Our Team

Associate Professor
calvin.lai@rutgers.edu | CV | Google Scholar
[Pronunciation: “KAL-vin LYE“]

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.

Salma is a third-year undergraduate at Rutgers University, double majoring in Psychology and Criminal Justice with a minor in Health and Society. Her research interests include mental health training in police, the effectiveness of psychological testing in criminal procedures, and bias in the workplace. 

Ny-Aziah is a second-year undergraduate student at Rutgers University, majoring in Forensic Chemistry with a minor in Biological Sciences. She hopes to attend medical school to become a forensic pathologist. Her research interests involve studying the psychological and societal factors behind criminal behavior and investigating how biases influence the process of solving cases.