Angela Maitner
Visiting Professor of Psychology
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: BA Eckerd College; MA University of California, Santa Barbara; PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Areas: Social identity, culture, social cognition
Angela Maitner is a social psychologist with expertise in culture. Her research investigates the impact of culture and social identity on emotion, behavior, and cognition, and how emotion and cognition function differently in different social contexts. Her work looks within, between, and across national landscapes, thus she maintains research collaborations around the globe.
Maitner completed her PhD in the US and a postdoctoral fellowship in the U.K. before moving to the UAE in 2009. Thus, she has studied psychology in three different national contexts with different social and political systems, all of which ‘unite’ different identity groups. Maitner has worked at the American University of Sharjah since 2009, where she helped create a bachelor's degree in psychology and serves as Head of Department. She advocates strongly for increasing representation in the field.