Lab Members – Social Perceptions and Intergroup Attitudes Lab

Clara Wilkins | PI and Lab Director

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. (’11) and M.S. (’09) at the University of Washington. She completed her B.A. with honors at Stanford University (’05).

Huanchen Cai | Ph.D. Student

she/her/hers

caih42@uw.edu

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.

Research Assistants

Sonya Robertson | B.A. Psychology

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sonyakr@uw.edu

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.

Namya Gupta| B.S. Psychology

She/her/hers

namyag@uw.edu

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’s identities, beliefs.

Alexei Roberts | B.S. Psychology

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alexei61@uw.edu

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.

Research Lab Alumni

University of Washington

Research Assistants:

Arielle Perreault, Maruhska Rose Rout, Brynn Watson

Graduate Students:

Chad Miller, Phd (’25)

Post Docs:

Marah L. Al-Kire

Washington University in St. Louis

Lab Managers:

Kimia Saadatian (2020-2021): grad student at Stanford
Jackie Lisnek (2018-2020): grad student at UVA

Honors student:

Baitong (Lacey) Li (’20)

Research Assistants:

Aaliyah Allen, Abby Rodler, Amy Frankel, Constanza (Connie) Gonzalez Navarrine, Cristal Thomas, Hannah Singer, Jo Christina, Lacey Li, Zoey Deutsch, Yu Xin Zheng, Corky Ribakoff.

Wesleyan University

Post Docs:

Mingxuan Tan (2016-2017)
Joseph Wellman (2012-2014)

Masters students:

Juliana Manrique, M.A. (’16)
Katherine Schad, M.A. (’14)

Honors students:

Yun Ju “Roxie” Chuang (’17), Tyler Chase Knowles (’16), Caroline Mead (’15), Allison Goldberg (’15), Xi (“Cici”) Liu (’14), Erika Flavin (’14), Alex Hirsch (’13).

Research Assistants:

Sheri Reichelson, Jessica Park, Mikaela Reyes, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Shackney, Lucy DeSouza, Sheri Reichelson, Shelby Arnold, Michaela Swee, Lucianna Pennant, Michael Inkles, Allegra Stout, Paul Silverman, Nellie Triedman, Julia Mark, Ravy Uong, Gideon Levy, Ryan Pruitt, Melanie Dellplain, Andrew Hove, Zachary Dravis, Mariana Quinn-Makwaia, Anqi “Angel” Guo, Britt Duncan.