Katherine Thorson
Assistant Professor
Department
Psychology
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By Appointment
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212-854-2069
kthorson@barnard.edu
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Katherine Thorson is a social psychologist who joined Barnard?in 2019 after completing postdoctoral research at New York University. She studies?interpersonal interactions, with a focus on how people from different social groups influence one another’s psychological experiences and physiological responses.?Her research has been funded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and was selected as a finalist for the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award. She has a BA in psychology from Bates College and an MA and a PhD in psychology from New York University.?
B.A., Bates College
M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Interpersonal processes
Intergroup relations
Emotion
Psychophysiology
Dyadic data analysis and multilevel modeling
Thorson, K. R., Forbes, C. E., Magerman, A. B., & West, T.V. (2019). Under threat but engaged: Stereotype threat leads women to engage with female but not male partners in math.Contemporary Educational Psychology, 58, 243-259.
Thorson, K. R., West, T. V., & Mendes, W. B. (2018). Measuring physiological influence in dyads: A guide to designing, implementing, and analyzing dyadic physiological studies.Psychological Methods, 23(4), 595-616.
Thorson, K. R., & West, T. V. (2018). Physiological linkage to an interaction partner is negatively associated with stability in sympathetic nervous system responding.Biological Psychology, 138, 91-95.