Leen is a third year PhD student in the SPP lab. She joined the lab after completing a B.A. degree in psychology and cognitive science at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and an M.A. degree in psychological science at Ryerson University.
Leen’s main research interests involve investigating marginalized group members’ motivations to engage in collective action that either challenges or maintains the status quo, and their likelihood of engaging in non-normative (vs. normative) forms of collective action. She is also interested in learning how (or if) marginalized group members’ attitudes and behaviours would differ under distinct democratic contexts.
Leen’s other interests include investigating the relationship between physiological stress and perceived discrimination, as well as studying Islamophobia, specifically whether humour is an effective prejudice reduction technique in the context of islamoprejudice. Leen enjoys learning different statistical techniques regarding quantitative and qualitative methods.