Kayley Okst is currently a PhD student in the Politics and Intergroup Relations lab (PIRL) at New York University (NYU) working with Dr. Eric Knowles. She earned her BA in Psychology from Boston College in 2019. During her undergraduate career, she worked with Dr. Andrea Heberlein on an honors thesis exploring the impacts of political disagreement on how we perceive others’ minds.
Kayley’s research in political psychology explores the relationships between partisan identity, intergroup attitudes, and self-stereotyping. She is also interested in the psychological roots of issue polarization, investigating the mechanisms through which formerly widely supported topics undergo a shift towards polarization within the US political landscape.
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