Anne Maass

Professor of Psychology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA University of Heidelberg (Germany); MA University of Heidelberg; MA Florida State University; PhD Florida State University

Research Websites: Social Attitudes and Neurolinguistic Dynamics (SAND) Lab

Research Areas: language and social cognition; stereotyping; psychology of economic inequality


Anne Maass is a social psychologist. Her main research interests concern (a) the intersection between language and social cognition, (b) gender stereotypes and stereotype threat, and (c) the psychology of economic inequality. She has worked at the University of Padua (Italy) and has visited numerous universities around the globe (Arizona State University, UC Davis, University of Kiel, Griffith University, University of Heidelberg, Nagoya University, University of Mannheim, and the New School for Social Research, NY) where she has taught and/or conducted research. She has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology. She has received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize in 2007 (together with Carnaghi et al.), the Henri Tajfel Award in 2011, and is a member of the German National Academy of the Sciences (Leopoldina).

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