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?
Lab News
October 2024 - CONGRATULATIONS to Gretchen for presenting her First Year Project! She gave an amazing talk and we are so proud and excited to see where this work takes her!
October 2024 - Dr. Meyers' paper Hawai’i Face Database: A racially and ethnically diverse set of facial stimuli has been accepted at Self & Identity!
October 2024 - Dr. Meyers' paper A Preliminary Examination of Interpersonal Factors and Psychological Pain as Predictors of Suicidal Behaviors in Multiethnoracial College Students: When Does Being Ethnoracially Diverse Contribute to Greater Suicide Risk? was accepted at Journal of Counseling Psychology!
September 2024 - We welcomed our new PhD Student! Check out Izzy's bio on the PEOPLE page!
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!