معرفی
Razieh Chegeni is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo's Faculty of Psychology, affiliated with the PROMENTA initiative. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bergen (2018–2021) and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Alzahra University (2014–2016), alongside a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from Tehran Azad North University (2010–2014). Her research focuses on polygenic and social predictors of wellbeing, sexual strategies, personality traits (Dark Triad), and addiction-related behaviors, with a particular emphasis on anabolic-androgenic steroids and aggression. She currently uses machine learning to analyze the MoBa dataset for adolescent wellbeing predictors.
Her work has been supported by awards including the Meltzer funding (2019) and the UiB PhD scholarship (2017). Notable contributions include studies on climate anxiety across 32 countries, cross-cultural preferences in physical attractiveness, and meta-analyses on androgen dependence and aggression in steroid users. She has guest-edited a special issue on anabolic steroid use among women and contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed articles.
Teaching roles include coordinating courses in Operational Psychology and leading seminars in Personality Psychology and ReproducibiliTea journal clubs. She has advised student projects on topics like evolutionary psychology and dark triad traits. Her interdisciplinary projects span evolutionary psychology, health psychology, and environmental mental health.
- Key Projects: Climate anxiety studies, genomics of wellbeing, cross-cultural physical attractiveness research, and anabolic steroid addiction mechanisms.
- Awards: Meltzer funding (2019), PSI teaching funding (2024), UiB PhD Scholarship (2017).
- Labs/Teams: PROMENTA initiative, University of Oslo’s Department of Psychology research groups.
