Hansen, Ian

Professor

Behavioral Sciences

Phone: 718-262-5181
Office Location: AC-4D06
Email: ihansen@york.cuny.edu

I am a Professor of Psychology, with experience in social psychology, cultural psychology, political psychology and psychology of religion. My research explores themes like (1) religiosity and psychological liberalism as inversely-related inclinations that independently predict anti-oppression and anti-atrocity values (2) support for torture as a reflection of authoritarian punitiveness, (3) how making the potential abuse of power salient affects the relation between forgiveness and egalitarianism, and (4) experimental approaches to transforming ideological self-construal. My other areas of teaching expertise and professional engagement include psychology of terrorism and history of psychology, with a particular emphasis on the history of the dissident psychologist movement pushing the U.S. psychology profession away from post-9/11 involvement in often torturous detainee interrogations, and out of related detention settings.

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Areas of Expertise

• Social Psychology
• Cultural Psychology
• Psychology of Religion
• Political Psychology

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