NEWS

2024

We are thrilled to welcome Hazel Tingzhu Chen and Arshiya Aggarwal to our lab as Ph.D. students.

Eleanor Collier has defended her doctoral thesis, and is now Dr. Collier.

2023

Julia Hopkins completed her Masters project on Outgroup Homogeneity and Threat Stereotypes Facilitate Threat Generalization in a Threat Learning Paradigm.

Patrick Schmelzer presented a poster at UCR R'PSYC 2023 on Belief in a Dangerous World and Threat Stereotypes May Facilitate Threat Generalization Across Social Outgroups and won an award in the Social and Personality Category.

Yrian Derreumaux and Jacob Elder successfully defended their theses, and earned their Doctorate degrees!

Liana Willis presented a poster at UCR Undergraduate Research Symposium 2023 on The Power of Exposure? Influence of Intergroup Contact on Threat Perception.

Jacob Elder presented a poster at SANS 2023 on Seeing Myself in My Group: Generalizing from the self-concept to the ingroup via similarity and contrast-based mechanisms.

Julia Hopkins presented a poster at SANS 2023 on People may generalize threat more readily to social outgroup members: Physiological and behavioral insights.

Genesis Garza Morales presented a poster at SANS 2023 on The Role of Linguistic Similarity in Successful Communication.

Jar'Dawn Hopkins presented a poster at WPA 2023 on Outgroup homogeneity facilitates the generalization of threat across racial outgroups.

Arshiya Aggarwal presented a poster at SAS 2023 on Emotional Granularity As A Key To Greater Self-Understanding And Social Connection.

Julia Hopkins presented a poster at SPSP 2023 on Outgroup homogenity facilitates the generalization of threat across racial outgroups.

Eleanor Collier gave a talk at SPSP 2023 on What You Say and How You Say It: Identifying Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Strategies for Helping Listeners Empathize.

Eleanor Collier presented poster at SPSP 2023 on What should you do to feel connected today? Predicting Daily Conversation Outcomes Using Recursive Partitioning.

Jacob Elder presented poster and gave "data blitz" talk at SPSP 2023 on Competition between self-positivity and group assimilation: Mechanisms for assimilating group norms into the self-concept and self-derogating for group norms.

Jacob Elder presented poster at SPSP 2023 on How interconnected social identities shape trait self-beliefs via semantic structure.

Jacob Elder presented poster at SPSP 2023 on How the motivation to evaluate oneself as similar to the group conflicts with the motivation to view oneself positively.

Yrian Derreumaux presented poster at SPSP 2023 on The influence of group norms and affective polarization on ideaology.

Yrian Derreumaux presented poster at SPSP 2023 on Source consistency shapes motivated reasoning of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy.

2022

We are delighted to welcome Jennifer Mosley and Arshiya Aggarwal to our lab!

Congratulations to RA Kimia Shamsian for winning the WPA’s 2022 Robert L. Solso Research Award for outstanding cognitive psychology research!