3024 East Hall
Department of Psychology
525 E. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
email: atrahan@umich.edu
I grew up in Somerville, MA, near Boston. I graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Psychology in 2001. My undergraduate research focused on how situational variables influence behavioral responses to stereotype primes. While at Harvard, my mentors were Margaret Shih, Todd Pittinsky, and Nalini Ambady. I entered the PhD program in Organizational Psychology at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2001, and I have been working with the Multiple Identities and Interpersonal Interactions Lab ever since.
My research interests include shifting social identities, behavioral responses to stereotypes, and the social climate of the Internet. I am particularly interested in the social cues people use to make judgments about others in the online world, and what sorts of effects these judgments may have on an individual's performance.
Besides psychology, I enjoy reading fiction, watching Friends and The Simpsons, concerts (recent favorites: U2 in Boston, Travis in Ann Arbor), and travel.