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A Behavior Intervention to Reduce Sexism in College Men

Mentoring At‐Risk Youth in Schools: Can Small Doses Make a Big Change?

A Real-Time Social Norms Intervention to Reduce Male Sexism

Comparing the Accuracy of Personality Judgments by the Self and Knowledgeable Others

How does short-term mentoring impact the lives of at-risk youth in schools? That’s just one of many research topics that Dave Kolar has explored throughout his career. An associate professor of psychological science at the University of Mary Washington, Dr. Kolar has also conducted research on social perception, accuracy in personality judgment and applying psychological principles to environmental behavior.

Dr. Kolar has presented his work at numerous professional conferences, and his research on social perception and mentoring at-risk children has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Personality and Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning. In addition, he is currently the external evaluator on a 5-year, $996,000 National Science Foundation grant. He also served as the assessment and evaluation coordinator on 3-year, $475,000 grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education and co-authored a 3-year, $300,000 grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Kolar earned a Ph.D. (1995) in social and personality psychology from the University of California, Riverside, after receiving an M.A. (1993) in psychology from the University of California, Riverside and a B.A. (1989) in psychology from San Diego State University.

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