Rani is a Ph.D. student in social psychology working with Drs. Lisa Libby and Dylan Wagner. She uses a social cognitive and social neuroscience approach to study how familiarity affects the way we perceive, think about, and decide to act towards others. Specifically, she is interested in the effects of subjective perspectives on trait and personality characterization of others, and how those characterizations affect decisions we make about other people and our behavior towards them. She studies this in the context of trait transference, experiences of discrimination, and tokenism, using both behavioral (survey data) and neural imaging (fMRI) methods to explore these research questions.