Sena Koleva, PhD

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I lead a cross-functional product and engineering team, lead our user…

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Publications

  • The Moral Ties That Bind...Even to Outgroups: The Interactive Effect of Moral Identity and the Binding Foundations

    Psychological Science

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  • The moral compass of insecurity: Anxious and avoidant attachment predict moral judgment

    Social Psychological and Personality Science

    Three studies examined associations between relational adult attachment and moral judgment. Study 1 shows that attachment-related anxiety and avoidance are uniquely and differentially related with moral concerns. Relative to low insecurity, higher avoidance was associated with weaker moral concerns about harm and unfairness, whereas higher anxiety was associated with stronger moral concerns about harm, unfairness, and impurity. Study 2 replicates these associations and shows that the…

    Three studies examined associations between relational adult attachment and moral judgment. Study 1 shows that attachment-related anxiety and avoidance are uniquely and differentially related with moral concerns. Relative to low insecurity, higher avoidance was associated with weaker moral concerns about harm and unfairness, whereas higher anxiety was associated with stronger moral concerns about harm, unfairness, and impurity. Study 2 replicates these associations and shows that the effect
    for harm and fairness is mediated by attachment differences in empathic concern, whereas the effect for purity is mediated by disgust sensitivity. Furthermore, using an alternative measure of moral judgment we replicate the negative association between avoidance and harm concerns. Study 3 unpacks fairness judgments into three subcomponents and shows that even at this level avoidance and anxiety show divergent associations. Future directions for empirical examinations of morality and attachment
    are discussed.

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Honors & Awards

  • USC Postdoctoral Association Travel Award

    University of Southern California

  • Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award

    University of California Irvine

    This award is given annually to two graduate students across the entire school for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, and Service.

  • Social Ecology Alumni Award

    University of California Irvine

  • 1st place in National Writing Competition for Best Scientific Blog

    Science20.com

    I received this award for my blog post "The New Science of Love and Attraction".

  • Summa Cum Laude

    CSU San Marcos

    I received this honor for graduating with a GPA of 3.98.

Languages

  • English

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  • Bulgarian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

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