Melanie Langer received a B.S. in Psychology with a focus on Philosophy from Yale University and an M.A. in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University. She is​ currently​ a ​doctoral student in ​Social Psychology​ at New York University. ​She is interested in values, beliefs, and preferences, how ideology motivates positions on particular issues and behaviors​​, and ​the mechanisms by which people’s attachment and resistance to certain attitudes and behaviors​ are altered​.​