Alumni, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Apoorva Sarmal is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) program at the University of Georgia. She works in the Georgia Attitudes, Bias, and Behavior Acquisition (GABBA) Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Skinner. She examines social inequalities and negative impacts of social hierarchies which pervade our day-to-day lives. Specifically, Apoorva researches social hierarchies such as race and gender to promote diversity and inclusion. She integrates multiple methodological approaches including, but not limited to, social-cognitive experiments, randomized interventions, qualitative interviews, multi-level models, secondary data analysis, and scale development to rigorously investigate these research questions. Education Education: M.S. in Psychology, University of Georgia, 2022 M.A. in French Linguistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2019 B.A. in French (minor: Psychology), University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2017 B.S. in Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2017 Research Research Interests: Social Psychology; Stereotyping; Prejudice; Racism; Sexism Grants: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Heritage Dissertation Research Award 2024 ($2,000) Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues Grants-in-Aid 2024 ($1,000) Psi Chi Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant 2024 ($1,000) Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Grant 2024, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia ($1,500) George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship 2022, University of Georgia ($2,000) Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award 2021 from Society of Personality and Social Psychology ($1,000) Selected Publications Selected Publications: *Sarmal, A., ~*Cha, L., *Skinner, A.L. (in press). Shifts in Racial Inequalities and White Backlash in the 21st Century U.S. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Rogbeer, K. G., Sarmal, A., Ware, C., Zhu, J. (2023). Challenging Race-Based Medicine Through Historical Education About the Social Construction of Race. Health Equity, 7(1), 764-772. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0036 Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Sarmal, A., Rogbeer, K., André, C. J., Patel, B., & Cha, L. (2022). Highlighting COVID-19 Racial Disparities Can Reduce Support for Safety Precautions Among White U.S. Residents. Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114951 Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., ˆSarmal, A., ˆAndré, C. J., & Rogbeer, K. G. (2021). How microaggressions reinforce and perpetuate systemic racism in the U.S. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(5), 903-925. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211002543 Other Information Of note: Summer 2024 - Summer Scholar Intern, National Science Foundation Summer Scholar. Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES, National Science Foundation/Quality Education for Minorities Network, Washington, D.C. & Alexandria, VA Summer 2023 - Fellow, National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (Course: Toward Theorizing and Studying Emotion as a Multi-level System of Systems: From Cell to Self to Society) Summer 2023: Teaching Assistant, Regression Analysis II Linear Models, ICPSR, University of Michigan.
