student Competencies (BEvaKomp). Diagnostica, 54(1), 30-43.

Refereed publications
HANDBOOK CHAPTERS
Chapters
BOOK CHAPTERS

Li, M.*, & Leidner, B. (2019). Understanding Intergroup Violence and Its Aftermath from Perpetrator and Victim Perspectives. To appear in L. S. Newman (Ed.), Why are they doing this to us? The social psychology of genocide and extreme intergroup violence. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Adelman, L.*, Orazani, S. N.*, & Leidner, B. (2017). Psychological contributions to philosophy: The cases of Just War Theory and nonviolence. To appear in F. Demont (Ed.), Peace & the Morality of Armed Conflict. New York, NY: Routledge.

Leidner, B. (2013). Dehumanisierung [Dehumanization]. In Hartmut Häcker (Ed.), Dorsch Psychologisches Wörterbuch. [Dorsch Psychological Encyclopedia] Bern, Switzerland: Huber.

Giner-Sorolla, R., Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (2011). Dehumanization, demonization, and morality shifting: Paths to moral certainty in extremist violence. In M. A. Hogg & D. L. Blaylock (Eds.), Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty (pp. 165-182). Boston, MA, US: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Leidner, B., & Braun, E. (2007). Academic course evaluation: Competencies versus satisfaction. In S. Preiser, M. Kraemer, & K. Brusdeylins (Eds.), Psychology didactics and evaluation VI (pp. 309-316). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Leidner, B. (February 2017). International (In-)Justice. Talk given at the Psychology & Law preconference of the 18th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Antonio, TX, USA.

Leidner, B. (September 2012). Morality and Justice in the Context of Intergroup Violence. Talk given at the University of Connecticut Psychology Speaker Series, Storrs, CO, USA.

 

Leidner, B. (October 2008). Participation in a panel discussion on the topic „Deutschlands Zukunft als exzellenter Standort fuer Nachwuchswissenschaftler“ [Germany’s future as an excellent place for young scientists] at the congress „Lust auf wissenschaftliche Karriere in Deutschland! Wege, Foerderungen und Netzwerke im Ueberblick“ [Motivated for an academic career in Germany! Paths, fellowships and networks in brief], organized by RWTH Aachen and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Berlin, Germany.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND SYMPOSIA
Presentations

Leidner, B. (July 2018). Intergroup Conflict As a Source of Meaning and Its Implications for Conflict (De-)Escalation. Talk given at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), San Antonio, TX, USA.

Leidner, B. (June 2018). The Role of Retributive Justice and the Use of International Criminal Tribunal in Post-conflict Reconciliation. Talk given at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Leidner, B. (March 2018). Intergroup Conflict Self-Perpetuates via Meaning: Exposure to Intergroup Conflict Increases Meaning and Fuels a Desire for Further Conflict. Talk given at the 19th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA, USA.

Li, M.*, & Leidner, B. (March 2018). Challenges and Advances in Research on Intergroup Violence. Symposium chaired the 19th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Atlanta, GA, USA.

Leidner, B. & Li, M.* (August 2015). How to (re-)build human rights consciousness and behavior in post-conflict societies. Talk given at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA), Toronto, Canada.

 

Leidner, B. (May 2015). Challenges and opportunities for intergroup reconciliation: An integration of victim and perpetrator perspectives from multiple countries. Symposium chaired at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Psychological Science (APS), New York, NY, USA.

 

Leidner, B., Li, M.*, & Kardos, P.* (April 2015). Healthy and unhealthy wars: The effects of ingroup-committed violence on stress and health. Talk given at the Society for Australasian Social Psychology (SASP) and Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Small Group Meeting on Collective Harm-doing, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Leidner, B. & Li, M.* (July 2014). Conflict resolution and reconciliation from victim and perpetrator perspective: How ingroup victimization and ingroup transgressions shape people’s willingness to reconcile through demands for retributive and restorative justice, and support for future violence. Talk given at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Rome, Italy.

 

Leidner, B., Castano, E., & Kardos, P.* (July 2014). Morality’s potential to motivate collective action and social change. Talk given at the 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Li, M.*, & Leidner, B. (February 2014). Conflict resolution and reconciliation from victim and perpetrator perspective. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Austin, TX, USA.

 

Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (January 2013). The great moral divide: Investigations of the malleability of moral foundations and judgments. Talk given at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), New Orleans, LA, USA.

 

Leidner, B., Castano, E., & Ginges, J. (September 2012). Dehumanization, retributive and restorative justice, and aggressive versus diplomatic intergroup conflict resolution strategies. Talk given at the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Small Group Meeting on Intergroup Reconciliation, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

 

Leidner, B., Castano, E., & Ginges, J. (July 2012). Perceived outgroup sentience and notions of justice in intergroup conflict. Talk given at the 35th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Chicago, IL, USA.

 

Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (February 2009). Morality shifting. Poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Tampa, FL, USA.

 

Leidner, B., & Braun, E. (July 2008). Academic course evaluation: Competences versus satisfaction. Talk given at the XXIX. International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (June 2008). Justice for All! But for an outgroup we wronged? – Punishment and reparations in the context of collective wrongdoings. Talk given at the 11th Jena Workshop on Intergroup Processes, Jena, Germany.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (June 2008). From national glorification through moral disengagement to appraisals of justice. Poster presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), Opatija, Croatia.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (June 2008). Denying human nature to victims of the ingroup. Talk given at the European Association for Experimental Social Psychology’s (EAESP) Small Group Meeting on Dehumanization: Determinants and Consequences of Perceiving Others as Less Than Humans, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (February 2008). The language of moral disengagement: How individuals communicate about collective misdeeds. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Albuquerque, NM, USA.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (October 2007). Moral disengagement strategies and group-based emotions. Talk given at the 2007 Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.

 

Leidner, B., Slawuta, P., & Castano, E. (April 2007). From national glorification through moral disengagement to appraisals of justice. Poster presented at the Psychology and Social Justice (PASJ) Conference 2007, New York, NY, USA.

 

Leidner, B., & Castano, E. (January 2007). Moral disengagement in post-violent situations. Poster presented at the 2007 SPSP Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Preconference of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Memphis, TN, USA.

 

Leidner, B., & Braun, E. (May 2006). Lehrveranstaltungsevaluation: Kompetenzen versus Zufriedenheit. [Academic Course Evaluation: Competencies Versus Satisfaction]  Paper presented at the 6. Fachtagung fuer Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation [6th symposium on psychology didactics and evaluation], Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
  • Advanced Social Psychology (graduate lecture). Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2018.

  • Advancing Diversity in Research and Practice (undergraduate seminar). Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2018.

  • Research Methods (graduate course). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2016, Spring 2017

  • Roots of Conflict (graduate course). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2016

  • Advanced Data Analysis (graduate course). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2015

  • The Psychology of International Justice (graduate seminar). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2014

  • Introduction to Social Psychology (undergraduate lecture). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015

  • International Justice in the Age of Global Conflict (undergraduate seminar). Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013

  • Introduction to Statistics and Research Design (graduate lecture). Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, Fall 2010

  • Statistics 3 (graduate lecture). Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, Spring 2010

  • Statistics 2 (graduate lecture). Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, Fall 2009

  • Statistics 1 (graduate lecture). Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, Fall 2009

  • Psychology of Ethnic Conflict (undergraduate seminar). Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, Spring 2009

  • Psychology of Prejudice (undergraduate seminar). Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, Fall 2008

  • Evaluation and Quality Assurance (undergraduate lecture). Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Spring 2006.

Teaching
MENTORING
  • Primary Advisor/Committee Chair for three UMass graduate students, 2012-present

  • Co-Committee Chair for one UMass graduate student, 2013-present

  • Secondary Advisor/Committee Member for two UMass graduate students, 2012-present

  • Committee Member for one UMass graduate student, 2012-present

  • Honors Thesis Supervisor/Committee Chair for three UMass undergraduate (honors) students, 2012-2013 (won the department’s Outstanding Thesis Award), 2013-2014, 2016-2017

  • Honors Thesis Reader/Committee Member for one UMass undergraduate (honors) student, spring 2012

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant Supervisor for ~35 UMass and three Five Colleges undergraduate students, 2011-present

  • Practicum Supervisor for one UMass undergraduate student, spring 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY
  • Committee Member, Diversity Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015-present

  • Committee Member, Honors Advisory Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011-2015

  • Co-facilitator of bi-weekly meetings of the Psychology of Peace and Violence concentration, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2011-present

  • Committee Member, Comprehensive Exam Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, spring 2012-present

  • Committee Member, Social Psychology Search Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014-2015

  • Committee Member, Social Psychology Search Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013-2014

  • Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst, spring 2012, spring 2014, spring 2015, spring 2016

  • Talk describing my and my division’s research in the departmental graduate student orientation, fall 2015

  • Talk describing my and my division’s research in the departmental Honors Seminar, fall 2013, fall 2014

  • Talk describing my and my division’s research in the departmental Residential Academic Programs (RAP) Seminar for psychology majors, fall 2013

  • Presentation at a panel on the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk for social scientists, convened by the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at UMass (university-wide)

  • Reviewer of research grant applications to the Commonwealth Honors College (university-wide), 2013, 2014, 2015

  • Advisor to the Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC; university-wide) Program, 2012-2013

NATIONAL (U.S.) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB) Board of Consulting Editors, Member/Consulting Editor, 2016-present

  • Ad hoc Reviewer for: National Science Foundation, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Political Psychology, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Social Issues, British Journal of Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Self & Identity, Social Psychology, Social Neuroscience, PLOSone, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, New School Psychology Bulletin, Psychologica Belgica, African Journal of Business Management, 2006-present

  • Reviewer for the 2014, 2015, and 2016 conventions of the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, SPSSI)

  • Reviewer, Graduate Student Travel Award competition for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), summer 2015

  • Reviewer for the APA Science Directorate’s Dissertation Research Award, fall 2014, fall 2015

  • Workshop on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics for researchers, organized nation-wide through the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR), summer 2014, summer 2015

  • Invited talk on implications of conflict research for Israeli-Palestinian policies, given at the leadership workshop of J Street U, November 9, 2013

  • Invited talk given at the University of Connecticut Psychology Speaker Series, Storrs, CO, USA, September 2012

  • Committee Member, Honors Thesis Committee for Michael Pasek, Bates College, spring 2012

INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE
  • British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP) Board of Consultants, Member/Consultant, 2014-present

  • Expert consultant for The Hague Institute for Global Justice, The Hague, The Netherlands; consulted on their project entitled “An Oral History Approach to Balkan Memories on War, Peace, and Justice,” attempting to create and record collective memories and narratives of the Balkan wars in countries of the former Yugoslavia, January 2013

  • Invited for a panel discussion on the topic „Deutschlands Zukunft als exzellenter Standort fuer Nachwuchswissenschaftler“ [Germany’s future as an excellent place for young scientists] at the congress „Lust auf wissenschaftliche Karriere in Deutschland! Wege, Foerderungen und Netzwerke im Ueberblick“ [Motivated for an academic career in Germany! Paths, fellowships and networks in brief], organized by RWTH Aachen and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Berlin, Germany, October 2008

MEDIA ATTENTION

November 2013. Interview in Voice of America.

 

October-December 2013. Leidner, Tropp, & Lickel (2013) featured in: American Psychological Association (APA) Monitor, Eureka! Science News, Medical Daily, Phys – News and Articles on Science and Technology, Science Codex.

November 2013. Interview in Voice of America.

 

October-December 2013. Leidner, Tropp, & Lickel (2013) featured in: American Psychological Association (APA) Monitor, Eureka! Science News, Medical Daily, Phys – News and Articles on Science and Technology, Science Codex.

Mentoring
(University) Service
(National) Service
(International) Service
Media attention
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

2011-                           European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)

2011-                           Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR)

2009-                           International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)

2009-                           Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

2007-                           Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Professional memberships
LANGUAGES

German (first language)

English (fluent)

French (basic)

Latin (basic)

Languages
SKILLS
Statistics & Data Analysis:

SAS

Mplus

SPSS

AMOS

Norm

Coh-Metrix

LIWC

AcKnowledge

Experiment Programming:

DirectRT

MediaLab

InQuisit

Qualtrics

SurveyGizmo

SurveyMonkey

WebQuest

QuestionPro

Web programming:

HTML

JavaScript

php

MySQL

Office & Organization:

MS Office

MS

Project Merlin

Skills
REFEREES

Prof. Emanuele Castano

Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, 80 Fifth Avenue, Room 702, New York, NY, USA.

Phone: 1-(212)-229-5727 Ext. 3098

Email:  CastanoE@newschool.edu

 

Prof. Roger Giner-Sorolla

Department of Psychology, Keynes College, University of Kent, Room Keynes A2.01, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NP, UK.

Phone: 44-(1227)-823085

Email:  R.S.Giner-Sorolla@kent.ac.uk

 

Prof. Brian Lickel

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

Phone: 1-(413)-577-0493

Email:  BLickel@psych.umass.edu

 

Additional references available from:

Prof. Nilanjana Dasgupta

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 635, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

Phone: 1-(413)-545-0049

Email:  dasgupta@psych.umass.edu

 

Prof. Bettina Hannover

Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Room JK 24/222b, 14195 Berlin, Germany.

Phone: 49-(30)-838-56950

Email:  Bettina.Hannover@fu-berlin.de

 

Prof. Ronnie Janoff-Bulman

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 628, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

Phone: 1-(413)-545-0264

Email:  janbul@psych.umass.edu

 

Prof. Stephen Loughnan

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Room S2 (7GS), Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, Scotland, UK.

Phone:             44-(131)-650-9861

Email:  steve.loughnan@ed.ac.uk

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