Florette Cohen

Florette Cohen (Psychology) is receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student for for Death Salience and Patriotism and Modern Anti-Semitism: The Link Between Terror Management Theory, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Sentiments. Ms. Cohen, only in her third year of graduate studies in Psychology, has five publications in refereed journals, two more under review, and two invited book chapters. Her research shows that people who are reminded of their own death respond by reaffirming their core values and beliefs, making their expressions of these more intense or more extreme. She applies this to the case of anti-Semitism, which seems to be aroused by major social disruptions in which death is often the most salient factor. Ms. Cohen’s adviser is Lee Jussim.