Our Team

Associate Professor
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[Pronunciation: “KAL-vin LYE“]

Jennifer is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She has master’s degrees in Psychological and Brain Sciences (Washington University in St. Louis ’22), Applied Positive Psychology (University of Pennsylvania ‘18) and Education (University of Pennsylvania ‘15). Prior to her doctoral program, she worked as a research coordinator at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also a K-8 teacher with Teach for America before graduate school. Her primary research interests include interventions for long-term bias regulation, emotion regulation, intergroup relations, and broader theories of behavior change and maintenance. In her spare time, Jenn enjoys culinary adventures both in her kitchen and at new restaurants.

Grace is a fifth-year graduate student in in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Before coming to Washington University, she earned a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Health and Human Values at Davidson College and worked as a lab manager of the Davidson Intergroup Studies Lab. Her research interests broadly include reducing bias and discrimination, confronting prejudice, and perceptions of allyship. 

Messi is a fifth year graduate student in the Division of Computational & Data Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the intersection of social psychology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), where he examines stereotyping in AI systems. 

Selin is a fourth year graduate student in Psychology at Rutgers University. She graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in Psychology and minors in Statistics and International Relations. Before starting her PhD, she conducted research on achievement motivation, emotion regulation, and social stress. She completed her honors thesis on COVID-19 and intergroup relations between international and domestic college students. She completed the first three years of her PhD at WashU, where she received a Master’s degree in Psychological and Brain Sciences and taught statistical coding in R. She recently transferred to Rutgers University, where she looks forward to continuing her research on stereotypes and prejudice, particularly when it comes to race/ethnicity, nationality, and immigration.

Caelie is a Lab Manager for the Diversity Science Laboratory. She received her B.A. from Vassar college in Classics with a research focus on descriptions of women in Augustan Era poetry. She then worked as a research assistant, studying implicit memory, in Dr. Paul Reber’s laboratory at Northwestern. Recently, she completed her master’s degree from Ball State University in Social Psychology with a focus on gender bias in language. Her research interests broadly include understanding stereotype and prejudice, especially through language analysis and Large Language Models.