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Charlotte Tate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on three distinguishable topics: (a) social perception, (b) attitudes, and (c) mental simulation of the past and future. Within the social perception topic, Dr. Tate focuses on how individuals understand themselves and others. Her current work explores how people maintain a felt-sense of gender identity whether they are cisgender, transgender, or genderqueer. Other work in this area explores how people define social categories such as “race” and “sexual orientation” to understand and navigate the social world. Within the attitudes topic, she focuses specifically on prejudice and discrimination toward racial, gender, and sexual orientation groups as well as the factors that support and lessen bias toward these groups, such as comedy and people’s cognitive organizations of social groups. Within the mental simulation topic, she examines the cognitive processes underpinning “mental time travel” into the future and the past. Her current work in this area focuses on how forecasting is related to a variety of phenomena including affect and attitudes.