Tessa Benson‐Greenwald

Social and Intergroup Psychology Career Development and Diversity Climate Change Communication and Perception Education, Achievement, and Giftedness Work-Family Balance Challenges

Publications

Citations

238

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2017

Research summary

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Tessa Benson-Greenwald studies social and educational psychology, focusing on how psychological experiences shape people's engagement and attitudes in academic and career settings. Her work includes research on reducing psychological threat in college science courses through mindfulness, social exclusion (ostracism) within institutions, and how thinking about time affects academic attitudes. She also examines topics related to career development, diversity, and climate change perception.

Social and intergroup psychologyPsychological threat in STEM educationInstitutional ostracism and social exclusionCareer development and diversityAcademic attitudes and motivation

Publication activity has been variable across the last decade, peaking around 2021-2022 and continuing at a modest, steady pace of a few papers per year more recently.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.6/year recently

Recent publications

Building Courage, Strength, and Knowledge: Mindfulness Training Reduces Psychological Threat and Increases Engagement in College Physics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025
Building Courage, Strength, and Knowledge: Mindfulness Training Reduces Psychological Threat in Introductory Physics Courses
2024
Scaling Up Ostracism: A Theory of Institutional Ostracism
2022
The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Temporal Distancing and Academic Attitudes
OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 2018

Publishes in

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin×3
Political Psychology×1
Advances in experimental social psychology×1
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology×1
Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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