Rani is a Ph.D. student in social psychology working with Drs. Lisa Libby and Dylan Wagner. She uses a social cognitive and social neuroscience approach to study how familiarity affects the way we perceive, think about, and act towards others. Specifically, she is interested in the effects of subjective perspectives on trait and personality characterization of others, trait transference, experiences of discrimination, and tokenism. She uses both behavioral (survey data) and neural imaging (fMRI) methods to explore these research questions.