Elizabeth Fles

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Elizabeth Fles
Chair of Psychology, Assistant Professor
College of Science & Society
Behavioral Science
Carlson Hall, 232

Dr. Fles received her Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN in August of 2019. Her research very broadly focuses on implicit biases. Her dissertation explored the effects of priming White identity on outgroup dehumanization, the results of which suggest that attitudes consistent with White Supremacy may be implicit as well as explicit. Other research projects she has spearheaded involve the role of implicit bias in the interpretation of legal policies such as the right to free speech. Dr. Fles is passionate about teaching and is very excited about her new role as the chair of psychology at the University of Bridgeport, where she focuses on student success and developing new ways to convey complicated concepts in statistics and research methods.

Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Lakey, B., Brummans, J., Obreiter, A., Hubbard, S. A., Vander Molen, R. J., Fles, E. H., ... & Maley, M. (2021). When forecasting mutually supportive matches will be practically impossible. Psychological Science, 32(5), 780-788.

Galen, L. W., Kurby, C. A., & Fles, E. H. (2020). Religiosity, shared identity, trust, and punishment of norm violations: No evidence of generalized prosociality. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rel0000320

Haj-Mohamadi, P., Fles, E. H., & Shteynberg, G. (2018). When can shared attention increase affiliation? On the bonding effects of co-experienced belief affirmation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 103-106. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.007

Fles, E., & Lakey, B. (2017). The personality traits of consensually supportive people. Personality and Individual Differences, 104, 87-91. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.032

Shteynberg, G., Bramlett, J. M., Fles, E. H., & Cameron, J. (2016). The broadcast of shared attention and its impact on political persuasion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 665-673. doi:10.1037/pspa0000065

Dean, K. K., & Fles, E. H. (2016). The effects of independent and interdependent self-construals on reactions to transgressions: distinguishing between guilt and shame. Self and Identity, 15, 90-106. doi:10.1080/15298868.2015.1082500

Lakey, B., Vander Molen, R. J., Fles, E., & Andrews, J. (2015). Ordinary social interaction and the main effect between perceived support and affect. Journal of Personality, 84, 671-684. doi:10.1111/jopy.12190