Levi Adelman

Levi Adelman, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the European Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He earned his PhD in social psychology in 2017 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where his dissertation with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta investigated how people respond to criticism of their groups and the role of situational factors like threat play in determining how open or closed people are to receiving critical information about their group. His primary research focus is currently on tolerance, and trying to understand when and how people decide to tolerate beliefs and practices that they disagree with. Specifically, his research is currently investigating principled and prejudiced tolerance and how beliefs that permissiveness to unproblematic actions will lead to bad downstream consequences (slippery slope beliefs) impact people’s willingness to tolerate others. He is also currently working on or has recently published on projects related to group criticism, entitativity and collective responsibility, competitive victimhood and intergroup conflict, just war theory, and conflict resolution.