​Rebecca Neel, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator // ​Lab Director
​(she/her)

Dr. Neel received her B.A. in English from Carleton College, took classes in Psychology at Portland State University, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Arizona State University. From 2013-2018 she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She is currently an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Psychology.​
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[email protected]  |  CV

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​Serena Honekin
​Lab Manager
​(she/her)

Serena is a third year undergraduate at University of Toronto, pursuing a psychology research specialist and a sociology major. She is interested in exploring how stigmatization and marginalization affects people in a criminal justice setting.
 
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[email protected]

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​Elia Q. Y. Lam
​Graduate Student
​(they/them)

Elia received their BSc in Psychology from the University of Waterloo and their MA in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto. Elia’s research program tests how perceiver and target perspectives dynamically shape social perception. One line of work applies this lens to interpersonal invisibility: Using multiple methods, they examine when (and from whom) people experience invisibility (e.g., inattention from others), and whether or not these experiences are uniformly negative. A second line of research tests whether malleability beliefs (e.g., growth mindset) vary across targets and perceivers, and how these beliefs may facilitate outcomes such as acculturation and prejudice confrontation.

[email protected] | CV

​Abdullah Marei
​Graduate Student
​(they/them)

Abdullah received their BSc Honours in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are mainly interested in how people's intersecting social identities influence their experience and how they are perceived. They are specifically interested in social invisibility and how people with multiple marginalized identities experience invisibility. Abdullah is also interested in leveraging negative experiences of marginalized groups through intergroup contact, intra-minority interactions and stigma-based solidarity.

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​Colin Li
​Graduate Student
​(he/him)

Colin received his B.A. in Psychology from University at Buffalo, SUNY and his M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Wake Forest University. He is interested in the dynamics of prejudice within the real-world contexts. He’s looking into ways in which prejudice can be reduced and how prejudice and minoritized status affect psychological health and well-being outcomes. Part of his research also focuses on using psychometric techniques to develop valid assessments and advance measurement equity. 

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Louisa You
​Affiliated ​Graduate Student

Louisa received both her HBA in Peace, Conflict, & Justice and her MA in Social Psychology from the University of Toronto. Primarily, Louisa works with Dr. Elizabeth Page-Gould in the Social Psychophysiological Research & Quantitative Methods Lab (SPRQL). Her research program is on intergroup contact, ideological groups, and outgroup perceptions. Louisa’s current work examines how we interact with people who are ideologically different to ourselves and how these interactions affect our group attitudes and emotions.

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​Emily Schwartzman
Affiliated ​Graduate Student

Emily received her BSc Honours in Psychology from McGill University and her MA in Psychology from the University of Toronto. She primarily works with Dr. Nick Rule in the Social Perception & Cognition Lab. Her research examines how membership to marginalized social groups influences social perception at both the target and the perceiver level, with a particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community.

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​Hannah Gans
Affiliated ​Graduate Student

Hannah received their HBA in Psychology from McGill University. Hannah is primarily working with Dr. Alison Chasteen in the Intergroup Relations Lab. Her current lines of research are exploring how ageist attitudes and behaviors are prescribed and manifested towards older adults with intersectional identities and how these older adults are perceived when confronting ageism.

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​CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE AND POST-BACCALAUREATE STUDENTS

NAME
Carrie Gao
Clizia Martini
Joses Ng
Hanqing Yang
Tara Chahine
Toko Michioka
​Jianqi Hou
​Marina Papachristos
Alexandru Garbuz
Eren Gulenoglu
Krisha Khanna

POSITION
ROP299 Student
ROP299 Student
ROP299 Student
ROP299 Student
ROP299 Student
ROP299 Student
PSY405 Student
​PSY405 Student
Work-Study Student
Work-Study Student
Work-Study Student

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ALUMNI

Stella Zhang | Lab Manager; now at University of Toronto

Bethany Lassetter​ | Graduate Student

Joel Le Forestier​ | Affiliated Graduate Student

Jordana Schiralli | Affiliated Graduate Student

Veronica Bergstrom | Affiliated Graduate Student

Stephanie Oliinyk | Lab Manager; now at the University of California, Davis
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Adira Daniel | Lab Manager; now at Western University

Merril Chesser | Post-Bac Research Assistant; now at the ACLU of Iowa

Joshua Gold, Ph.D. | Affiliated Graduate Student; now Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington 

Chloe Huelsnitz | Lab Manager; now at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

​​Austin Simpson, M.A. | Affiliated Graduate Student; now at University of California, Davis
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Jillian Stuart, Ph.D. | Affiliated Graduate Student; now Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Military Institute

Kelsey Thiem, Ph.D. | Affiliated Graduate Student; now Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Ball State University 
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​Ji Xia, M.A. | Affiliated Graduate Student; now at SUNY University at Buffalo

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PAST RESEARCH ASSISTANTS 

Adrienne Jensen
Alexandrea Martin
Allyvia Fogarty
Ambur Hageman
Andrea Heinz
Anna Kraft
Annalise Castro
​​Ashna Nagar
Bernardo Duarte
Bridget Ross
​Brittany Cheng
Chelle Praska
Conor Mittauer
Crystal Terman
Donney Jackson
Elizabeth Chan
Francesca Walton
Gabby Dillman
​Gabrielle Grothe
​​Gustav Lundberg

​Hala Bucheeri
​Jessica Mielenz
​Jingen (Anna) Yan
​Jovana Pajovic 
Justin Dodd
Kayla Karegianes
Lingyu (Albee) Li
​Lok Sang Jeffrey To
​Lucas Baron
Madhuri Belkale
​Mai Kondo
Maryam Fakri
Mckinna Wilts
Mina Jyung
Nora Tucker
Seunggun Lee
Solomon Worlds
​Sooyeon Lee
Taylor Magnuson
​​Qi (Kay) Sun
Xiaotian (Amy) He
Yibo (Eable) Sun
​Yu Han
Yuhao Chen
Zara Teichroew
​Zini He

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PAST LAB GROUP PICTURES​

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PAST CONFERENCE PICTURES

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