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Meara Habashi

Meara Habashi

Assistant Department Head
Organizational Behavior/Human Resources

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, Purdue University
M.S., Social Psychology, Purdue University
B.A., Psychology, Baylor University

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Dr. Habashi received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2008 from Purdue University. Since that time, she has spent a number of years teaching and researching at various institutions. Dr. Habashi joined the faculty at Krannert in 2016 after spending 5 years at the University of Iowa.

Dr. Habashi's primary research focus is in the area of motivation and emotion. She is particularly interested in how individual differences and emotion act as motivators of social behavior. Her research takes a traditional social cognitive person X situation approach to examine how different types of motivations affect various domains of behavior, including occupational preference, helping behavior, and information processing.

Journal Articles

  • Clark, J.K., Thiem, K.C., Hoover, A.E., & Habashi, M.M. (2017). Gender stereotypes and intellectual performance: Stigma consciousness as a buffer against stereotype validation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, vol. 68 185-191. | Download |
  • Habashi, M.M., Graziano, W.G., & Hoover, A.E. (2016). Searching for the prosocial personality: A big five approach to linking personality and prosocial behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 42 1177-1192. | Download |
  • Woodcock, A., Graziano, W.G., Branch, S.E., Habashi, M.M., Ngambeki, I., & Evangelou, D. (2013). Person and Thing Orientations: Psychological correlates and predictive utility. Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 4 116-123. | Download |
  • Clark, J.K., Wegener, D.T., Habashi, M.M., & Evans, A.T. (2012). Source expertise and persuasion: The effects of perceived opposition or support on message scrutiny. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 38 90-100. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Evangelou, D., & Ngambeki, I. (2012). Orientations & motivations: Are you a “people person,” a “thing person,’ or both?. Motivation and Emotion, vol. 36 465-447. | Download |
  • Ngambeki, I., Habashi, M.M., Evangelou, D., Graziano, W.G., Sakka, D., & Corpaci, F. (2012). Using profiles of Person-Thing Orientation to examine the underrepresentation of women in engineering in three cultural contexts. International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 28 621-632. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Woodcock, A. (2011). Exploring and measuring differences in person-thing orientations. Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 51 28-33. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2010). Motivational Processes Underlying Both Prejudice and Helping. Personality and Social Psychology Review, vol. 14 313-331. | Download |
  • Graziano, W.G., Habashi, M.M., Sheese, B.E., & Tobin, R.M. (2007). Agreeableness, empathy, and helping: A Person X Situation perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 93 583-599. | Download |

Book Chapters

  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2015). The quest for the prosocial personality.. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 231-255.
  • Graziano, W.G., & Habashi, M.M. (2009). Agreeableness and relationships. Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA.
  • Habashi, M.M., & Graziano, W.G. (2007). Agreeableness. Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks, CA. 25-27.

Contact

mhabashi@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 49-41030
Office: KRAN 545

Area(s) of Expertise

women in management, gender differences in STEM, personality, prosocial behavior