Karina Schumann, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Chair of the Social Psychology Program, and Director of the Conflict Resolution (CORE) Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD at the University of Waterloo in Canada and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University under the mentorship of Carol Dweck. Her research program focuses on elucidating the psychology that motivates various responses to interpersonal and intergroup conflict, such as apologies, forgiveness, revenge, empathy, and humility. She also seeks to understand how these different responses impact people’s relational and psychological wellbeing.

Karina’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her papers have been published in top peer-reviewed journals in the field, and her work has been featured in mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, USA Today, BBC, Forbes, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press. She was also the consulting expert on Netflix and Ted-Ed productions about apologies.

Karina was born in Canada and grew up near Montreal and Toronto. She currently lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and two children. She enjoys cooking, running and weight training, singing in the shower, all (non-extreme) sports, and sharing new adventures with her family.