Spassena (Sena) Koleva ACADEMIC CV
EDUCATION
2011 Ph.D. Social & Personality Psychology (minor: Quantitative Methods), UC Irvine
2010 M.A. Social Ecology, UC Irvine
2005 B.A. Psychology, California State University, San Marcos; Summa cum laude
HONORS and AWARDS
Sloan Foundation Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Fellow, 2014
USC Postdoctoral Association Travel Award ($1000), 2013
Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Fellowship Finalist, 2013
Summer Institute, Big Questions in Free Will, Florida State University, 2012
Most Promising Future Faculty Member award, UC Irvine ($8222), 2010
– Given yearly to two UC Irvine graduate students across all fields.
Social Ecology Alumni Award, UC Irvine ($900), 2010
1st place in a National Scientific Writing Contest ($1000), 2010
– Science20.com competition for best scientific blog written for a general audience
Advanced Training Institute, American Psychological Association, 2009
Summer Institute, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2007
Summa Cum Laude, California State University, San Marcos, 2005
Psi Chi National Honors Society in Psychology, 2004 – 2005
RESEARCH FUNDING
Research Grant (w/ Drs. J. Graham, J. Haidt, R. Iyer, & P. Ditto), Templeton Foundation, $400,000
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $10,000
Research Grant, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, $3,000
Various Research Grants, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine, $3,400
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Selterman, D. & Koleva, S. (in press). Moral Judgment of Close Relationship Behaviors. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Graham, J., Meindl, P., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., & Johnson, K. M. (in press). When values and behavior conflict: Moral pluralism and intrapersonal moral hypocrisy. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Koleva, S., Beall, E, & Graham, J. (in press) Moral Foundations Theory: Building Value Through Moral Pluralism. To appear in the Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management (edited by Alejo José G. Sison). Springer, New York.
Smith, I., Aquino, R., Koleva, S., & Graham, J. (in press). The Moral Ties that Bind…Even to Outgroups: The Interactive Effect of Moral Identity and the Binding Moral Foundations. Psychological Science.
Lai, C. K., Marini, M., Lehr, S. A., Cerruti, C., Shin, J. L., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Ho, A. K., Teachman, B. A., Wojcik, S. P., Koleva, S. P., Frazier, R. S., Heiphetz, L., Chen, E., Turner, R. N., Haidt, J., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Schaefer, H. S., Rubichi, S., Sartori, G., Dial, C. M., Sriram, N., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (in press). Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Zhang, J. W., Piff, K., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Keltner, D. (in press). An occasion for unselfing: Beautiful nature leads to prosociality. Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Koleva, S., Selterman, D., Iyer, R., Ditto, P., & Graham, J. (2013). The moral compass of insecurity: anxious and avoidant attachment predict moral judgment. Social Psychological and Personality Science.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., Koleva, S., Motyl, M., Iyer, R., Wojcik, S., & Ditto, P. H. (in press). Moral Foundations Theory: The pragmatic validity of moral pluralism. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.
Koleva, S. P., Graham, J., Ditto, P., Iyer, R., & Haidt, J. (2012). Tracing the threads: how five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes. Journal of Research in Personality, 46(2), 184-194.
Koleva, S. P. & Haidt, J. (2012). Let’s use Einstein’s safety razor, not Occam’s Swiss army knife or Occam’s chainsaw, Psychological Inquiry, 23, 175-178.
Iyer, R., Koleva, S., Graham, J, Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2012). Understanding libertarian morality: the psychological dispositions of self-identified Libertarians, PLoS ONE 7(8): e42366.
Ditto, P. & Koleva, S. P. (2011). Moral empathy gaps and the American culture war. Emotion Review (special issue on “Morality and Emotion,” ed. Joshua Greene), 3(3), 331-332.
Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(2), 366-385.
Glenn A. L., Koleva, S., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Haidt, J. (2010). Moral identity in psychopathy. Judgment and Decision Making, 5(7), 497-505.
Iyer, R., Graham, J, Koleva, S., Ditto, P., & Haidt, J. (2010). Beyond identity politics: Moral psychology and the 2008 Democratic primary. Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy, 10(1), 2093-306.
Koleva, S. P., & Rip, B. (2009). Attachment and political ideology: An integrative framework. Social Justice Research, 22, 241–258.
Glenn, A. L., Iyer, R., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Haidt, J. (2009). Are all types of morality compromised in psychopathy? Journal of Personality Disorders, 23(4), 384–398.
Critcher, C. R., Huber, M., Ho, A. K., & Koleva, S. P. (2009). Political orientation and ideological inconsistencies: (Dis)comfort with value tradeoffs. Social Justice Research, 22,181–205.
Ditto, P. H. & Koleva, S. P. (2009). Advanced directives and end-of-life medical decision making. Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
GENERAL AUDIENCE / MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS
Koleva, S. P. (April 7, 2014). The Moral Compass of Insecure Attachment. Society for Personality and Social Psychology: Character and Context. Retrieved from http://www.spspblog.org/the-moral-compass-of-insecure-attachment/.
Koleva, S. P. (2012). Future of a generation, Science, 335 (6064), Retrieved from Supplemental Material at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/36/suppl/DC1.
Koleva, S. (2012). Recent developments in ideology research. Observer, 25(8). October, 2012.
Koleva, S. (2010). The new science of love and attraction. Grand prize winner of Science20.com scientific blogging contest. Retrieved from http://www.science20.com/contest2010/spring
Koleva, S. P. (2008). Working Harder Than We Play, Playing Harder Than We Work. Dialogue, 23(1),18.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW AND IN PREPARATIONS
Selterman, D. & Koleva, S. (under review). Moral Judgment of Close Relationship Behaviors. Submitted to Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Koleva, S.P., Selterman, D., & Graham, J. (in revision). Beyond care and justice: The moral signatures of women and men.
Koleva, S.P., Moskowitz, J., Li, Z., & Graham, J. (in preparation). The varities of non-religious experience: distinct psychological profiles of atheists, agnostics, and the "spiritual but not religious".
TEACHING
2014 – 2015 Lecturer, CSU Los Angeles
2013 – 2013 Lecturer, University of Southern California
2005 – 2013 Guest Lectures at UC Irvine, University of Southern California
2009 – 2010 Graduate Writing Consultant, Graduate Resource Center, UC Irvine
2005 – 2009 Graduate Teaching Assistant, UC Irvine (a non-exclusive list of courses)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Grant reviewer: National Science Foundation
Ad hoc reviewer: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Emotion Review, Political Psychology, PLoS One, Journal of Politics, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Medical Decision Making
Member of Council on Educational Policy, Academic Senate, UC Irvine
Member of Faculty Search Committee, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine
REFERENCES
Peter H. Ditto, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, UC Irvine, phditto@uci.edu
Jesse Graham, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology, University of Southern California, jesse.graham@usc.edu
Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology, New York University, jhaidt@stern.nyu.edu
Belinda Campos, Ph.D, Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine, bcampos@uci.edu
Eric D. Knowles, Ph.D., Professor, New York University, eric.knowles@nyu.edu