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THE TEAM

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Dr. Gordon Hodson
​Fellow of APS, SESP, SPSP
BIAS Lab Director

​Dr. Hodson is a Professor of Psychology, and a faculty member of the Forensic Psychology and Criminal Justice programme, at Brock University (Canada).

​He has served as Editor-in-Chief at 
ERSP, and as  Associate Editor at both JESP and GPIR. He presently serves on the Editorial Boards of ERSP, GPIR, JTSP, PHAIR, Advances in Psychology, and BJSP.

​He was awarded the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence (Brock University) 2015-2018, and is an elected Fellow at APS, SPPS, and SESP. 

A paper by Ioannidis et al. (2019) lists Gordon Hodson as among
the “top scientists” internationally based on citations. (see specific table for 2017 statistics). See Brock News press release. 

ORCID ID  Google Scholar

​Dr. Hodson writes a column called "Without Prejudice" at Psychology Today.  

Twitter: @GordonHodsonPhD 





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Elvira Prusaczyk, MA
PhD student

Elvira's dissertation focuses on the impact of pornography on sexual objectification, sexual harassment, and mental health. Her other research streams explore sexism-related topics, including predictors of abortion opposition, internalization and acceptance of sexist communications (e.g., jokes), prejudice against non-gender conforming people, and self-objectification among non-White women.

Broadly, Elvira is interested in how both higher and lower status group members maintain hierarchies, focusing on relevant individual differences in system justification. Moreover, Elvira’s goal is to understand psychological phenomena and test interventions that may reduce prejudice and discrimination. 

​Elvira values transparency and Open Science. She has experience with cross-sectional, experimental, and multilevel research. She previously held an Ontario Women's Health Scholar Award  and currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Scholarship.

Personal Webpage 
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0252-4978

Twitter: @ElviraPrusaczyk
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Nadia Ganesh, BA
MA student 

Nadia is interested in exploring intersectionality within the realm of prejudice and discrimination research. She is especially interested in studying the extent to which people who are members of multiple marginalized communities face unique discrimination compared to people who are members of one or no marginalized communities. Nadia is also interested in researching the extent to which individual differences (e.g., sexism, racism, etc.) predict prejudice and discrimination towards marginalized groups. Her current research examines the degree to which Women of Colour are discriminated against when accessing healthcare services.  
  
Her research is currently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). 
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  Hanna Puffer (BA)
  MA Student


 Hanna is interested in studying sexism, anti-LGBT+ bias, among other forms of prejudice. She has a research interest in attitudes toward transactional sex.  Hanna's MA research is examining intergroup contact as a tool to reduce prejudice. 

BA Honours Thesis Students (2022-2023)
PictureAzreen Rasna
  ​Azreen is interested in prejudicial attitudes related to religious identification and stereotypes.

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  Lyndsey is interested in a wide range of prejudices.  

Post-Doctoral Fellows

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Deborah Shulman, PhD
Deborah is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of East Anglia (UK) co-supervised by Rose Meleady, Richard Crisp, and Gordon Hodson. 
 
Deborah's work broadly focuses on the psychology of intergroup relations. Her current research explores whether, and under what conditions, intergroup contact can encourage more flexible and creative ways of thinking.
 
Deborah's overarching goal is to develop evidence-based psychological interventions that have the potential to benefit society. In her PhD (supervised by Eran Halperin, Michal Reifen-Tagar, & Thomas Kessler), Deborah has developed and tested interventions to reduce support for ingroup harmdoing toward outgroup members, primarily in the context of violent intergroup conflict. Deborah is also interested in understanding the role of moral identity, moral emotions, and moral reasoning as both barriers and facilitators of attitude and behavioural change. 
 
Follow on Google scholar; Twitter @DeborahShulman

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Research Assistants (2022-2023)

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Kaileigh Schenck
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Brianne Grandmont
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Sara Palewicz
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Grace-Anna Piett
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Amanda White
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Colin Kwiatkowski

Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
​(Supervised by Dr. Hodson)
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Kimberly Costello, PhD

After earning her PhD in the lab  in 2012, Kimberly became a professor at Humber College. She is presently a professor at Mohawk College.

​Her research focuses on dehumanization and speciesism. Her PhD thesis developed the Interspecies Model of Prejudice (see Costello & Hodson, 2014a, 2014b; Hodson & Costello, 2012, in press). 
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Cara MacInnis, PhD

After earning her PhD in the lab in 2013, Cara held a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, working with Dr. Liz Page-Gould. Cara was an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, and is now an Assistant Professor at Acadia University. 

​Cara was awarded the 2016 SPSSI Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations award for MacInnis & Page-Gould (2015, Perspectives).  ​Click here for Cara's webpage. 

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Mark Hoffarth, PhD

Mark earned his PhD in the lab in 2017, and then pursued an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at New York University (NYU) under the supervision of Dr. John Jost. In autumn 2019 he was a Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University.  He is presently working in industry. 

​While in the lab Mark was awarded the APA Division 34 best graduate student paper for Hoffarth & Hodson (2016, JEP), and his PhD was published at JPSP (Hoffarth, Hodson, & Molnar, 2018).  ​Click here for Mark's ResearchGate page
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Megan Earle, PhD
Megan earned her PhD in the autumn of 2021. She is currently ​a data scientist at the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR), one of Canada’s oldest housing rights non-profit organizations. 
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Nour Kteily, PhD

Nour earned his PhD at Harvard with Dr. Jim Sidanius, then a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Hodson. His main postdoc project (Kteily, Hodson, & Bruneau, 2016, JPSP) introduced meta-dehumanization (feeling dehumanized by others).  ​Nour was recognized as an APS Rising Star in 2016, and a 2018 Sage Young Scholar. He is presently a (Full) Professor at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern). ​Click here for Nour's website. 
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Beenish Khan, MA

For her MA Beenish explored the role of (low) empathy in explaining prejudice. 
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PJ Sangalang, MA

After graduation, PJ transitioned into a corporate trainer role in the pre-employment industry, and is currently Head of Training and Development. Whilst primarily focused on hands-on training and teaching, he has also assisted in large scale corporate due diligence projects as well as assisting in database transitions used by his clients. He is currently in living in Surrey, England, and has lived in the UK since 2008. ​
CONVOCATIONS!
​Click here for images of past convocations/graduations from the lab. 

Past Honours Thesis Students 
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Past Research Assistants & Co-op Students
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Former Graduate Student Affiliates
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Becky Choma, PhD

Becky earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Hafer, after which she pursued a SSHRC-funded postdoc at York (with Dr. Kerry Kawakami) and at Wilfrid Laurier (with Dr. Mindi Foster). Becky is presently an Associate Professor at Ryerson University.​​Becky was awarded the CPA New Researcher award. ​Click here for her website.  ORCID ID
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Paul Adachi, PhD

Paul earned his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Teena Willoughby. He then pursued a SSHRC-Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester with Drs. Richard Ryan and Edward Deci. ​ In 2017 he was awarded the APA Division 46 (media psychology) award for Distinguished Scientific contributions. ​Paul's Google page can be found here. ​
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Malvina Skorska, PhD

Malvina earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Tony Bogaert. She is presently a postdoctoral fellow at CAMH in Toronto on a  CIHR-funded postdoc position. When in the Brock Laboratory of Intergroup Processes, Malvina published two papers (Hodson & Skorska, 2015; Skorska et al., 2018) on prejudice-related topics. Malvina's ResearchGate page can be found here, and her personal webpage can be found here. 
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Mary MacLean, PhD

Mary earned her PhD at Brock under the supervision of Dr. Karen Arnell. She is presently a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Barbara. 
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Caitlyn Gallant, PhD

Caitlyn earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Good. She conducted research with Dr. Hodson during her PhD. Caitlyn is currently a postdoctoral fellow at York University (Canada)
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   Valerie Rothwell, MA

Valerie earned her BA thesis in the BIAS lab (and published her thesis!); she later earned her MA under supervision of Liz Shulman. 



Visiting Scholars

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Kristof Dhont, PhD

Kristof is a key collaborator of the lab, and is a frequent visitor (2013, 2016, 2019). Kristof is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the University of Kent. His website can be found here.  ORCID ID
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Megan Earle, Elvira Prusaczyk, Gordon Hodson, Kristof Dhont, Alina Salmen, Victoria Krings (left to right). Interlab collaboration April 2019
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