People

THE TEAM

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

Dr. Hodson is a Distinguished 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 URL for 2023, yearly updated data). See Brock News press release.

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

Hanna Puffer, BA
Masters 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 (see Puffer et al., 2024).

Hanna's MA research is examining intergroup contact as a tool to reduce prejudice, with a particular focus on secondary transfer effects (i.e., how contact with Group X predicts lower prejudice toward Group Y).

BA Honours Thesis Students (2024-2025)

Ella Hancock

Ella is a fourth year Honours Psychology student in the research stream. She is minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies to further her understanding of how social issues impact wellbeing.

Her research interests include political polarization, combatting misinformation, and discrimination based on gender and sexuality

Morgan Hoover

Morgan is very interested in prejudice and discrimination in its many forms.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

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

Research Assistants (2024-2025)

(Watch this space for updates)

Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
(Supervised by Dr. Hodson)

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).

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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Twitter: @cara_macinnis

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

Megan Earle, PhD

Megan Earle earned her PhD in the autumn of 2021. Her thesis focused on (negative) contact between men and women, sexism, exploitation of women.

She is currently a data scientist at the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR), one of Canada’s oldest housing rights non-profit organizations. She is especially interested in discrimination as a function of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

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Twitter: @MeganEarle4

Elvira Prusaczyk, PhD

Elvira Prusaczyk earned her PhD in the summer of 2023. Her thesis examined the effects of (hardcore) pornography on outcomes that negatively affect women (e.g., rape myth acceptance; objectification).

She is presently an Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University.

Websites (departmental and personal).
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Twitter: @ElviraPrusaczyk

Nour Kteilly, PhD

Nour earned his PhD at Harvard with Dr. Jim Sidanius, then completed a SSHRC-funded postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Hodson. His main postdoc project introduced meta-dehumanization (feeling dehumanized by others), subsequently published (Kteily, Hodson, & Bruneau, 2016, JPSP).

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.

Twitter: @NourKteily

Beenish Khan, MA

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

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.

Nadia Ganesh, MA

Nadia completed her BA and MA in the lab, studying the intersectionality of racism and sexism in affecting stereotyping of, and discrimination toward, Black women.

She is presently pursuing a PhD in Applied Health Sciences at Brock.

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

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 Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Becky was awarded the CPA New Researcher award. Click here for her website. ORCID ID

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.

Malvina Skorska, PhD

Malvina earned her PhD under the supervision of Dr. Tony Bogaert. She was then 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. She is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

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.

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)

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

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

Megan Earle, Elvira Prusaczyk, Gordon Hodson, Kristof Dhont, Alina Salmen, Victoria Krings (left to right). Interlab collaboration April 2019

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