Ana Gantman, lab director
Ana Gantman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at New York University and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs. Dr. Gantman’s lab investigates how moral psychology affects how we see, think, act, and interact within institutions. Research in the Gantman Lab aims to test basic questions about the nature of morality that are directly relevant to public life and policy, using methods that range from cognitive and neural science to randomized field experiments. Dr. Gantman recently received the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and was named an APS Rising Star.
Contact: ana.gantman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Grace Flores-Robles, doctoral student
Grace Flores-Robles is a PhD candidate in psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center and a Quantitative Reasoning Fellow at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She completed her B.S. in Psychology with minors in Biology and Statistics at The University of Texas, El Paso. Broadly, her research examines how morality shapes the decisions people make within the workplace, especially as they relate to low pay in feminized labor and blame for wrongdoing.
Contact: gfloresrobles@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Alix Alto, doctoral student
Alix is a graduate student in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her B.S. in Psychology at Northeastern University. Broadly, her research investigates identity, political/economic ideology, imagination, and social categorization. Her current work primarily deals with the psychology of leftism and radical imagination. In particular, she's interested in exploring topics such as: how radical imagination and possibility beliefs influence participation in leftist politics, how leftist identities cohere around (anti-)capitalist values, how moral values are conceptualized across the left-leaning political spectrum, and whether mental representation explains how people form political attitudes toward multiply marginalized groups.
Contact: agetreu@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Nicolette Dakin, doctoral student
Nicolette M. Dakin is a Ph.D. student in Basic and Applied Social Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at SUNY Purchase and her Master of Social Work at NYU. Her research interests are focused on the area of political psychology, including perceptions of the legitimacy of the status quo, conspiracy theories, and the relationship between social identity, psychological needs, and ideology.
Connie Chiu, doctoral student
Connie Chiu is a Ph.D. student in the Basic and Applied Social Psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She completed her Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology with minors in Counseling at The University of Hong Kong. Broadly, her research focuses on biases in moral and political cognition. She is especially interested in how various contextual and dispositional factors affect people’s moral and political judgments. Previously, she has investigated this in the context of political misinformation and COVID-19 conspiracy theories in both China and the U.S. Currently, she is working with Dr. Gantman to investigate how cultural norms affect causal judgments and other contextual factors that affect how people think about rules and laws.
Contact: pchiu@gradcenter.cuny.edu
lab alumni
Jordan Wylie (postdoc at Boston College, assistant professor at Cornell University)
Kyle Anderson (former phd affiliate)
Ryan Tracy (former phd affiliate, data scientist at Vizio)
Matthew Vanaman (former phd student, postdoc at UT Austin)
Scott Koenig (former phd affiliate)
Nirupika Sharma (former lab manager, phd student at UC Berkeley)
Angelina Vasquez (former masters affiliate, phd student at the New School)
Isidora Petmil (former masters student)
Ana-Louise Franz (former masters student)
Undergraduate honors: Levi Satter, Fehim Hoti, Ariel Abramova, Agampreet Singh, Esther Mathew, Savanna Benzur, Makesha Balkaran, Aliza Shilman, Farheen Khan, Samantha Chabot, Yulia Pyatetsky, Celia Florea, Sharon Santhosh, Julia Glatman, Rachel Musheyev, Michael Koslov, Fehim Hoti, Jonathan Lum, Ankita Sharma, Fizza Nayyab,
Undergraduate researchers: Emma Joing, Nicole Sergeyev, Marwa Islam, Daniella Davidowitz, Emily Coatl, James Gordon, Samantha Chabot, Sharifa Thompson, Jessica Betancourt, Z Longo, Damoon Parsa, Aicha Scylla, Sydney Greta Gdanski,
collaborators
Paul Bloom (professor of psychology, university of toronto)
William Brady (assistant professor of management & organizations, northwestern)
Wil Cunningham (professor of psychology, university of toronto)
Ajua Duker (assistant professor, new york university)
Peter Gollwitzer (professor of psychology, new york university)
Seth Green (researcher-writer)
Matthew Lindauer (assistant professor of philosophy, brooklyn college & CUNY grad center)
Kyle Matthewson (associate professor, university of alberta)
Peter Mende-Siedlecki (associate professor, university of delaware)
Kaitlyn Milless (researcher, mathematica)
Gabriele Oettingen (professor of psychology, new york university)
Betsy Levi Paluck (professor of psychology, princeton university)
John-Henry Pezzuto (doctoral student, ucsd)
Roni Porat (senior lecturer, hebrew university)
John Sciarappo (behavioral scientist)
Jordan Starck (assistant professor, stanford university)
Jay Van Bavel (professor of psychology, new york university)
Daniel Yudkin (senior adviser, more in common)