{"id":800,"date":"2019-02-19T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wustl.edu\/spia\/?page_id=800"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:03:16","slug":"lab-members-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/spia\/lab-members-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"\"Clara Wilkins | <\/strong>PI and Lab Director<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Dr. Clara L. Wilkins is a social psychologist and Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Before returning to UW, she served as a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis and Wesleyan University. Dr. Wilkins completed her Ph.D. (\u201911) and M.S. (\u201909) at the University of Washington. She completed her B.A. with honors at\u00a0Stanford University (\u201905).<\/p>\n

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Huanchen Cai | Ph.D. Student<\/strong>\"\"<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Huanchen (pronounced h-woo-an-chen) is a first-year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Clara Wilkins and Dr. Sapna Cheryan. She graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in psychology. She is broadly interested in stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup relations. Some of Huanchen’s past work examined intraminority intergroup relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans and the effect of positive stereotypes about Asian Americans. \u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Sonya Robertson | B.A. Psychology<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sonya is a recent psychology graduate from UW planning on continuing to a graduate program in the same field. She is particularly interested social psychology, especially regarding how identity and social roles manifest in conflict, responsiveness, and maintenance within close relationships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Namya Gupta| B.S. Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Namya is a junior at the University of Washington majoring in Psychology. She is particularly interested in the intersections of gender and religion, and how social and cultural factors shape people\u2019s identities, beliefs.<\/p>\n

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Alexei Roberts | B.S. Psychology<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Alexei is a graduating senior at the University of Washington, Seattle, with a major in Psychology. It is interested in how major events change minorities standing in society, as well as the effect hyper-invisibility trans men and mascs face has on their well being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Research Lab <\/strong>Alumni <\/strong><\/h4>\n

University of Washington<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Research Assistants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arielle Perreault, Maruhska Rose Rout, Brynn Watson<\/p>\n

Graduate Students:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chad Miller<\/a>, Phd (’25)<\/p>\n

Post Docs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marah L. Al-Kire<\/a><\/p>\n

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Washington University in St. Louis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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