School of Humanities and Sciences
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MarYam Hamedani, PhD
Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist, Psychology
BioI am a social and behavioral scientist with experience leading centers and teams within higher ed. I study and put into practice strategies to help people live, work, and interact in today’s diverse and divided world. My expertise is in harnessing the power of culture for behavioral, organizational, and societal change and building cross-sector collaborations to field test data-driven solutions. My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, covered by national media outlets, and supported by leading foundations.
As Executive Director and Senior Research Scientist at Stanford SPARQ, I partner with public and private sector leaders to use social and behavioral science insights to drive change. I prioritize an approach to research that is grounded in society’s biggest problems and centers the perspectives of practitioners working to lead change on the ground. I create opportunities for researchers and practitioners to learn from one another in mutually beneficial partnerships. I also regularly speak and advise on culture change, cross-sector research partnerships, and higher education leadership.
Before Stanford SPARQ, I was Associate Director of Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) and Stanford's Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE). I am also a Stanford Ph.D. alum in Social Psychology and graduate from Middlebury College with B.A.s in Psychology and Philosophy. -
Rhana Hashemi
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2022
BioRhana Hashemi is a Ph.D. student in Social Psychology conducting social-belonging and stereotype threat research with Dr. Greg Walton. She is focused on improving the lives of students who use drugs by understanding and repairing the relationship they form with their schools and authority figures. Rhana hopes to design interventions that promote connection and reduce bias, as alternatives to school suspension. She holds a M.S in Community Health Prevention Research from Stanford School of Medicine and a B.A in Social Welfare with honors from UC Berkeley. Previous research has focused on cognitive dissonance theory, prevention messaging, social media, and adolescent substance use.
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Robert Hawkins
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Psychology
BioI direct the Social Interaction & Language (SoIL) Lab at Stanford University. We're interested in the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to flexibly communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with one another. We work on these problems using large-scale, multi-player web experiments and computational models of language and social reasoning.
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Catherine Heaney
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Psychology and of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center), Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEnhancing our understanding of psychosocial factors at work (occupational stress, social support at work, organizational justice, organizational empowerment) that are associated with health and disease.
Developing effective strategies for enhancing employee resiliency and reducing exposure to psychological and behavioral risk factors at work.
