Principal Investigator
Kurt Hugenberg is the director of the Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Facial Expression Lab at Indiana University. He is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. His research focuses on how perceivers' stereotypes, prejudices, and prejudice-related motives influence how we categorize, perceive, and understand others. For more information, check out his CV or contact him directly at khugenb@indiana.edu.
Graduate Students
Steven Almaraz is a fifth-year graduate student. His research interests focus primarily on how people use perceptual cues to make inferences about the trustworthiness, dominance, sexuality, or mental sophistication of the people around them. Often, his work investigates whether these perceptual inferences are affected by social group membership and can impact real-world intergroup disparities. For more information, check out Steven's CV and personal website here.
Mattea Sim is a second year graduate student working for Dr. Kurt Hugenberg. Her research focuses primarily on how facial characteristics, body size, and racial or ethnic identities can impact the way people are evaluated and treated. For more information, check out Mattea's CV.
Affiliated Graduate Students
Mansi Joshi is a second year graduate student working for Dr. Amanda Diekman. Her general research interests are centered around gender and racial issues in education. Her research focuses primarily on how how face-based traits of real and hypothetical scientists signal different opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She is also interested in cultural similarities and differences between life and physical science majors in how they navigate their role in STEM. For more information, check out Mansi's CV.
Kathleen Stanko
Research Assistants
Alicia Macchione is an undergraduate senior majoring in Psychology and Gender Studies. Her research interests are centered around understanding the development and implications of stereotypic attitudes and biases in certain contexts. She is interested in understanding the minority experience--in particular the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and race, and its implications for identity development and educational attainment. After graduation, Alicia will be starting a doctorate program at The University of Southern Mississippi. For more information, check out Alicia's CV.
Apoorva Sarmal is a research assistant interested in studying the underlying mechanisms of stereotyping and prejudice. Specifically, she is interested in why people of color are dehumanized and how this affects minority experiences in the real world. She is also interested in investigating how cultural assimilation affects people of color and how cultural assimilated individuals are perceived. For more information, check out Apoorva's CV.
Julia Henry is an undergraduate senior majoring in Psychology, with an interest in clincal work. Broadly, she is interested in understanding how drugs affect an individual's brain/body, in addition to exploring the effect of one's childhood upbringing on their later development. Julia is also interested in further exploring topics such as depression and other mental illnesses.
Alexa Sucharetza is an undergraduate junior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Sociology, with an interest in the physiological, psychological, and physical effects of residual racial trauma on people of color living in present day. She hopes to pursue research involving Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTTS) in the future and focus on the issues stemming from racism as well as colorism. She also hopes to focus on the importance of intersectionality in psychological studies.
Daphne Castro Lingl is an undergraduate junior majoring in Psychology. Her research interests are centered around stereotypical attitudes and biases towards multiracials. More specifically, she is interested in the mechanisms underlying the out-grouping of multiracials by both majority and minority populations, and its implications. She hopes to study social psychology in graduate school with a research focus on multiracial identity threat, emphasizing the intersectionality of identity.
Max Bublick
Lab Alumni
Jason Deska is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto working with Dr. Nick Rule. He investigates questions related to social perception and cognition to inform our understanding of how and when people are subjected to differential judgment and treatment. For more information, check out Jason's website or contact him directly at jason.deska@utoronto.ca.
Paige Lloyd is an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver. Her work investigates the determinants and consequences of person perception, with an emphasis on implications for social inequality and discrimination. For more information, check out Paige's website or contact her directly at paige.lloyd@du.edu.
Don Sacco is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests fall into three major categories: 1) causes and consequences of social inclusion and exclusion, 2) face perception and nonverbal behavior, and 3) how personality and motivation influence cognition and perception. For more information, check out Don's website or contact him directly at donald.sacco@usm.edu.
Pirita See is an Assistant Professor at South Dakota State University. She specializes in group-based biases involved in person perception (e.g., intergroup face processing, stereotyping, dehumanization, pro-social intentions). For more information, check our Pirita's website or contact her directly at pirita.see@sdstate.edu.
John Paul Wilson is an Assistant Professor at Montclair State University. He is currently focused on how person perception can inform our thinking about social issues and the criminal justice system. For more information, check out John's website or contact him directly at wilsonjoh@montclair.edu.
Ed Shriver is a Lecturer at Emmanuel College. He specializes in prejudice, intergroup relations, and social justice. For more information, contact him directly at edwin.shriver@gmail.com.