Join us as BASP Students share the results from their First Doctoral Exam research projects!

Jaclyn Doherty: Preferences, predictors, and outcomes of interfaith dating relationships.

Grace Flores-Robles: What's love got to do with it? Understanding unique barriers in care workers' labor organizing.

Andre Oliver: Black + White = stereotypically Black: Visualizing mental representations of Black-White Biracial people.

Join us for our Spring Showcase!

Current BASP students are invited to share new data, introduce new theories, or provide broad updates on ongoing projects!

Talk Title: The structure of regional intergroup bias

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Eric Hehman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at McGill University and director of the Seeing Human Lab. Generally, Dr. Hehman’s research examines how individuals perceive and evaluate one another across group boundaries (e.g., race, gender, sexual-orientation, occupation, etc). To address these questions, he takes a multi-method approach, incorporating a broad range of behavioral (e.g., computer-mouse tracking, digital face modeling, group interactions) and statistical techniques (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, machine learning). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware working with Sam Gaertner, and worked as a post-doctoral scholar with Jon Freeman at Dartmouth College and New York University. He was an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto for three years before transitioning to McGill.

Talk Title: Measurement schmeasurement: Questionable measurement practices and how to avoid them

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Jess Flake received a BS in Psychology from Northern Kentucky University in 2010, an MA in Quantitative Psychology from James Madison University in 2012, and a PhD in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment from the University of Connecticut in 2015. From 2015 to 2018 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in quantitative psychology at York University and educational psychology at the University of Virginia. In 2018 she started her lab in the Quantitative Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at McGill University. JK Flake is also the Assistant Director for Methods at the Psychological Science Accelerator, and a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Enrollment Management Association. Her research interests include the development and application of latent variable models for use in educational and social psychological research and the improvement of measurement practices in psychology more broadly. When she isn't estimating variances, she is a casual powerlifter and chef.

Talk Title: Understanding stereotype threat: Vulnerability, consequences, and belief

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Gabriel Camacho is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He received his B.A. (2012) in Psychology from the University of Virginia and his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) from the University of Connecticut. He joined John Jay in 2020. His research interest centers on examining ethnic inequality from both the perpetrators’ and targets’ perspectives in order to obtain a better understanding of the causes and consequences of these disparities and of the lived experiences of stigmatized minority populations. He has pursued this research interest primarily by examining novel ways in which perceptions and experiences of stereotype threat—the risk of confirming a negative stereotype about one’s social group—contributes to inequality in academic achievement.

Talk Title: Managing emotions in the face of discrimination: Implications for individual and group outcomes

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Dorainne Green was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University from 2016-2018. Following her fellowship with CRRES, she accepted a position as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University in 2016. Her research explores the pathways through which stigma-related stressors contribute to disparities in education and health between socially advantaged and socially disadvantaged individuals. A primary interest is the identification of strategies to help stigmatized individuals manage the challenges of navigating diverse spaces, including those with the potential to expose them to stigma-related stressors.

Talk Title: Understanding implicit bias: Experimental evaluation of an online implicit bias education program

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Kate Ratliff is the director of the Attitudes and Social Cognition (ASC) Lab at the University of Florida and the executive director of Project Implicit, a non-profit with the goal to educate the public about implicit biases, to develop methodological tools to measure implicit bias, and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.

*** This event has been rescheduled to later in the semester! ***

Join us for a writer’s workshop!

Welcome back for the Spring 2021 semester!

Join us as BASP Students share the results from their First Doctoral Exam research projects!

Alison Goldberg: “He said, she said”: The effect of perspective on perception of ambiguously consensual encounters.

Jackie Katzman: Evidence-based suspicion: Evidence strength affects officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.

Melanie Fessinger: From whose perspective? Differences between actors and observers in determining the voluntariness of guilty pleas.

Ryan Tracy: Would he really do that? Face–behavior congruence moderates spontaneous inferences.

** Update: this event has been canceled. Join us December 2nd for student First Doctoral Exam presentations! **

The BASP writing workshop will be led by Justin Storbeck.

Talk Title: Fitting in to move forward: Understanding gender disparities in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM)

Professor

Bio: Dr. Tiffany Ito completed her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. Her research addresses social psychological issues using a multi-level approach that integrates social psychological and neuroscience perspectives. Topics of interest include prejudice, stereotyping, attitudes, emotion, and face perception. Recent projects have used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure affective and cognitive processes associated with person perception, including early social categorization processes and mechanisms by which prejudice and stereotype activation are detected and inhibited.

To learn more about our program and how to apply, please register for the Zoom link at: https://tinyurl.com/BASPOH

Talk Title: Media Matters: Exploring the unique benefits of video interventions for promoting diversity in STEM

Assistant Professor

Bio: Dr. Eva Pietri is the Principal Investigator of the Pietri Social Intervention & Attitudes lab and an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the Ohio State University. After receiving her PhD., Dr. Pietri completed a postdoctoral position at Yale University, during which she worked in the Psychology department and in the Center for Scientific Teaching. Dr. Pietri is motivated in her research on the importance of role models with intersectional identities. Although she did not pursue a career in the arts (her mother was an artist and her father was a poet and part of Nuyorican Poetry movement), her upbringing has fueled her interest in using art and media as diversity interventions. Lastly, Dr. Pietri is a big (and sometimes zealous) Ohio State football fan.

Talk Title: Mental Pain

Associate Professor

Bio: Dr. Barry Cohen is a research affiliate in the Steinhardt school, and, along with Joshua Aronson, he directs the Mindful Education Lab. Recently, he retired as a clinical associate professor, and had been director of NYU's GSAS M.A. program in psychology for more than a decade. He has taught statistics and research design at the graduate level for more than 25 years, and is the author of three statistics text books currently in print. He received a B.S. in physics from Stony Brook University, an M.A. in general psychology from Queens College, and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from NYU. He completed two years of post-doctoral research under the guidance of Richard Davidson at Purchase College in New York. His current research is focused in two main areas: the subjective and neural correlates of inner speech; and the cognitive, affective, and physiological changes produced by the regular practice of meditation and related mental exercises.

Talk Title: Natural language processing basics in R (workshop)

Bio: Will is a social psychologist interested in how digital social environments shape human emotions, morality and politics. His research includes multiple methodologies such as behavioral experiments, social media analytics, and language processing. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University. Currently, he is a NSF postdoctoral fellow in the psychology department at Yale University.

Talk Title: Data, policy, and performance innovation

Director, Sorensen Impact Center

Bio: Dr. Jon Zadra is a Director at the Sorenson Impact Center over Data, Policy, and Performance Innovation, where he works with non-profit and government clients to design rigorous evaluations and build quantitative models for complex social data. Before joining the Sorenson team, he was most recently an adjunct professor with the University of Utah Department of Psychology as well as Future Generations Graduate School where, among other things, he taught quantitative methods courses. Prior to this he completed postdoctoral research in Australia at Curtin University and University of Queensland. Jon completed Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s at San Diego State University. His research focused on visual perception and bioenergetic aspects of cognitive neuroscience. While in graduate school, he was also a volunteer EMT and captain at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad, one of the busiest all-volunteer squads in the nation, and is now a member of the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team.