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Mina Cikara is a social neuroscientist known for her work on intergroup dynamics, social identity, the psychological and biological factors of "us and them" and "me and you." She is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology and a Director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University.

Awards

 * 2005: Walker McKinney ’50 Life Sciences Fellowship, Princeton University
 * 2007: Graduate Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
 * 2008: Departmental Teaching Prize, Psychology Department
 * 2008: Woodrow Wilson School Social Policy Fellowship, Princeton University
 * 2008: University Center for Human Values, Graduate Prize Fellowship, Princeton University
 * 2009: Summer Institute in Social Psychology, Fellowship, Northwestern University
 * 2009: Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara
 * 2009: Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Dissertation Fellowship, Princeton University
 * 2010: Hoffman Scholar, Princeton University Alumni Association, Princeton University
 * 2011: Dissertation Award Finalist, Society for Experimental Social Psychology
 * 2015: Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science
 * 2016: Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
 * 2017: Sage Young Scholar Award, Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology
 * 2017: CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
 * 2019: Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, APS
 * 2019: Fellow, Association for Psychological Science

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Representative publications

 * Cikara, M., Botvinick, M. M., & Fiske, S. T. (2011). Us versus them: Social identity shapes neural responses to intergroup competition and harm. Psychological Science, 22(3), 306-313.
 * Cikara, M., Bruneau, E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Saxe, R. (2014). Their pain gives us pleasure: How intergroup dynamics shape empathic failures and counter-empathic responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 110-125.
 * Cikara, M., Eberhardt, J. L., & Fiske, S. T. (2011). From agents to objects: Sexist attitudes and neural responses to sexualized targets. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(3), 540-551.
 * Cikara, M., & Fiske, S. T. (2012). Stereotypes and schadenfreude: Affective and physiological markers of pleasure at outgroup misfortunes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3(1), 63-71.
 * Cikara, M., & Van Bavel, J. J. (2014). The neuroscience of intergroup relations: An integrative review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(3), 245-274.