Hansen, Ian
Associate Professor
Behavioral Sciences
Phone: 718-262-5181
Office Location: AC-4D06
IHansen@york.cuny.edu
Education
Degree | Institution | Field | Dates |
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PhD | University of British Columbia | Social Psychology | 2007 |
MA | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign | Social Psychology | 2002 |
certificate | University of Hong Kong | Psychology | 2000 |
BA | Swarthmore College | Philosophy | 1996 |
Areas of Expertise
- Social Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Psychology of Religion
Political Psychology
Articles in Field Of Expertise
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Hansen, I. G.. "The analytic utility of distinguishing fighting from dying." Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41 : e204.
Hansen, I. G. (2018). "Resisting denial of the psychology profession’s role in post-9/11 torture." Clio's Psyche. 24 : 115-120.
Hansen, I. G., Jackson, V.-W. & Ryder, A. (2017). "Religion and Oppression: Cross-National and Experimental Investigations." Religion Brain & Behavior. online : 1-24.
Hansen, I. G. & Callaghan, B. (2017). "Cuing Moral Transcendence Reduces Support for Torture And Disentangles It From Retributive and Utilitarian Concerns." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. 9 : 37-56.
Hansen, I. G. & Ryder, A. (2016). "In search of ‘religion proper’: Intrinsic religiosity and coalitional rigidity make opposing predictions of intergroup hostility across religious groups." Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 47 : 835-857.
Dar-Nimrod, I., Hansen, I., Proulx, T., Lehman, D. R., Chapman, B. P., & Duberstein, P. R. (2012). "Coolness: an empirical investigation." Journal of Individual Differences. 33 : 175-185.
Ginges, J., Hansen, I. G. & Norenzayan, A. (2010). "Religious belief, coalitional commitment, and support for suicide attacks." Evolutionary Psychology. 8 : 346-349.
Ginges, J., Hansen, I. G. & Norenzayan, A. (2009). "Religion and support for suicide attacks." Psychological Science. 20 : 222-230.
Norenzayan, A., Dar Nimrod, I., Hansen, I. G., & Proulx, T. (2009). "Mortality salience and religion: Divergent effects on the defense of cultural values for the religious and the non-religious." European Journal of Social Psychology. 39 : 101-113.
Norenzayan, A., Hansen, I. G. & Cady, J. (2008). "An angry volcano? Reminders of death and anthropomorphizing nature." Social Cognition. 26 : 190-197.
Norenzayan, A. & Hansen, I. G. (2006). "Belief in supernatural agents in the face of death." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 32 : 174-187.
Hong, Y., Liao, H., Chan, G., Wong, R., Chiu, C., Ip, G.W., Fu, H. & Hansen, I. G. (2006). "Temporal causal links between outgroup attitudes and social categorization: The case of Hong Kong 1997 transition." Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 9 : 265-288.
Hong, Y., Coleman, J., Chan, G., Wong, R. Y. M., Chiu, C., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y., & Fu, H. (2004). "Predicting intergroup bias: The interactive effects of implicit theory and social identity." Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin. 30 : 1035-1047.
Hong, Y., Chan, G., Chiu, C., Wong, R. Y. M., Hansen, I. G., Lee, S., Tong, Y. & Fu, H. (2003). "How are social identities linked to self-conception and intergroup orientation? The moderating effect of implicit theories." Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. 85 : 1147-1160.
Chapters in Field Of Expertise
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Hansen, I. G. (2017). "Self-Actualizing Creativity." Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. online : 1-3.
Hansen, I. G. (2017). "Self-Actualization Needs." Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. online : 1-4.
Hansen, I. G. (2017). "Self-Actualization." Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. online : 1-3.
Mustakova-Possardt, E., Basseches, M., Oxenberg, J., & Hansen, I. G. (2013). "Transforming a limited social function into a viable global action agenda." Toward a socially responsible psychology for a global era. 1 : 21-46.
Hansen, I. G. & Norenzayan, A. (2006). "Between yang and yin and heaven and hell: Untangling the complex relationship between religion and intolerance." Where God and Science Meet: How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion. 3 : 187-211.
Suedfeld, P. & Hansen, I. G. (2006). "The many faces of international political psychology." Political Psychology. 1 : 63-87.
Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances
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" The role of the psychology profession in Guantanamo Bay Prison and US torture " May 2017: Talk presented at the V International Seminar of Peace and Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, Guantanamo, Cuba.
" Can Trump torture without psychologists " January 2017: Lecture presented to the Psychology Department, Auckland University.
" Can Trump torture without psychologists? " January 2017: Lecture presented to the Psychology Department, Sydney University.
" Peace Psychology: A Lecture Series " December 2016-January 2017: Series of lectures and facilitated activities, Nanjing Normal University.
" Minimizing denial after the Hoffman Report: Can we look deeply into the dark side of the psychology profession? " May, 2016: Talk presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the International Psychohistorical Association, New York, NY.
" Narcissism, psychopathy, and bigoted oppression: Making psychological-ideological sense of the Trump phenomenon. " April, 2016: Symposium presented at 44th Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY.
" Religious impulses and ideological outcomes: How religious processes can lean left (in spite of also leaning right) " April, 2016: Symposium presented at 44th Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY.
" Religion and liberty: Cross-national and experimental investigations. " March, 2016: Talk presented at Division 36 Midyear Conference on Psychology, Religion and Spirituality.
" Students, Social Justice, & PsySR: Are Psychology Degrees& Benefiting the World Compatible? (with Mary Pelton-Cooper) " August, 2015: Invited presentation at Psychologists for Social Responsibility Teach-In, Toronto, ON.
" Militarism and Psychology (with Serdar Degirmencioglu and Alice LoCicero) " August, 2015: Invited presentation at Psychologists for Social Responsibility Teach-In, Toronto, ON.
" How psychopathy and moral beauty engagement bisect the liberal-left vs. conservative-right divide. (with Abraham Dickey III and Gabriela Cedillo) " April, 2015: Symposium presented at the 43rd Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY..
" Torture as a moral issue and a source of corruption in the health professions. " March, 2015: Invited talk at Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY.
" Religion and politics through the lens of social and political psychology " April, 2014: Attendees of York College Provost Lecture Series.
" When divorcing conservatism from care, people become less conservative. " June, 2014: Symposium on “Does a liberal vs. conservative framework shortchange explanatory power? Towards a dynamic two-dimensional approach to ideology”.
" The instability of ideology: How different framings of moral divides affect ideological construal " January, 2013: Symposium on “Beyond liberalism vs. conservatism: The contextual and dynamic nature of ideological construal”, Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
" The ironic effect of considering oneself part of the 99%: Reduced support for activism and equality in a liberal student sample " July, 2012: Symposium on “The dynamics and challenges of activism in the Occupy movement” at the Psychologists for Social Responsibility Conference, Washington, DC.
" The malleability of ideological construal and implications for support for torture " July, 2012: Symposium on “Left and right or right and wrong? A political psychological approach to understanding attitudes toward torture” at the Psychologists for Social Responsibility Conference, Washington, DC.
" Does the culture war divide make us more comfortable with supporting torture? " April, 2012: Annual Hunter College Psychology Convention, New York, NY.
" What we talk about when we talk about conservatism " January, 2012: Symposium on “A Christian Nation facing the 21st century: How religion shapes modern America, and its role in a changing society”, Annual Conference of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
" The Efficience of Corporate Corruption " July, 2011: Roundtable on "The Psychology of Corporate Corruption," Psychologists For Social Responsibility Conference, Brookline, MA.
" How the Culture War Sustains Real Wars " July, 2011: Roundtable on "The Psychological and Structural Aspects of War," Psychologists for Social Responsibility Conference, Brookline, MA.
" Does National Religiosity Sit Well or Badly With National Peace and Freedom? " January, 2011: Psychology of Religion Pre-Conference of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
" The Ironic Trinity: Liberalism-Conservatism, Tolerance-Intolerance, and Religion-Nonreligion " October, 2009: Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Denver, CO.
" Religion as a paradoxical predictor of religious intolerance " May, 2007: Symposium on "The Social Benefits and Hazards of Religion," Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships
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President's Award for mentoring research students: 2016.
Provost's Award for mentoring research students, York College, CUNY: 2015.
Provost's Award for mentoring research students, York College, CUNY: 2014.
Selected to present a talk, "Religion and Politics Through the Lens of Social and Political Psychology", at the Provost Lecture Series, York College, CUNY: 2014.
Provost's Award for mentoring research students, York College, CUNY: 2013.
Admission to CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program: 2012-2013.
Izaak Walton Killam pre-doctoral fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia: 2004-2005.
University graduate fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia: 2003.
Graduate entrance scholarship, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia: 2002.
Phi Beta Kappa: 1996.
National Merit Scholar: 1992.
Grants-In-Aid
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PSC-CUNY 48 Research Award, Between Trump’s Republicans and the Standing Rock Sioux: The ambiguity of North American religiosity. 2017: $6000.
PSC-CUNY 46 Research Award, Ego depletion, religion and politics. 2015: $5990.
PSC-CUNY 45 Research Award, Beyond liberal and conservative: Transcending the one-dimensionality of ideological discourse in psychology. 2014: $5748.
PSC-CUNY 43 Research Award, Conservatism without atrocity? Testing the stability of the relationship between ideology and policy preference. 2012: $5466.
William Stewart Travel Award for National and International Conferences, Symposium Presentation at Annual Conference of Society for Personality and Social Psychology. 2012: $500.
Offices Held In Professional Societies
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President Psychologists for Social Responsibility: January - December 2017.
Steering Committee, Psychologists for Social Responsibility: Spring 2012 to present.
Other Professional Activities and Public Service
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Organized a town hall on the Hoffman Report for Psychologists for Social Responsibility in advance of the American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, ON: August, 2014.
Organized monthly “PsySR First Sundays” on first Sundays of the month at New School University for discussion of research findings and other contemporary issues in Psychology.: Spring, 2014.
Co-coordinated the organization of a regional conference for PsySR in New York City: October, 2013.
Chaired a seminar on "Interrogation Psychologists: New Practice or Malpractice?" at the Center on Terrorism, John Jay College, CUNY: March 9, 2012.
Presented a talk on research ethics in times of torture, Amnesty Interational's Torture Awareness Campaign, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: November 2, 2010.