Lab News

June 2025 - Dr. Meyers, Dr. Phills, Gretchen, Marcus, Izzy, Jaylene, Luke, Samara, and Kyrie will be presenting at SPSSI in Portland!! (That's almost our entire lab!)
March 2025 - Dr. Meyers will give a talk at the SAS Positive Emotion Pre-Conference titled "The impact of race on emotion perception within individuals and crowds"
February 2025 - Luke Herder won the UROP mini grant for his honors thesis!!
February 2025 - Dr. Phills, Gretchen, Marcus, and Jaylene presented posters at SPSP in Denver!
January 2025 - Dr. Meyers, Dr. Phills, and colleagues' chapter A Social Cognitive Approach to Studying Processes Related to Intergroup Bias and Its Implications for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been accepted in The Sage Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion!
January 2025 - Dr. Meyers gave a talk for the UO Linguistics Department Colloquium titled "Race-Conscious Messaging and their Impacts on Bias, Equity, and Inclusion" where she discussed our lab's projects!
January 2025 - CONGRATULATIONS to Marcus and Gretchen for receiving their Masters of Science degrees!
December 2024 - Luke Herder won the Clark Honors College Mentored Research Program (MRP) funding award!
November 2024 - We welcomed our new Lab Manager! Check out Jaylene's bio on the PEOPLE page!
October 2024 - Dr. Meyers' paper Diversity perceptions and neighborhood preferences for visual representations of mixed racial groups has been accepted at Scientific Reports!
October 2024 - CONGRATULATIONS to both Gretchen and Marcus for presenting their First Year Projects! Stay tuned for more updates on their projects!
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!