A notable number of faculty members from the Department of Psychology at The New School for Social Research has secured grant funding through the National Science Foundation. 

Psychology faculty members Michael Schober and Bill Hirst were awarded grants to further their scholarship in the area of cognitive psychology.  Michael Schober’s grant titled “Collaborative Research: Animated Agents in Self-Administered Survey Interviews” funds his research in exploring direct interview techniques and the impact of utilizing animated agents as interviewers.  Bill Hirst’s grant, “Conversationally Induced Forgetting” funds his studies in the area if socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Social Psychologists Emanuele Castano and Joan Miller received funding to further the understanding of social behavior.  Joan Miller’s award, “The Cultural Context of Social Support Exchange,” funds her investigation in the theoretical understanding of the experienced cultural variation of social support exchange of family and friends.  Emanuele Castano’ s grant, “The Effect of Ingroup Reprehensible Actions: Collective Emotions and Moral Disengagement,” integrates insights from the literature on moral disengagement and more recent work on collective emotions to advance theoretical understanding of the psychological consequences of collective transgressions.

In addition to the National Science Foundation awards, two clinical psychologists received grants from the National Institute of Health, Lisa Rubin’s grant is titled “Attitudes Regarding Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis,” and Xiaochun Jin’s was given a subaward project, titled “HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Minority New Investigators.”

As the director of the Journal Donation Project and editor of Social Research, Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology, works tirelessly to secure substantial funding from sources such as the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.