Faculty

Profile

College / Department

Teaching areas

Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Psychology Research Practicum, Research Methods I, Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Discrimination

Research areas

Cultural Psychology, Social Identity, Status, Stereotyping and Prejudice

Education

PhD, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, 2007

MA, Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, 2003

BS, Psychology, Eckerd College, United States, 2001

Professional experience

Professor Of Psychology, Department Of Psychology, American University of Sharjah, 2021 - Present

Honorary Appointment, Department Of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States, 2012 - Present

Associate Professor Of Psychology, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2015 - 2021

Assistant Professor Of Psychology, Department Of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2009 - 2015

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School Of Psychology, University of Kent, Kent, United States, 2007 - 2009

Memberships

Society for the Teaching of Psychology, International, November 2021

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2437

Dr. Angela Maitner

Professor

PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Angela Maitner completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Her research investigates the impact of culture and social identity on emotion, behavior, and cognition, and how emotion and cognition function differently in different social contexts. She maintains research collaborations around the globe.

Publications

Youngki Hong, Angela Maitner And Kyle Ratner. Psychological effects of anti-Arab politics on American and Arab peoples' views of each other, Plos One, 1 May 2024

Per Andersson, Irina Vartanova, Daniel Västfjäll, Gustav Tinghög, Pontus Strimling, Junhui Wu, Isabela Hazin, Charity Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Björnstjerna, Paweł Boski, Inna Bovina, Bui Huyen, Đorđe Čekrlija, Hoon Choi, Carlos Contreras-ibáñez, Rui Costa-lopes, Mícheál De Barra, Piyanjali De Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Jan Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Xia Fang, Susann Fiedler, Olivia Foster-gimbel, Márta Fülöp, Ragna ...

Giulia Andrighetto, Aron Szekely, Andrea Guido, Michele Gelfand, Jered Abernathy, Gizem Arikan, Zeynep Aycan, Shweta Bankar, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-brown, Anabel Belaus, Elizaveta Berezina, Sheyla Blumen, Paweł Boski, Huyen Bui, Juan Cárdenas, Đorđe Čekrlija, Mícheál De Barra, Piyanjali De Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Jan Engelmann, Hyun Euh, Susann Fiedler, Olivia Foster-gimbel, Gonçalo Freitas, Marta Fülöp, Ragna Gardarsdottir, Colin Gill, Andreas Glöckner, Sylvie Graf, Ani Grigoryan, Katarzyna Growiec, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Tim Hopthrow, Martina Hřebíčková, Hirotaka ...

Natasza Kosakowska-berezecka, Jennifer Bosson, Paweł Jurek, Tomasz Besta, Michał Olech, Joseph Vandello, Michael Bender, Justine Dandy, Vera Hoorens, Inga Jasinskaja-lahti, Eric Mankowski, Satu Venäläinen, Sami Abuhamdeh, Collins Agyemang, Gülçin Akbaş, Nihan Albayrak-aydemir, Soline Ammirati, Joel Anderson, Gulnaz Anjum, Amarina Ariyanto, John Aruta, Mujeeba Ashraf, Aistė Bakaitytė, Maja Becker, Chiara Bertolli, Dashamir Bërxulli, Deborah Best, Chongzeng Bi, Katharina Block, Mandy Boehnke, Renata Bongiorno, Janine Bosak, Annalisa Casini, Qingwei Chen, Peilian Chi, Vera Cubela ...

Alaa Itani, Christopher Coleman, Rashed Alghazali, Mohammad Almalik, Aline Da Silva Frost, Neda Fadavi, Misha Imran, Katherine Weltzien, Sarah Yousef, Alison Ledgerwood And Angela Maitner. Are negative frames equally sticky across cultural contexts? Exploring sequential framing effects with Arab participants in the UAE, Current Research In Ecological And Social Psychology, 4 June 2023

Angela Maitner. Perceptions and explanations of status in the United Arab Emirates: The role of ascribed and achieved characteristics., Group Processes And Intergroup Relations, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2023

Angela Maitner And Amy Summerville. “What Was Meant to Be” Versus “What Might Have Been”: Effects of Culture and Control on Counterfactual Thinking., Journal Of Personality And Social Psychology, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2022

Angela Maitner, Jamie Decoster, Per Andersson, Kimmo Eriksson, Sara Sherbaji, Roger Giner-sorolla, Diane Mackie, Mark Aveyard, Heather Claypool, Richard Crisp And Others. Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures, Journal Of Cross-cultural Psychology, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2022

Richard Crisp, Angela Maitner And Andrew Marcinko. From culture to cognition: Social categorization theory reloaded, March 2022

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Michele Gelfand, Junhui Wu, Jered Abernathy, Charity Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Per Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, Gizem Arikan, Zeynep Aycan, Fatemeh Bagherian, Davide Barrera, Dana Basnight-brown, Birzhan Batkeyev, Anabel Belaus, Elizaveta Berezina, Marie Björnstjerna, Sheyla Blumen, Paweł Boski, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Inna Bovina, Bui Huyen, Juan Cardenas, Đorđe Čekrlija, Hoon Choi, Carlos Contreras-ibáñez, Rui Costa-lopes, Mícheál De Barra, Piyanjali De Zoysa, Angela Dorrough, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Anja Eller, Jan Engelmann, Hyun ...

Jennifer Bosson, Paweł Jurek, Joseph Vandello, Natasza Kosakowska-berezecka, Michał Olech, Tomasz Besta, Michael Bender, Vera Hoorens, Maja Becker, A. Timur Sevincer, Deborah Best, Saba Safdar, Anna Włodarczyk, Magdalena Zawisza, Magdalena Żadkowska, Sami Abuhamdeh, Collins Badu Agyemang, Gülçin Akbaş, Nihan Albayrak-aydemir, Soline Ammirati, Joel Anderson, Gulnaz Anjum, Amarina Ariyanto, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Mujeeba Ashraf, Aistė Bakaitytė, Chiara Bertolli, Dashamir Bërxulli, Chongzeng Bi, Katharina Block, Mandy Boehnke, Renata Bongiorno, Janine Bosak, Annalisa Casini, ...

Natasza Kosakowska-berezecka, Tomasz Besta, Jennifer Bosson, Paweł Jurek, Joesph Vandello, Deborah Best, Anna Wlodarczyk, Saba Safdar, Magdalena Zawisza, Magdalena Żadkowska, Jurand Sobiecki, Collins Agyemang, Gülçin Akbaş, Soline Ammirati, Joel Anderson, Gulnaz Anjum, John Aruta, Mujeeba Ashraf, Aistė Bakaitytė, Chongzeng Bi, Maja Becker, Michael Bender, Dashamir Bërxulli, Janine Bosak, Serena Daalmans, Justine Dandy, Soledad De Lemus, Nikolay Dvorianchikov, Edgardo Etchezahar, Laura Froehlich, Alin Gavreliuc, Dana Gavreliuc, Ángel Gomez, Hedy Greijdanus, Ani Grigoryan, Miriam ...

Richard Klein, Michelangelo Vianello, Fred Hasselman, Byron Adams, Reginald Adams, Jr, Sinan Alper, Angela Maitner, Jordan Axt, Mayowa Babalola, Bahn\'\ik, \vst\vep\'an And Others. Many Labs 2: Investigating variation in replicability across samples and settings, Advances In Methods And Practices In Psychological Science, 2018

Angela Maitner And P. Henry. Ambivalent sexism in the United Arab Emirates: Quantifying gender attitudes in a rapidly modernizing society, Group Processes And Intergroup Relations, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2018

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Per Andersson, Mark Aveyard, Markus Brauer, Vladimir Gritskov, Toko Kiyonari, David Kuhlman, Angela Maitner, Zoi Manesi, Catherine Molho, Leonard Peperkoorn, Muhammad Rizwan, Adam Stivers, Qirui Tian, Paul Van Lange, Irina Vartanova, Junhui Wu And Toshio Yamagishi. Cultural Universals and Cultural Differences in Meta-Norms about Peer Punishment, Management And Organization Review, 1 December 2017

Angela Maitner, Diane Mackie, Janet Pauketat And Eliot Smith. The impact of culture and identity on emotional reactions to insults, Journal Of Cross-cultural Psychology, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2017

Angela Maitner, Eliot Smith, Diane Mackie, F. Barlow, C. Sibley, F. Barlow And C. Sibley. Intergroup emotions and prejudice: Prejudice and Differentiated Emotional Reactions toward Outgroups., January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017

Angela Maitner, Robert Stewart-ingersoll, Shelley Mckeown, Reeshma Haji, Neil Ferguson, Shelley Mckeown, Reeshma Haji And Neil Ferguson. Social Identity and Peace in the Modern Middle East: Insights from the United Arab Emirates, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2016

Teresa Garcia-marques, Diane Mackie, Angela Maitner And Heather Claypool. Moderation of the familiarity-stereotyping effect: The role of stereotype fit., Social Cognition, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2016

Angela Maitner, Carrie York Al-karam And Amber Haque. Implications of Ethnic Stereotyping for Emirati Society, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2015

Diane Mackie, Angela Maitner, Eliot Smith And T. Nelson. Intergroup emotions theory, September 2015

Diane Mackie, Angela Maitner, Eliot Smith, Robert Scott And Stephen Kosslyn. Emotion and Intergroup Relations, May 2015

Angela Maitner And Jamie Decoster. Perceptions of national wealth and skill influence pay expectations: Replicating global hierarchy on a microscale, Frontiers In Psychology, 1 May 2015

Angela Maitner. Emotional Reactions to Unequal Payment: The Impact of Meritocratic Ideology and Salary Negotiability, Group Processes And Intergroup Relations, 1 March 2015

Roger Giner-sorolla And Angela Maitner. Angry at the unjust, scared of the powerful: Emotional responses to terrorist threat, Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin, 1 August 2013

Richard Crisp, Angela Maitner And Derek Chadee. Social categorization theories: From culture to cognition, February 2011

Angela Maitner, Diane Mackie, Heather Claypool And Richard Crisp. Identity salience moderates processing of group relevant information, Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 1 March 2010

Mark Davis, Angela Maitner, Stefan Stürmer And Mark Snyder. Perspective taking and intergroup helping, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2010

Richard Crisp, Laura Bache And Angela Maitner. Dynamics of social comparison in counter-stereotypic domains: Stereotype boost, not stereotype threat, for women engineering majors, Social Influence, 1 June 2009

Diane Mackie, Angela Maitner, Eliot Smith And Todd Nelson. Intergroup emotions theory, February 2009

Michael Hogg, David Sherman And Angela Maitner. Perceived polarization: Reconciling ingroup and intergroup perceptions under uncertainty, Group Processes And Intergroup Relations, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2009

Robert Rydell, Diane Mackie, Angela Maitner, Heather Claypool, Melissa Ryan And Eliot Smith. Arousal, processing, and risk taking: Consequences of intergroup anger, Personality And Social Psychology Bulletin, 1 August 2008

Angela Maitner, Diane Mackie And Eliot Smith. Antecedents and consequences of satisfaction and guilt following ingroup aggression, Group Processes And Intergroup Relations, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2007

Michael Hogg, David Sherman, J Dierselhuis And Angela Maitner. Uncertainty, entitativity, and group identification, Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2007

Angela Maitner, Diane Mackie And Eliot Smith. Evidence for the regulatory function of intergroup emotion: Emotional consequences of implemented or impeded intergroup action tendencies, Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 1 November 2006

Mary Ann Foley, Hugh Foley, Jamie Durley And Angela Maitner. Anticipating partners' responses: Examining item and source memory following interactive exchanges, Memory And Cognition, 1 October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2006

Eliot Smith, Daniel Miller, Angela Maitner, Sara Crump, Teresa Garcia-marques And Diane Mackie. Familiarity can increase stereotyping, Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2006

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Control Beliefs and Counterfactual Thinking in Arab Participants, June 2022 - May 2025

Grant, Cross-Cultural Differences in Counterfactual Thinking, June 2018 - December 2021

Grant, Examining group identification and emotion profiles across cultures, June 2019 - April 2021

Understanding the endorsement of benevolent sexism in the UAE, NYU Abu Dhabi, 20 July 2014 - 20 July 2017

Awards and Honors

College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Award, College of Arts & Sciences, American University of Sharjah, April 2022

Society for Personality and Social Psychology Bridge-building Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, February 2021

Teaching Excellence Award, College of Arts & Sciences, American University of Sharjah, 18 May 2014