Projects

• Aging and its Tropes

  (Columbia University)

• Community Commons

biography

Professor of Psychology, Columbia University. Director, Social Relations Laboratory, Columbia University. Director of Research, Center for Justice, Columbia University. Professor Downey’s main interest is the study of personal and status based rejection. In her current work, she is exploring people’s expectations of rejection and their impact on the perception of other people’s behavior, in anticipation of and following social encounters

research interests