Amanda Diekman

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall 2026**

• abdiekma@iu.edu
• (812) 856-7516
• PY 357

Research Interests
social roles; gender; stereotyping and prejudice; motivation; STEM

Dorainne J. Green

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**

• dojlevy@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3227
• PY 359

Research Interests
coping with stigma, emotion regulation, intergroup relations, social identity threat, stereotyping and prejudice

Edward Hirt

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**

• ehirt@iu.edu
• (812) 855-4815
• PY 340

Research Interests
mental depletion; Social cognition and social judgment; self-protective strategies, particularly self-handicapping; hypothesis testing; mood effects, intrinsic interest and creativity; social identity and allegiance, particularly fanship; reconstructive memory

Kurt Hugenberg

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

James H. Rudy Professor

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**

• khugenb@iu.edu
• (812) 856-7499
• PY 355

Research Interests
stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup relations; face perception; social categorization and person construal

Tom James

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**

• thwjames@iu.edu
• (812) 856-0841
• PY 356

Research Interests
visual and haptic perception; object recognition; cross-sensory integration; priming and adaptation; functional neuroimaging

Anne Krendl

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall 2026**

• akrendl@iu.edu
• (812) 856-0840
• PY 364

Research Interests
social neuroscience; social cognition & aging; healthy & pathological aging; stigma

Mary Murphy

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**

• mcmpsych@iu.edu
• (812) 855-4581
• PY 348

Research Interests
self and social identity threat; stereotype threat; stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup dynamics/relations; interracial interaction and friendship; organizational lay theories; structural and psychological barriers for underrepresented groups; race and ethnicity

Robert "BJ" Rydell

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall 2026**

• rjrydell@iu.edu
• (812) 855-7608
• PY 344

Research Interests
social cognition; attitude formation, representation, and change; impression formation; stereotype threat