Fall 2025 Lab Photo

4/25 Grace Drake successfully defended her PhD dissertation defense! 

4/25 Jenn Beatty successfully defended her PhD dissertation defense! 

4/25 Messi H.J. Lee successfully defended his PhD dissertation defense!

2/25 Jenn Beatty co-chaired the “Contextual Considerations for Confronting Prejudice” Symposium at SPSP 2025 and gave a talk titled “Are You a Defensive Person? Feedback Defensiveness across Domains and Individuals.”

2/25 Calvin Lai gave a talk at the "Psychological Interventions in Policing" Symposium titled "How to Build a Better Police Bias Training" at SPSP 2025. 

2/25 Grace Drake presented her poster titled, "Does an Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism Increase Confronting Behavior?" at SPSP 2025. 

2/25 Selin Toprakkiran presented her poster titled, "Perceived Policy Instability and Immigrant Wellbeing in the U.S." at SPSP 2025. 

2/25 Selin Toprakkiran presented her talk titled, "When Are Beliefs About Groups Shared? A Mega-Study of Stereotype Consensus" at the Attitudes and Social Influence Preconference at SPSP 2025.

2/25 Calvin Lai gave a talk at the “Advancing Police-Community Research in Personality & Social Psychology” Preconference at SPSP 2025.

11/24 Calvin Lai and Joel Le Forestier's paper, "A comparative investigation of interventions to reduce anti-fat prejudice across five implicit measures" was accepted for publication at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 

11/24 Grace Drake's first-author paper with Calvin Lai and Clara Wilkins, "Solidarity imbalances after racism and sexism: Black Americans are expected to express high solidarity but anticipate lower solidarity from racial/ethnic outgroups," was accepted for publication at Social Psychological and Personality Science.

10/24 Messi H.J. Lee received a grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity for his project titled “Homogeneity Bias in Large Language Models.”

9/24 Calvin Lai's paper, "A Contest Study to Reduce Attractiveness-Based Discrimination in Social Judgment", was accepted for publication at Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

6/24 Selin Toprakkiran's first-author paper with Jon Gordils and Jeremy Jamieson, “Can Democrats and Republicans Like Each Other? Depends on How You Define "American"“, was accepted for publication at Frontiers in Social Psychology.

6/24 Selin Toprakkiran co-chaired a symposium called “Ambiguous Stereotypes: Insights Across Diverse Groups and Dimensions” and gave a talk at SPSSI. The talk was titled “A Mega Study of Stereotype Variability”.

4/24 Jenn Beatty received a grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity for her project titled “Measuring Defensiveness about Anti-Black Intergroup Bias.“

4/24 Messi H.J. Lee was accepted for OpenAI's Researcher Access Program to continue his research on bias in Large Language Models. 

3/24 Messi H.J. Lee was awarded the ACM Student Travel Grant to present his research at ACM FAccT 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

3/24 Messi H.J. Lee and Calvin Lai’s submission to ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2024 titled “Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans” was accepted.

2/24 Selin Toprakkiran received a grant from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity for her project titled “Perception of Immigration Policy Instability.”

2/24 Calvin Lai participated in a panel discussion titled “Grant-seeking from Private Foundations: What Investigators Should Know” at SPSP 2024.

2/24 Grace Drake presented her poster titled “An Intervention to Empower People to Confront Sexism” at SPSP 2024.

2/24 Messi H.J. Lee presented his poster titled “Outgroup Homogeneity-like Effect in Large Language Models” at SPSP 2024.

2/24 Jenn Beatty gave a talk at the “Dynamic Intergroup Experiences: Regulatory Perspectives of Perpetrators, Witnesses, and Targets” Symposium titled “A Process Model of Intergroup Bias Regulation” at SPSP 2024. 

2/24 Messi H.J. Lee was awarded the Outstanding Research Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology.

2/24 Ashley Tudder presented her poster titled “A multi-faceted intervention promotes intergroup empathy through granular emotion reflection” at SPSP 2024.

2/24 Maddie Hammer presented her poster titled “Not “Woman” Enough? Exploring Feminist Allyship Through Implicit Race-Gender Associations” at SPSP 2024.

1/24 Messi H.J. Lee and Calvin Lai published a paper in PNAS Nexus titled “America’s racial framework of superiority and Americanness embedded in natural language.”

12/23 Messi H.J. Lee presented his paper titled “The Effect of Group Status on the Variability of Group Representations in LLM-generated Text” at 2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023).

11/23 Messi H.J. Lee was awarded the Graduate Student Conference Travel Award from the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity!

10/23 Jenn Beatty, Grace Drake, & Selin Toprakkiran presented their research at the Innovation in Social and Community Psychology Summit.

6/23 Calvin Lai published a paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin titled “Individual Differences in Implicit Bias Can Be Measured Reliably by Administering the Same Implicit Association Test Multiple Times.”