FACULTY
Prof. Shree Vallabha
Prof. Shree Vallabha is Assistant Professor - Psychology. She received her Doctorate Degree in Psychology with a concentration in Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. She has completed a Master’s Degree in Psychology from Michigan State University as well as a Master’s Degree in Cognitive Science from Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS) at University of Allahabad. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Fergusson College, University of Pune.
In the last five years, she was involved in teaching courses like Research Design and Measurement in Psychological Research, Data Analysis in Psychological Research, and Social Psychology at Michigan State University. During her doctoral program, she conducted research on topics such as the moral psychology of collective blame towards groups for historical wrongdoings, social identity and political polarization, morality and political belief systems, and finally in more recent work, she worked on moral humility and political polarization. Notably, her work on moral humility is the first work that developed a validated measure and interventions of moral humility, and examined its antidotal effects in morally inflamed contexts such as political polarization.
Dr. Shree Vallabha’s research interests are in the fields of social, moral, and political psychology. The overarching theme of her research program is investigating conflicts arising from symbolic elements of people’s group memberships such as social identity, values, ideologies, historical and group narratives and so on. She uses a diverse methodological toolkit as well as perspectives from multiple disciplines (e.g., philosophy, political science) to investigate important questions in moral and political psychology.
Published
- Vallabha, S., Doriscar, J., & Brandt, M.J. (2024) When the specter of the past haunts current groups: Psychological antecedents of historical blame. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000452
- Brandt, M.J., & Vallabha, S. (2025) Intraindividual changes in political identity strength (but not direction) are associated with political animosity in the United States and the Netherlands. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231203471
- Brandt, M.J., Vallabha, S., & Turner-Zwinkels, F. (2025) The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic made people feel threatened, but had a limited impact on political attitudes in the United States. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231190233
- Brandt, M. J., Vallabha, S., & Cassario, A. L. (2024). Is political identification a key for political animosity?. In The Tribal Mind and the Psychology of Collectivism (pp. 321-341). Routledge.
- Brandt, M. J., & Vallabha, S. (2023). Inter‐attitude centrality does not appear to reduce persuasion for political attitudes. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2980
- Cassario, A. L., Vallabha, S., Thompson, J. L., Carrillo, A., Solanki, P., Gnall, S. A., Rice, S., Wetherell, G. A., & Brandt, M. J. (2025). Cognitive ability, cognitive reflection, and attitudes towards ideological groups. British Journal of Social Psychology. 10.1111/bjso.12814
- Wetherell, G., Thompson, J., Cassario, A., Brandt, M., Gnall, S., Rice, S., Solanki, P., Vallabha, S., & Carillo, A. (2025). Do mismatches between individual and target group personality predict prejudice? Collabra: Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.136887
Under Review/Under Preparation
- Vallabha, S., & Brandt, M. J. Moral Humility Reduces Political Divisions. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5r6fw
- Vallabha, S., & Brandt, M. J. Moral Humility: An Antidote to the Dark Features of Morality.
- Vallabha, S., & Brandt, M. J. Affective Polarization, A Threat to Democracy (in USA)? Maybe Not.