Social Psychology Graduate Student
Area: Social

Psychology Office: 3233 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-647-3933
Email: mvarnum@umich.edu

Highest Degree

BA, University of Michigan

Faculty Advisors

Richard Nisbett, Shinobu Kitayama

Lab

Culture & Cognition

Research Interests

My research interests include culture and cognition: values, self, relational orientaiton, attention, attribution, categorization, reasoning (focusing on differences between Central & Eastern Europe and Western Europe/US), cultural change, linguistic relativity, aging and wisdom, socio-moral and task-ability domains, evolution and culture.