Katrina Fincher
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Email
fincherk@newschool.edu
Office Location
G - 80 Fifth Avenue
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Katrina Fincher studies moral psychology. Her research focuses on the basic cognitive and perceptual psychological mechanisms that enable people to live in social groups, in particular three mechanisms that enable this transition; perceptual dehumanization (her primary focus), covert retribution, and sacred values.
Degrees Held
PhD 2015, University of Pennsylvania
BA 2008, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Affiliation
Association for Psychological Science
Society for Judgment and Decision Making
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
National Latina/o Psychological Association
Academy of Management
Recent Publications
Tetlock, P.E. & Fincher, K.M., (2014)
Social Functionalism. "Theory and Explanation in Social Psychology." Guilford Press, New York
Mellers B, Ungar L, Baron J, Ramos J, Gurcay B, Fincher K.M., Scott S.E., Moore D, Atanasov P, Swift SA, Murray T, Stone E, & Tetlock, P (2014).
Psychological strategies for winning a geopolitical forecasting tournament. Psychological science, 25(5), 1106-1115.
Rozin, P., Fincher, K.M., Guillot, L,.,Rozin, A., & Tsukayama, E. (2013).
Glad to be sad, and other examples of benign masochism. Judgment & Decision Making, 8(4).
Allison K. C., Paré E, Cicco Barker J, Kavanaugh K, Fincher, K., Sarwer DB. Predicting excess weight gain among overweight pregnant women: the PoEMS study. Journal of Women’s Health 2007; 16:1102, P-20.
Research Interests
morality, cognition, perception
Awards And Honors
2016 Mortimer D. Sackler Summer Institute in Neuroscience and Law
2010–2015 Russell Ackoff Student Research Fellowship,
Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School
(Total Awards: $17,500)
2009–2015 Mellon Fellowship, Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
(Total Awards: $280,000)
2013–2015 Benjamin Franklin Summer Fellowship
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
(Total Awards: $6,300)
2013 Diversity Fund Travel Fellowship
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
(Total Award, $500)
2011 Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Neuroscience Bootcamp
University of Pennsylvania
Current Courses
Humanization & Dehumanization
Independent Study
Independent Study (Fall 2019)
Methods of Inquiry
Methods of Inquiry (Fall 2019)
Moral Psychology
Polit Psyc: Moral, Hiera&Grps
Polit Psyc: Moral, Hiera&Grps (Fall 2019)
Senior Work Project
Senior Work Project (Fall 2019)