Social Psychologist + Assistant Professor @UICPsychology studying interventions, norms, media, prejudice, group dynamics, inclusion + equity
Joined June 2014
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UIC Psi Chi & Dr. Josefina Bañales are co-hosting a panel on next Thursday that aims to spotlight undergraduate student leadership in our department, as well as to foster discussion on how to support undergraduate students’ leadership. Sign up link is in our bio! #UICPsychology
Excited to share some community-engaged, qualitative research I've been working on with @azam_laila & @aasim_padela recently published in @socscimed. We reveal a religious minority tax faced by Muslim American physicians in healthcare settings doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023… 1/3
Muslim American physicians demonstrate that they i) shoulder extra labor to uphold their religious identity in the workplace, (ii) express denial about experiences they have had with religious discrimination, (iii) harbor a lot of fear about being targets of religious discrim 2/3
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🚨New paper 🚨 where we examine the historical roots of implicit racial bias, this time in Northern and Western states. We trace implicit bias among white residents to population characteristics during the Great Migration. 🧵journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @bkeithpayne @nicolas_sommet
Thanks for organizing this panel @feadeh!
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Congratulations to @FrankiKung for winning the @NSF
CAREER award for the project “Mechanistic Dehumanization of Asians: Identifying Causes, Consequences, and Countermeasures for a More Inclusive STEM Workforce.
#psychology #Purdue
Proud of my SROP (Summer Research Opportunities Program) student Eunhye Cho for presenting at the Illinois Summer Research Symposium! She presented our study on the effects of TV representations of Asians on anti-Asian attitudes. @UICPsychology @UIC_UG_Research @PsychIllinois
Check out @aifethompson new paper on predictors of anti-Asian policy support
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Our editorial this month links two articles we've published this year that shift the focus of research on racial bias from individual-level biases to the systemic, structural and historic forces that shape them 1/5
go.nature.com/3XGEi6E
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Absolutely 🫶 this paper proposing a sociohistorical model of social prototypes, which argues that to understand the societal prototypes of different groups, we must think about the history, social context, and goals of the dominant group. Social psychologists, don't miss this!!!
'A sociohistorical model of intersectional social category prototypes', a new Perspective by @ryanlei_psych, @efosterhanson & @JinXunGoh
Web: go.nature.com/3n1VZzu
Readcube: rdcu.be/c7MZ2
So glad to have met such a remarkable & inspiring group of scholars through @CASBSStanford inaugural institute on diversity. Thanks @mcmpsych @sylviapperry and @jaricheson for leading the institute and creating a space for us to build a supportive, caring, thoughtful community!
As CASBS's inaugural summer Institute on Diversity draws to a close, we thank participants, invited guests, co-leaders @mcmpsych @sylviapperry @jaricheson, and program director Betsy Rajala for co-creating the kind of enriching intellectual experience the Center is known for 🙌
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UIC's Psychology department is hiring another full-time lecturer for undergraduate courses!
This is the job I have now, and I really enjoy it! Everyone in the department is SUPER wonderful and the students are awesome! Here's a link with more info:
uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careersi…
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Does self-interest drive preferences for how much inequality there should be? If first making a decision behind a veil of ignorance and then outside of it, do people’s choices differ? We tested these questions in a simulated society @bkeithpayne @kurtjgray doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13306
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Check out this new paper by @ambwinst and colleagues on improving undergraduate mentors' cultural awareness!
A just-released study led by IDS Chair @ambwinst finds that scientists who took part in cultural awareness training improved as mentors and were more successful in broaching issues of race and ethnicity with their mentees.
science.org/content/article/…
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Excited to share one of the papers from my dissertation! We examine Black Americans' understanding of ingroup power. Psychological theories about power equate power to dominance - those who have greater control over resources are powerful & those with less lack power. (1/3)
Finally out in EJSP, led by the fabulous Michelle Twali @michellestwali: "Lay theories about collective power in the context of racial oppression"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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What is next for growth mindset of intelligence research? Check out this new paper from @dr_canning and @LimeriLisa to find out!
Excited to share our new review paper with @LimeriLisa in Compass! We encourage an anti-deficit approach to mindset beliefs that shifts the focus away from the individual and towards the institutional, societal, and cultural context that they navigate.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Had my last lab meeting of the semester and I'm so proud of the undergraduate RAs in my lab for putting together incredible research proposals this semester! @UICPsychology undergrads are the best!
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Join UIC Psychology’s Social & Personality Program today at 3pm as we welcome Dr. India Johnson for her talk, “Signaling safety?: Exploring the efficacy of (in)congruent cues among Black women." We will meet in BSB Room 2057. #UIC #UICPsychology
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Our new paper is out today on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in low- and middle-income countries! More info 👇
📢Our article on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in 8 LMICs has been published in @PLOSMedicine .Depression rates increased by 0.29 SD in the 4 months following the pandemic onset, and recovery was not statistically significant in the subsequent period. Check it below🔗⤵️
