Ellen Reinhart

Dr. Reinhart is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business prior to joining MSU. 

Her research centers on how we value people and how people feel valued within the U.S. cultural context. One line of research focuses on the social class disparity in feeling as though one contributes something meaningful to the world by investigating what types of helping actions are perceived as contributions. Some of her other research has focused on how communication leveraging moral values impacts policy support and how experiencing harm from the COVID-19 pandemic shaped views of inequality and advocacy. 

Dr. Reinhart's work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and can be viewed on Google Scholar.