Hanh Annie Vu Wins SPSP Poster Award
Click HERE to view Annie’s Poster Award! Graduate Student Poster Award Winners and Runners-Up … Continue reading →
Estefany Abrego
Post-Doc Kuchynka’s new Frontiers Publication
Two longitudinal studies with students from underrepresented groups investigated the role of active learning interventions in the development of STEM self-efficacy and intentions to pursue STEM in the future. Study 1 longitudinally tracked high school students participating in a four-week … Continue reading →
Rivera & Vu’s Institute for Racial Justice Project
The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice funding research on the function of prejudice in the regulation of collective guilt. This project will investigate if White individuals express implicit and explicit biases to down-regulate collective guilt toward their group’s transgressions … Continue reading →
Chenqi Gao, New RISC Lab PhD Student
The RISC Lab welcomes its newest addition, Chenqi Gao! What Chenqi had to say about her research interests: “I’m interested in studying social categorization, prejudice, and intergroup relations. More specifically, I want to examine how gender stereotypes interact with context … Continue reading →
Kuchynka Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
This project proposes a mentoring model, the Social Proximity of Mentorship (SPM), that centers mentor-mentee relationships between advanced undergraduate near-peer mentors and lower-level undergraduate students. Based on the SPM model, the main objective is to demonstrate the utility of a … Continue reading →
Hanh Annie Vu is the Chair of SPSP’s Student Committee
Congratulations to our graduate student, Hanh Annie Vu, for her new role as the Chair of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Committee 2021-2022! In her role, she is working to create resources and organize events that benefit students … Continue reading →
Annie Vu elected Vice-Chair of SPSP’s Student Committee
Congratulations to our graduate student, Hanh Annie Vu, for being selected as the Vice-Chair for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Committee 2020! In her new role, she is working to create resources and events that benefit … Continue reading →
AAAS features Dr. Rivera’s Congressional Fellowship
“My portfolio in Senator Wyden’s office focuses on technology and bias, such as algorithmic bias,” he says in reference to the development of an algorithm that was part of the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safety Transitioning Every Person … Continue reading →
NSF-Funded STEM Studies: Update
The Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition lab is working on several interrelated studies to identify ways to combat barriers underrepresented minorities (URMs) face in STEM disciplines. Our primary goal is to promote social psychological change among URMs including STEM identity, interest, … Continue reading →
Marina Saad Successfully Defended her Dissertation!
Marina’s dissertation research titled, Exploring the consequences of Relationships with Offenders, examined whether direct personal or professional relationships, or indirect experiences with offenders leads individuals to explicitly and/or implicitly associate self with the group criminal. She also examined under what … Continue reading →