Dr. Karina Schumann received her PhD from the University of Waterloo in Canada, then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the psychology department at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. Her primary research goal is to understand the psychological experience of being in conflict with others, with a focus on the predictors and consequences of various responses to conflict (e.g., apologies, empathy, forgiveness, revenge). Much of her work aims to identify the psychological barriers that transgressors and victims face when deciding whether to respond constructively to each other, so that these barriers can be reduced via psychological interventions.