Last day @spspnews.bsky.social! Jalen presented his thesis on flexible thinking in kids, Mariam discussed identity denial attributions, Tose showed Black immigrant socializations, & @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social highlighted how context (Hawaii vs mainland) shifts identity denial outcomes! #spsp2026
02.03.2026 15:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Day 2 @spspnews.bsky.social! A fun lab breakfast, Hannah presented on gesture and social interactions, Esha discussed gesture and word learning in kids, and @kirbylam.bsky.social highlighted masculinity norm violations! So much science! #spsp2026
28.02.2026 22:42 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A belated Day post here @spspnews.bsky.social! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Mariam presented at preconferences their work on racial ambiguity and kid’s generalizations, and Julia presented her poster on random college roommates and flexible thinking outcomes! #spsp2026
28.02.2026 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Honored to accept the Ambady Mentoring Award @spspnews.bsky.social on behalf of my advisor Sam Sommers who passed away last year.
Sam built communities grounded in inclusion. A reminder that mentoring and expanding who belongs in our field isn’t secondary to our work. It is the work. #spsp2026
Hooray for diversity science!!
25.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Roses are red,
Data are neat,
Best lab around,
Can’t be beat!!!
Our lab has had a great time on BC plaza @duke-university.bsky.social talking all about the benefits of our peer texting mental health program Duke Line for students! Free hot chocolate was an added bonus while tabling! ☕️❄️
09.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this amazing write up by highschoolers who interviewed me about @dukeidlab.bsky.social!
www.dukevertices.org/blog/underst...
Check out @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social presenting at the Duke Research Cafe! Lots of people connected with his work looking at multiracial identity denial! @duke-university.bsky.social
22.01.2026 23:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We had a great time at the Duke Pre-Health Ivy League’s lab fair talking about our lab and Duke Line which is the anonymous peer mental health texting line we helped develop here @duke-university.bsky.social with Dr. Nancy Zucker!
15.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social at this upcoming event on campus @duke-university.bsky.social!
14.01.2026 01:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New research from the lab!!
31.12.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What’s an amazing holiday gift that not everyone has? A shiny new Masters degree! Big congrats to @kirbylam.bsky.social on passing his Masters thesis defense yesterday!!!
13.12.2025 14:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1New work from the lab!!!! Check it out!!
09.12.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to Avani, our summer highschool intern, who recently gave a talk on her work with Tose looking at Black socialization and identity at a conference at Elon University!
09.12.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big congrats to Mercedes Muñoz — a future professor of psychology at the University of Richmond 🥳
UR and the students there are so lucky to have her! 👏📚✨
New paper! 🚨 We show that demographic forms can shape belonging. Across 4 studies, Latine Americans reported greater identity threat and exclusion when forms separated “race” and “ethnicity” or asked about citizenship—especially around major U.S. elections
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Grateful for our incredible lab team—their curiosity and care drive our science every day. 🧠💫
And heartfelt thanks to the adults, children, and families who make our research possible through their participation and trust. We couldn’t do this work without you. 🍂💛
#Psychology #Research #Gratitude
Some coverage of some of our most recently published work!!!
11.11.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Diner = Happy Science! Hooray for brunch and all of the work that we do! Almost at the end of the semester, so nothing like French toast, eggs, and bacon to keep us fueled!
10.11.2025 15:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More @spspnews.bsky.social happiness for the lab! Congrats to @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social Tose, Mercedes, Hannah, Mariam and our undergrads Julia and Jalen for all having posters accepted!! We hope chilly Chicago is ready for our science!!
06.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Happy howlaween from the Duke ID Lab! We had a great time seeing the Duke Canine Cognition lab’s puppy fashion show! It was “wicked”!!!
31.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More lab alumni news! A big congrats to Dr. Alexandria West, a former postdoc in our lab, who is officially a tenure track professor in management at Dalhousie University!
27.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Woo hoo! Amazing news for our PI!!!
22.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The lab is headed to Chicago officially @spspnews.bsky.social Congrats to Esha and @kirbylam.bsky.social for having their symposia accepted focusing on social intervention outcomes and gender norms! Hopefully good news on posters soon too!
10.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Check out some coverage of our postdoc Esha Naidu's work highlighting the connections and sense of belonging we all feel uniquely at events like concerts! #psychology
www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...
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!
08.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy fall y’all! We are clearly the pick of the patch since our data is looking gourd-geous!
07.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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!
29.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
sites.duke.edu/dukegmhconf2...
