David Amodio, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University (on leave)
Amodio’s research examines the psychological and neural mechanisms of prejudice, social cognition, and self-regulation, with a focus on how social biases are learned, expressed in behavior, controlled, and changed.
Amodio is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, an appointment he began in 2017 and held part-time from 2018-2021. Prior to returning to Amsterdam in 2022, he worked at New York University from 2005 to 2021, serving as coordinator of the NYU Social Psychology program from 2013 to 2016.
Amodio served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2011-2016), was a co-founder of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (as President in 2022). He is an elected fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
Amodio’s research is funded by the US National Science Foundation and a Vici Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. His contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from The White House, the Janet T. Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science, and the Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Study of Social Cognition from the International Social Cognition Network.
Inga Rösler
NWO Postdoctoral Fellow
Inga is broadly interested in social interactions, social learning, and cooperation. She combines computational and neuroscientific methods to study how we form impressions of other people’s morality.
Madalina Vlasceanu
NYU Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Madalina is interested in how beliefs and attitudes form and change. Her current work examines the role of cognition in collective belief change, integrating methods ranging from behavioral experiments to brain imaging and social network analysis.
Jeffrey Berg
Doctoral Student, NYU
Jeff is interested in how attitudes form and change. His current work examines the role of instrumental learning in attitude formation, using behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational methods.
Alana Bertin
Doctoral Student, NYU
Alana is interested in the neural, cognitive, and sociocultural mechanisms underlying bias in intergroup perception and behavior, especially as it pertains to stereotype formation and intersectional bias. She is also interested in bias in AI systems and its real world implications.
Iris Traast
Doctoral student, UvA
Iris is interested in the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying social behavior. She uses computational, neuroimaging, and behavioral methods to research the formation and reduction of implicit prejudice.
Michael Berkebile
Doctoral Student, NYU
Michael is interested in the sociocognitive and neural bases of prejudice. His current research examines the effects of economic scarcity on racial stereotyping and dehumanization–processes.
David Schultner
Doctoral Student, UvA
David investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms of stereotype formation. His present research examines the influence of economic competition on prejudice.
Marla Dressel
Research MA student, UvA
Marla is interested in the social transmission of stereotypes and whether this process can be explained by computational models of social reinforcement learning. She is also interested in the social neuroscience of empathy and is a fan of Open Science.
Isabel Kerber
MSc student, Humboldt University of Berlin
Isabel is interested in the neural and computational processes underlying impression formation, especially with regard to morality, as well as in how machines shape biases in society today and in the future.