Teceta Tormala
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- Name
- Teceta Tormala
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- Position
- Ph.D., Assistant Professor
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- Core Program Faculty
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- Biography
Dr. Teceta Tormala is a social psychologist whose experimental work has focused on the causes and consequences of the perception of prejudice by low- and high-status group members, and on racial and ethnic identity processes among Black immigrants.
Dr. Tormala earned her undergraduate degree at Duke University, and received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University. She completed an NSF-funded postdoctoral fellowship at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Prior to joining the faculty at Palo Alto University, Dr. Tormala was a lecturer at Stanford University, and a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University.
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