Duke Identity and Diversity Lab

Congrats to Kelly on her first conference poster yesterday at Duke’s Global Mental Health conference! She presented work looking at gender differences in microaggressions and identity denial for Multiracial Asian people she did with @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Hannah!

Happy fall y’all! We are clearly the pick of the patch since our data is looking gourd-geous!

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A double congrats to Jalen, our honors student, for receiving TWO research grants from Duke’s URS office and The Lafitte Foundation! Jalen is testing how multiple identities, especially for biracial and bicultural children, in addition to contact with diversity can shape flexible thinking!

Congrats to Kelly, one of our amazing undergrads working with @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Hannah, on her poster looking at Multiracial Asian identity denial bwing accepted to the Duke Global Mental Health Conference!

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A brand new paper from the lab!!! Check it out! 📖📖

More alumni news! Nick is starting a Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at USC this fall!!

More lab alumni news! Joan just got her white coat as one of the newest class members at @dukemedschool.bsky.social!! 🥼

Happy end of summer to our amazing lab!! So much writing and science, a celebration and planning lunch was needed!! ☀️ Fall semeter here we come!!

Congrats to Tose on receiving a Clara Mayo Award from @spssi.bsky.social to fund her work looking at immigrant socialization practices!!

Congrats to Mercedes on being accepted into the next cohort of Preparing Future Faculty here @duke-university.bsky.social She will be on the job market this fall so keep an eye out!! 🎉

SISSP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology) @spspnews.bsky.social was a big success! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social met so many wonderful people in the field and learned a ton too!

A belated post to show proof we have moved officially into our new lab space at @duke-university.bsky.social while our building on campus is renovated the next two years!! Come visit us!!

Last week we got to celebrate our high school intern Avani with her final summer program presentation at NCSSM! She helped so much in the lab, and is off to start college applications! So look out colleges for Avani!!

The lab took a break from our science to learn all about lemur science at the Duke Lemur Center!!! Happy summer, everyone!

And our summer VIP program is complete! Jalen and Olivia presented their final posters yesterday and got great feedback! We can’t wait to see data collection finish up!

Congrats to Jalen and Olivia on amazing VIP presentations! Jalen discussed kid’s multiple identities and Olivia talked about gesture and social interactions! And of course we had to get ice cream to celebrate after! 🍦🎉

A big lab welcome to Mariam Wahba as our new recruitment coordinator! 👋🏼

A recent grad from UNC Chapel Hill in #psychology she is excited about making connections, working in the community, and making a difference! A fun fact about her is that she loves to paint! 🎨

The lab had a great time @spssi.bsky.social! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social presented new data looking at multiracial Asian identity denial, @kirbylam.bsky.social discussed new masculine norm work, and lab alum @adamstanaland.bsky.social presented his newest work on masculinity too! #spssicon25

It is almost the end of the first summer session in the lab!! ☀️ That means we needed some food to fuel our science! A fun lab lunch to celebrate our new lab space and to remind ourselves how important the work we do is!! #psychology

Tose had a great time presenting at BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at VCU last week! So much amazing feedback on her Black and African socialization work! #psychology

Even more alumni news! Rose, who finished up her Fulbright Fellowship this year, is headed to a Masters program that feeds into Med school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham! We couldn’t be happier!! 🩺

Esha had a great time at the SSEA (Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood) Conference in Charleston, SC this week presenting new work on multiple identity experiences and flexible thinking! #psychology

Even more lab alumni news! Neera Sameda just received her Masters in Educational Leadership from Harvard and is on her way to Vanderbilt for her Ed.D next!!! 🎓

Lab photo at ice cream send off

The lab won’t be the same without Sydney! As our recruitment coordinator she has helped bring so many new families to participate in our science and we are forever thankful! Onward to her PhD now!! A little ice cream send off to say bye!! 👋🏼

More alumni news! Congrats to Tatum who will be starting at Georgetown Law School this fall! Woo hoo!! 🙌

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

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Congrats to Tose for her poster acceptance at the upcoming BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at Virginia Commonwealth University! She will be presenting her newest data measuring racial/ethnic socialization differences for African Americans and Africans! #psychology #diversityscience

Yay for another important chapter out there for the world to read! 📕

Congrats to all of our seniors!!!