Gili Freedman

Biography

Dr. Gili Freedman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at Haverford College and her Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to St. Mary's College of Maryland, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Roanoke College for one year and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dartmouth College for two years. Her research focuses on two lines of inquiry within social psychology: the two-sided nature of social rejection and creating game and narrative interventions to foster social change. Her work on rejection examines how people reject, why they do so, how they are perceived, and what the consequences are for both parties. In her research on interventions, she focuses on creating game and narrative interventions to increase belongingness in the face of rejection and reduce interpersonal biases and their negative effects, with an emphasis on gender biases in the context of science, technology, engineering, and math.