Diversity & Social Cognition Lab
C2 Lab
We investigate how diversity impact social cognitive processes related to racial attitudes, behaviors, and categorization.
We are one half of the C2 lab at the University of Oregon, co-lead by Dr. Chanel Meyers and Dr. Curtis Phills. We employ a rich set of methodologies that include experience sampling, longitudinal approaches, analyzing nonverbal behaviors, reverse correlation, eye tracking, and mouse tracking paradigms, to test assumptions about intergroup relations across three main areas: racial diversity, race-related norms, and social perception.
Some of the questions were are currently interested in:
How does diversity shape how we talk about race?
What do people think of when they hear the word “diversity”?
Do race-relations operate differently online?
How does race influence emotion perception?
What factors influence how we perceive Multiracial individuals?
We are hiring a Lab Manager to start in October 2024. See ad: https://tinyurl.com/c2labmanager
Lab News
March 2024 - Our paper Impact of Duchenne and nonDuchenne Smiles on Perceived Trustworthiness of Black and White Faces: A Black Perspective was accepted at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General!
March 2024 - Gretchen had a poster accepted for APA 2024 in Seattle! She'll be presenting her work on Ally Confrontions Online!
August 2023 - Our paper Bias contagion across racial group boundaries was accepted at Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!
August 2023 - Our paper Intergroup context moderates the impact of White Americans' identification on racial categorization of ambiguous faces was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin!