Accomplishments
* Profiles of students and alumni listed below can be found on our Students and Alumni pages.
Awards
- BASP student Grace Flores-Robles was awarded the APA Division 35 Latina Student Scholar Award (2022).
- Faculty member Ana Gantman and BASP alumnus Matt Goldberg were named APS Rising Stars (2022).
- BASP student Jackie Katzman won 1 of 5 Outstanding Presentation Awards at the virtual APLS poster session (2021).
- BASP student Jackie Katzman won the European Association for Psychology and Law Student Presentation Award (2021).
- BASP student Bryant Gomez recently had his work profiled in Rutgers Today (2021).
- BASP student Natalie Gordon was awarded the Presidential Prize for Public Communication (2021).
- BASP alumna Jordan Wylie was awarded SPSP’s Outstanding Research Award (2021).
- BASP alumni Katlyn Milless and Jordan Wylie were both awarded SPSP’s Janessa Shapiro Graduate Research Awards (2020).
- Former BASP student Jordan Wylie was a summer fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and attended SISPP (2019).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received the American Psychology-Law Society Book Award (2018).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera was made a Fellow in the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2018).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera was named a Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series (2017–2018).
- Faculty member Sarit Golub was chosen as a Research Exemplar by the Professionalism & Integrity in Research Program (2017).
- Inna Saboshchuk received a Student Travel Award from the American Psychological Association (2015).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2015).
- Faculty member Tracey A. Revenson received the Nathan Perry Award for Career Contributions to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association, Division of Health Psychology (2014).
- Kristi Gamarel (BASP ’14) received an Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association (2014).
INTERNAL GRANT Funding
PSC-CUNY Research Awards
- Grace Flores-Robles and Ana Gantman received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($11,039) for their project “Seeing and sanctioning systemic inequality” in 2022-2023.
- Grace Flores-Robles and Ana Gantman received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($11,094) for their project titled: “For love or money? Understanding unique barriers to care workers’ labor organizing” in 2021-2022.
- Andre Oliver and Catherine Good received a PSC-CUNY Research Award in 2021-2022.
- Katlyn Milless, Maya Godbole, and Catherine Good received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($6,000) for their project titled: “Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline by Reducing the Punishment Gap” in 2020-2021.
- Katlyn Milless and Daryl Wout received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($5,355) for their project titled: “Intersectional perspectives: An investigation of women of color’s person perception and experiences of attributional ambiguity” in 2019-2020.
- Maureen Coyle and Cheryl Carmichael received a PSC-CUNY Research Award ($3,323) for their project titled “The Communication of Perceived Responsiveness through Text Message” in 2017-2018.
Doctoral Student Research Grants
- Alix Alto received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for their project in 2022-2023.
- Jaclyn Doherty received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021-2022.
- Grace Flores-Robles received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($961) for her project “For love or money? Understanding unique barriers to care workers’ labor organizing” in 2021-2022.
- Andre Oliver received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for his project in 2021-2022.
- Melanie Fessinger received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her in project 2021.
- Rachel Fikslin received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021.
- Jackie Katzman received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her project in 2021.
- Maureen Coyle received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,300) for her project in 2020-2021.
- Katlyn Milless received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,492) for her project “A social justice approach to interventions: Women of color’s perceptions of STEM instructors” in 2020-2021.
- Ryan Tracy received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($970) for his project in 2019-2020.
- Katlyn Milless received a Doctoral Student Research Grant ($1,470) for her project “Effects of representation and diversity on person perception” in 2018-2019.
Other Internal Grants and Funding
- Former BASP student Katlyn Milless received the Ernesto Malave Merit Scholarship from the CUNY University Student Senate (2017).
- Former BASP student Maureen Coyle received a University Fellowship Travel Award ($500) from the Graduate Center, CUNY to present work from her first doctoral project at a Digital Intimacies symposium at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (2017).
- Noelle Malvar won an early research award ($4,000) from the joint Vera Institute of Justice/Graduate Center grant (2017).
EXTERNAL GRANT Funding
- Faculty member Cheryl Carmichael received a 5-year CAREER Award ($896,346) from the National Science Foundation for her research on the communication of responsiveness entitled “Modeling Responsive Relationship Behavior: Channels of Communication, Social Benefits, and Mechanisms of Action.” (2020-2025).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received a grant ($199,619) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “COLLOBORATIVE RESEARCH: Social influence in eyewitness identification procedures: Do blind administrator behaviors magnify the effects of suspect bias?” (2021-2024)
- Dual specialization Jackie Katzman and co-PI Margaret Bull Kovera received the National Science Foundation’s Law and Science Dissertation Grant ($20,000) for their project titled: “Examining the role of evidence-based suspicion in racial disparities in wrongful convictions” (2022-2023)
- BASP student Jaclyn Doherty received a grant ($10,000) from the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society (2022).
- Jordan Wylie was awarded the Psi Chi Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant ($1,498) for her project titled: “Doesn't everybody jaywalk? Racial disparities in the policing of rarely followed rules”. (2021).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera and co-author dual-specialization Natalie Gordon received a grant ($19,779) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “DDRIG: Improving the Accuracy of Juror Self-Reports of Bias during Rehabilitative Voir Dire.” (2019-2021)
- Faculty member Cheryl Carmichael received a 2-year ADVANCE-IT Catalyst Award ($299,523) from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Supporting the Success of a Diverse STEM Faculty at Brooklyn College.” (2019-2021).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera received a grant ($306,932) from the National Science Foundation entitled: “The Role of Phenotypic Bias in Eyewitness Identification Accuracy.” (2017-2021)
- Maya Godbole was awarded a Claro Mayo Grant ($650) from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) for her project titled: “Sex discrimination policies as a gateway to women’s representation.” (2019-2020)
- Maya Godbole was awarded the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students Ellin Bloch Psychological Science Research Grant ($1,000) for her project titled: “Sex discrimination policies: Increasing women’s participation, belonging, and performance.” (2019)
- Noelle Malvar was awarded the SPSSI-Grants-in-Aid Award in (2019).
- Faculty member Danielle Berke received a 4-year grant ($468,000) from the National Institutes of Health to study the trajectories and markers of risk and resilience among transgender trauma survivors using a multimethod longitudinal approach to rigorously assess the impact of daily discrimination and traumatic stress responses in this high-need population, informing PTSD prevention/intervention efforts.
- Dual-specialization student Andrew Evelo received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($20,000) from the National Science Foundation for his dissertation entitled "Extra-Legal Information Transfer in Eyewitness Identification."
- Faculty member Demis Glasford was awarded a 5-year grant ($1,000,000) from the Department of Homeland Security for research on majority-minority relations and education entitled "Disciplinary theory and Advanced social-behavioral sciences Research methods Training (DART)."
- BASP student Katlyn Milless was awarded a research grant ($4,000) from the Diversity Projects Development Fund of the UACD for her work entitled "Assessing Sense of Belonging for Underrepresented Students in STEM."
- Faculty member Michael Leippe was awarded a 3-year grant ($348, 750) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work entitled “Understanding and Reducing Biases in Jury Decision Making.”
- Faculty member Sarit Golub was awarded a 5-year grant ($2,982,362) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her work entitled "Intervention to Enhance PrEP Uptake and Adherence in a Community-Based Setting."
- Dual Specialization student Nikoleta Despodova was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship ($132,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- Faculty member Margaret Bull Kovera was awarded a 2-year grant ($260,000) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund her work entitled "Concurrent Expert Testimony as a Potential Remedy for Expert Witness Partisanship."
Recent publications
- 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
- Kovera, M. B., & Evelo, A. J. (2020). Improving eyewitness identification evidence through double-blind lineup administration. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(6), 563–568. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721420969366
- Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. (2020). Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44(1), 3–36. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000359
- Kovera, M. B. (2019). Racial disparities in the criminal justice system: Prevalence, causes, and a search for solutions. Journal of Social Issues, 75, 1139–1164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josi.12355
- Tracy, R. E., Wilson, J. P., Slepian, M. L., & Young, S. G. (2020). Facial trustworthiness predicts ingroup inclusion decisions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104047
- Coyle, M. A., & Carmichael, C. L. (2019). Perceived responsiveness in text messaging: The role of emoji use. Computers in Human Behavior, 99, 181-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.023
- Godbole, M. A., Malvar, N. A., & Valian, V. V. (2019). Gender, Modern Sexism, and the 2016 election. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 3, 700-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2019.1633934
- Price, D. M., Fikslin, R. A., Goldberg, A. J., Gesselman, A. N., Loubriel, J. C., & Brooks, J. (2020). Sexual orientation and differences in HIV cognition. Personality and Individual Differences, 152, 109531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.109531
- Vanaman, M.E., Leggett, M.P., Crysel, L, & Askew, R.L. (2019). A novel measure of the need for moral cognition. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. doi: 10.1080/01973533.2018.1531000
- Young, S. G., Tracy, R. E., Wilson, J. P., Rydell, R. J., & Hugenberg, K. (2019). The temporal dynamics of the link between configural face processing and dehumanization. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103883. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103883