Lab News |
May 2023
Congratulations Manal Aboargob for successfully defending her masters thesis! Her masters was titled, Distinction Between Prejudice and Stereotyping for Negative Ingroup Attitudes. Congratulations Manal!
April 2023
We are thrilled to welcome Jayce Owens-Boone as a new graduate student to start in Fall 2023! Jayce will be co-mentored by Dr. Kelly Burke. Welcome Jayce!
March 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Volpert-Esmond for receiving funding from the NSF!
Title: Neurocognitive Mechanisms in the Perception of Race
Award period: 05/01/2023 - 04/30/2026
Amount: $326,105
Description: People in many different areas are interested in the consequences of race perception, including prejudice and discrimination in intergroup interactions, but debate whether attention to race is helpful or harmful in reducing negative race-based interactions (e.g., “color-blind” versus “race-conscious” approaches). To understand the consequences of race perception, it is essential to first consider factors that impact attention to and subsequent construction of race. The current study focuses on early neurocognitive attention to race, and investigates both top-down (e.g., social context) and bottom-up (e.g., phenotypic variation) factors that modulate attention to Black, White, and Latino faces. Results will shed light on how early attention to race shapes race perception, which has downstream implications for interpersonal intergroup behavior, including prejudice and discrimination.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234319
Title: Neurocognitive Mechanisms in the Perception of Race
Award period: 05/01/2023 - 04/30/2026
Amount: $326,105
Description: People in many different areas are interested in the consequences of race perception, including prejudice and discrimination in intergroup interactions, but debate whether attention to race is helpful or harmful in reducing negative race-based interactions (e.g., “color-blind” versus “race-conscious” approaches). To understand the consequences of race perception, it is essential to first consider factors that impact attention to and subsequent construction of race. The current study focuses on early neurocognitive attention to race, and investigates both top-down (e.g., social context) and bottom-up (e.g., phenotypic variation) factors that modulate attention to Black, White, and Latino faces. Results will shed light on how early attention to race shapes race perception, which has downstream implications for interpersonal intergroup behavior, including prejudice and discrimination.
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234319