Mason D. Burns, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Indianapolis
Department of Psychological Sciences
Current Position
Associate Professor
University of Indianapolis,
Indianapolis, IN
2023 - present
Former Positions
Assistant Professor
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN
2018 - 2023
Visiting Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2017-2018
EDUCATION
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
M.S. Social Psychology
2011-2014
Thesis: Prejudice reduction strategies and their effect on interracial interactions
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
B.A., Psychology
2006-2010
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Ph.D. Social Psychology
2014-2017
Dissertation: How to confront a compliment?: Reactions to confrontations of positive stereotypes
PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2017-2018
Introductory Psychology
Fall, 2017
Spring, 2018
Laboratory in Social Psychology
Fall, 2017
Spring, 2018
Social Psychology and Individual Differences
Summer, 2018
Graduate Teaching Instructor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Elementary Psychology
Spring, 2017
Elementary Psychology
Fall, 2015
Stereotyping and Prejudice (co-instructor)
Spring 2015
Introduction to Social Psychology
Summer, 2014
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Stereotyping and Prejudice
Fall, 2016
Spring, 2015
Social Cognition
Fall, 2016
Introduction to Statistics in Psychology
Spring, 2014
Spring, 2013
Introduction to Social Psychology
Fall, 2013
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
Introduction to Psychology
Fall, 2010
Fall, 2009