Principal Investigator
Cheryl R. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Cheryl Kaiser’s research explores psychological aspects of prejudice, stereotypes, identity, and diversity, and the intersection of these topics with law, politics, and policy. Current projects explore how well-intentioned organizational diversity initiatives create unintended consequences, including the perpetuation of discrimination, minority stress, reactance among majority groups, and the miscarriage of civil rights laws. She also explores how prototypes of women obscure perceptions of sexual harassment, to the detriment of victims of harassment, organizations, and civil rights laws. Cheryl’s research been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Cheryl is a recipient of the SAGE Young Scholars Award, the James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Award, and SPSSI’s Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.
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Ella Lombard
Ella is a 5th year Ph.D. student and received her BA in Psychology and English with honors from Northwestern University. Her research interests broadly encompass investigating stereotypes and prejudice in the context of gender, race, and sexual orientation with a focus on ameliorating inequality and improving well-being for members of marginalized groups. She is particularly interested in exploring how workplaces and schools can become more equitable environments.
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Z. Ferguson, M.S.
I'm a 4th year Ph.D. candidate and received my B.A. in Cognitive Science, with a minor in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. I'm interested in studying how intersectional identities impact our lives, as well as how biases are created and maintained in larger systems (e.g., education, legal contexts). My current projects focus on bias against sexual harassment victims (cognitively and legally), racial/ethnic differences in the perception of history, and prototypes of nonbinary individuals.
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Rebecca Schachtman, M.S.
Rebecca is a 4th year Ph.D. student and received her BA in psychology with honors from Lawrence University. Her research investigates how stereotypes create and reinforce biases in responses to sexual harassment. She is especially interested in bystander intervention and how sexual harassment trainings can be designed to disrupt biases.
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MJ Schneider
MJ is a 1st year Ph.D. student and received their BA in Psychology, with honors from the University of San Francisco. MJ is interested in how people change through major life transitions (i.e. incarceration, grief, gender transitions, new relationships, etc) and what is central to self-concept. They approach this question theoretically, and in applied research with under-represented groups, particularly carceral systems, and trans and queer communities. Their past research has examined mental simulation and memory using natural language processing and neuroimaging techniques.
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Research Assistants
Arshia Batra
Autumn Yi
Chenqi Zhu
Emmalee Altergott
Jia Cao (honors student)
Graduate & Postdoctoral Alumni
Bryn Bandt-Law (Ph.D. 2023) | Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University
Jessica Glazier (Ph.D. 2022) | Postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University
Adam Smiley (Ph.D. 2022) | Assistant Professor at Belmont University
Jonathan Gallegos (Postdoc 2019-2021) | Research Scientist at Altria
Eric M. Gomez (Ph.D. 2020) | User Experience Researcher at Google
Jin X. Goh (Postdoc 2017-2019) | Assistant professor at Colby College
Arianne E. Eason (Ph.D. 2018) | Assistant professor at UC Berkeley
Daniel Kort (M.S. 2016) | Product manager at SpanishDict
Sara Hagá (Postdoc 2013-2015) | Postdoctoral researcher at University of Lisbon
Teri Kirby (Ph.D. 2015) | Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Kerry Spalding (Ph.D. 2015) | Senior user experience researcher at Google
Ben Drury (Ph.D. 2013) | Staff user experience researcher at Google
Lori Wu Malahy (Ph.D. 2012) | UX research manager at Instagram
Clara Wilkins (Ph.D. 2011) | Associate Professor at University of Washington
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