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Rajen A. Anderson
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
Office: G70
raa255@cornell.edu
(407) 376-0319
Education
2014-present
PhD in Social/Personality Psychology, Cornell University
Advisor: David Pizarro, Ph.D.
2012-2014
MA in Psychology, Wake Forest University
Advisor: E. J. Masicampo, Ph.D.
2007-2011
BS in Psychology, Magna cum Laude, University of Florida
Advisor: James Shepperd, Ph.D.
Research Interests
morality, judgment and decision making, person-perception, politics, privacy
Publications
Masicampo, E. J., Martin, S. R., & Anderson, R. A. (2014). Understanding and overcoming selfcontrol depletion. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 8(11), 638-649.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (in preparation). Protecting the innocence of youth: Moral
sanctity values underlie censorship from young children.
Conference Presentations
Anderson, R. A., & Pizarro, D. A. (January, 2016). Moral judgments of online companies. Talk
to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (February, 2015). Naughty or nice: How people morally
perceive children who hold fantastical beliefs. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
Stone, E., Anderson, R. A., MacDonald Gibson, J., Rowe, A., Bruine de Bruin, & W. (November,
2014). Risk communication: Costs of communicating the uncertainty associated with the
risk probabilities. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment
and Decision Making, Long Beach, CA.
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Anderson, R. A., Costello, C. K., Helzer, E. G., Furr, R. M., & Fleeson, W. (February, 2014).
Individual and situational predictors of helping: Results from a 10-week longitudinal
study. Talk presented at the Morality and Justice Preconference held at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (February, 2014). Concerns of moral sanctity drive
censoring from young children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (November, 2013). Concerns of moral sanctity drive
censoring from young children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society
for Southeastern Social Psychologists, Augusta, GA.
Anderson, R. A., & Masicampo, E. J. (March, 2013). Concerns of moral purity drive censoring
from young children. Poster presented at the annual Wake Forest University Graduate
Student & Post Doc Research Day, Winston-Salem, NC.
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
2015
Society for Personality and Social Psychology – $500 Graduate
Student Travel Award
2013
Wake Forest Graduate School – $500 Alumni Travel Award
2013
Wake Forest Graduate School – $500 Summer Research Support
2012-2014
Wake Forest Graduate School – Full Tuition Award
2007-2011
Bright Futures Scholarship – Florida Academic Scholars Award
Research Appointments
2013-2014
Research Assistant for The Character Project, Wake Forest
University
2012-2014
Research Assistant for Forecasting ACE, Wake Forest University
2009-2011
Research Assistant for James Sheppard, University of Florida
Teaching Positions
2015-present
Instructor for “Introduction to Social Psychology” Writing in the
Majors section, Cornell University
2015
Teaching Assistant for “The Ethical Mind,” Cornell Adult
University
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2015
Section Instructor for “The Individual in the Social World,”
Cornell University
2014
Teaching Assistant for “Psychology and Law,” Cornell University
2013-2014
Lab Instructor for “Research Methods in Psychology I,” Wake
Forest University
Service
2015-present
SONA Administrator, Cornell University
2015
Workshop leader for Expand Your Horizons program for
promoting science to middle school girls
Memberships
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Association for Psychological Science
Phi Kappa Phi