Shane D. Soboroff

Shane Soboroff received his B.A. from the University of Iowa with a major in Sociology in May 2002, and completed his M.A. in Sociology at the University of Iowa in May 2007.  His dissertation (expected defense, summer 2011) investigates the effects of group size on trust and cohesion in task groups.  Research areas include social psychology, organizations, and work and occupations.  Shane has been a co-author on papers published in Sociological Focus, Advances in Group Processes, Social Structure and Emotion (winner of the book award for recent contribution to the literature from the Emotions Section of the American Sociological Association), and Leadership in Science and Technology. Current collaborative research projects include studies on the effects of gender identity on aptitude test scores, experimental research on how interpersonal awareness affects influence, and how age and gender interact to affect a person’s status in groups (supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Time Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences). 

Shane has taught Sociological Theory, Principles of Social Psychology, and online courses of Introduction to Sociology Principles.  He has been a teaching assistant for Introduction to Sociology, Social Inequality, Principles of Social Psychology, and Quantitative Data Analysis.  In addition, Shane has enjoyed working with many undergraduate researchers in the Center for the Study of Group Processes, and has served the center as Lab Manager, Director of Operations, and Managing Director.  Currently he serves as Managing Editor for the online peer-reviewed journal Current Research in Social Psychology, published by the Center for the Study of Group Processes at the University of Iowa.

Shane is married to Holly Soboroff, a high school journalism and English teacher, and has two children, Charlotte and Henry.