Anjana Lakshmi University of Chicago

Anjana is a graduate student and PhD candidate, working with Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow and Dr. Susan Fiske. She comes from a background in Computer Science Engineering, Business Psychology Consulting and Social Psychology research in stereotyping and prejudice. Anjana is interested in studying social categorization, stereotype content, and their consequences along the face modality and the non-verbal gesture modality. Her current and future projects include face representations of social groups based on group membership as well as within-group status differences, and the implicit communication of stereotype content through non-verbal gestures.