LAB MEMBERS

Lab Director

YAACOV TROPE

Professor Of Psychology

My research focuses on two sets of issues. The first concerns the cognitive, motivational, and social factors that enable people to transcend the "here and now." People often get immersed in their immediate egocentric concerns. My lab examines what enables people to go beyond those myopic concerns and see themselves in the future, through another person's eyes, in different societies and cultures, and in hypothetical and novel situations. There is marked variation in the breadth of people’s mental horizons, namely, in how distant in time, culture, and geography are the possibilities people envision, care about, and plan for. My research seeks to shed light on the psychological mechanisms that narrow or broaden people’s mental horizons. We also explore the real life consequences of narrow vs. broad mental horizons for the way people relate to their social and natural environment. 

The second set of issues concerns self control. The question is when and how people fail to do what they want while possessing the knowledge, skill, and opportunity that are required to do what they want. How do we—individuals or groups—(sometimes) manage to act in line with our overriding goals when faced with tempting alternatives? This research investigates the conscious and unconscious mechanisms that serve to resolve conflicts between people's local, short-term concerns and their global, long-term concerns. 

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Rasha Kardosh

Rasha Kardosh is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychology Department. Rasha’s research centers on how the cognitive system represents the social diversity of our environments. Building on classical theories and paradigms from social psychology and cognitive science, she explores the different cognitive processes that underlie our (mis)perceptions of the diversity of social environments and our social views on diversity and equality.

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 Graduate Students

Maryam Bin Meshar

My research explores the psychological mechanisms that shape social projection and mental states inferences. I’m interested in how people perceive similarities with others across time, space, and social groups and  how people expand their mental horizons when they learn new information, specially when their motivation is to inform others. I'm also interested in understanding the cognitive underpinnings of mental states inferences. 

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Kalman Victor

My research focuses on how we move beyond egocentric reference to experience altercentric social distance, including but not limited to perspective-taking processes. I’m particularly interested in how we may use these strategies to mentally/linguistically represent socially diverse pluralities in an integrative manner. Methodologically, I hope to develop the use of novel computational approaches in the measurement of abstraction in big and small language data. 

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MaXiao

MaXiao (Ma-sh-iao) is a second-year doctoral student in the Social Psychology program at NYU. He received his BA (2019) in Psychology and Statistics from Carleton College, MN. After graduation, he conducted clinical research as a post-graduate associate at Yale Psychiatry, OCD Research Clinic. His research interests focus on how construal levels affect self-control processes, and how this research can be applied to interpersonal settings to help facilitate growth and bridge performance gaps in minority students. 

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Lab Affiliates

Rui Du

Ph.D. Candidate, Marketing Department, Baruch College

My research focuses on understanding how consumer interaction with technology influences their moral behavior. Morality has long been a topic in intellectual history. My research explores the theoretical as well as practical implications of moral decision making under the context of human-technology interaction. This area of research extends a preponderance of theoretical work in morality into a technology context and offers exciting findings to academics and marketing managers.

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Lab Alumni 


Post-Doctoral Student
(listed in the order of name, current affiliation, current position)
  • Elinor Amit, Havard University, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
  • Miriam Bassok, University of Washington, Professor of Psychology
  • David Bosch, New York University, Lecturer in the Management Division
  • Shana Cole, Rutgers University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Melissa Ferguson, Cornell University, Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Ran Hassin, Hebrew University, Professor of Psychology
  • Marlone Henderson, The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor in Psychology
  • David Kalkstein, Stanford University, Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Ellie Kyung, Dartmouth University, Assistant Professor of Business Administration 
  • Eva Pomerantz, National University of Singapore, Professor of Psychology
  • Chen Pundak, New York University
  • Raj Raghunathan, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Marketing
  • Eva Walther, The University of Trier, Professor of Social Psychology

Ph.D. Student
  • Nidhi Agrawal, University of Washington, Michael G. Foster Associate Professor of Marketing
  • Hillel Aviezer, Hebrew University, Senior Researcher 
  • Fredrik Björklund, Lund University, Professor of Psychology
  • Ashli Carter, Columbia Business School, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Steven Chan, Yeshiva University, Assistant Professor of Marketing
  • Baruch Eitam, University of Haifa, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Michael Feder, NYU Grossman of Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Ayelet Fishbach, The University of Chicago, Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing
  • Kentaro Fujita, The Ohio State University, Associate Professor of Psychology
  • Ruth Gaunt, University of Lincoln, UK, Reader in Psychology
  • Yasaman Ghodse-Elahi, US Bank, Behavioral Scientist 
  • Ana Guinote, University College London, Senior Lecturer
  • Jochim Hansen, University of Salzburg, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Alexa Hubbard, Facebook, User Experience Researcher
  • Eric Igou, University of Limerick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
  • Caglar Irmak, University of Miami, Associate Professor of Marketing
  • Tali Kleiman, Hebrew University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Margarita Krochick
  • Alison Ledgerwood, University of California - Davis, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University, Professor of Psychology
  • Ido Liviatan, Open University of Israel, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
  • Ethan Ludwin-Peery, Hampshire College, Visiting Assistant Professor 
  • Sam Maglio, University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Marketing
  • Lewend Mayiwar, BI Norwegian Business School
  • Johann Melzner, University of Miami, Assistant Professor of Marketing
  • Avital Mentovich, University of California - Los, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
  • Efrat Neter, Angeles, Senior Lecturer
  • Ravit Nussinson, Ruppin Academic Center, Lecturer in Psychology
  • Dongwon Oh, Open University of Israel, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
  • Kyle Ratner, The University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Jean-Nicolas Reyt, University of California - Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Marketing
  • SoYon Rim, William Paterson University, Assistant Professor of Psychology
  • Michael Sagristano, Nielssen, Senior Manager, Analytic Consulting
  • Anni Sternisko, Streitgut, Consultant
  • Pamela K. Smith, University of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy
  • Alex Todorov, Princeton University, Professor of Psychology
  • Gülden Ülkümen, University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Marketing 
  • Cheryl Wakslak, University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Management and Organization
  • Marika Yip-Banniq, Columbia University, Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology
  • Daniel Yudkin, University of Pennsylvania, Postdoctoral Fellow
Honors Student
  • Irina Feygina, American Psychological Association, Congressional Fellow
Others
  • Sean Lane, University of Missouri, Post-Doctoral Fellow