SOAR Student Profiles

Pranathi Shankar

Pranathi Shankar

  • SOAR Position: Member; Alumni
  • Major: Psychology
  • Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Jessica Gaby

Current Focus: Can priming information about body odor affect perceptions of competence in a virtual interview?

Project Description

This project is about observing how providing information about someone could impact their perception of the person. We essentially aim to identify if just by suggesting someone has a certain type of body odor, people's perception about them could be impacted in a virtual interview setting.

Why does this topic interest you?

The idea of learning that before we even know a person, we ha