Post Doctoral Fellows

Photo of Dr. Francine Karmali
Postdoctoral Fellow
Website: francinekarmali.com

Biographical Info

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the SPRQL lab at UofT, also working with the Engendering Success in STEM research consortium and studying intergroup processes and their consequences. By using a multi-method approach, I investigate the processes by which social categorization can form and maintain inequalities. That is, I examine the ways that perceiving group categories (e.g., race, gender) impact how we think, feel, and behave towards others, as well as contextual (i.e., situational difference) and person factors (i.e., individual differences) that moderate these processes. To accomplish this work, I draw on psychological theories and methods from many sub-fields beyond social psychology, including psychophysiology, and cognitive, developmental, personality, and industrial-organizational psychology.

Biographical Info

I am interested in using social psychology to explore how people interact with environmental issues by examining predictors of proenvironmental behaviour and identity. For my Master’s, I am investigating the attitudes, behaviors, and emotions that predict voting for environmentally friendly candidates in national elections. In another line of work, I am interested in exploring how we can increase environmentalist identities by first increasing proenvironmental behaviors.