Janene Cielto

Instructor

Education

BA: Howard University; Psychology
MA: Northestern University; Cognitive Psychology

Research Interests

I am currently pursing two lines of research, both of which focus on my broad interest in racial bias and inequity. The first explores how individuals negotiate and express their feature-based evaluations of Black Women during spontaneous interpersonal encounters. The second, a collaborative venture, focuses on how adolescent black girls make sense of their intersectional identities in educational settings. In both cases, I center the role of experience in social category representation to explore identity perception, as well as its impact on interaction processes.

Courses Taught

Psychology 306 Research Methods in Psychology
Psychology 307 Psychology of Language