Syed Muhammad Omar

Graduate Student

Contact Info

omarsyed@ku.edu

Biography —

Advisor: Dr. Glenn Adams

Research Lab: Cultural Psychology Research Group

I am interested in exploring the role of sociocultural factors play in the different ways people conceptualize and think about proximal, observable, impacts of climate change and the more distal, unobservable, impacts of climate devastation. Further, climate devastation’s disproportionate manifestation (between the Global South and North) is contingent on the historic development of capitalist-imperialism.

Education —

B.S. in Psychology, University of Florida, 2019

M.A. in Psychology, University of Kansas, 2023

Research —

My goals are to explain the identity-oriented motivations of Eurocentric climate activism and develop interventions for an internationalist activism which is historically salient.

Selected Publications —

Adams, G., & Omar, S. M. (in prep). Critical Race Psychology: Confronting Race-evasive Ignorance in Standard Pedagogy of Hegemonic Psychology. Journal of Social Issues.

Osei-Tutu, A., Adams, G., Dzokoto, V., Affram, A. A., Kenin, A., Vural, N., & Omar, S. M. (2022). Conception and experience of well-being in two Ghanaian samples: Implications for Positive Psychology. International Journal of Wellbeing, 12(4), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v12i4.2123

Wilhelm, B. S., Lynne, S. D., Mosley, D. V., Davison, E. M., Omar, S. M., Counts, T. M., & Graber, J. A. (2021). “Binaries do not exist!” measuring gender identity among diverse rural middle-school youth. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000549