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My CADA (Conceptual Analysis of Dissertation Area) - "An Intersectional Social Psychological Perspective on Gender- and Race-Based Pain Expectation Biases" - was approved.

I am teaching PSYC 2701 - Topics: The Psychology of Gender as the instructor of record. I designed this course to introduce students to approaches to and understandings of gender from psychological science.

My first authored manuscript, “Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered endorsement of emotional dramatization stereotypes contributes to gender bias in pain expectations” was accepted for publication at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

I attended SISPP (the Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology) at the Ohio State University. I attended the "Harnessing Social Psychology to Understand and Improve Health" course taught by Drs. Lisa Jaremka and John Updegraff and the "Stop Justifying Your Sample Size: Optimizing Studies to Detect Real [Publishable] Effects" workshop led by Drs. Erin Hennes and Sean Lane.

I received the Student Research Award ($1,041) from the University of Denver College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to conduct a line of research assessing whether categorization biases are applied to minimal groups and whether the application of these biases hinges on group characteristics (e.g., status).

Two of my undergraduate mentees - Claire Shaver and Maggie Williams - successfully completed their honors theses. Congrats Claire and Maggie!

I received the Outstanding Teaching Award for my teaching of PSYC 2740 - Social Psychology.

I attended the 95th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. I gave a paper talk entitled "Women exaggerate, men downplay: Gendered expectations of pain experiences." Two of my undergraduate mentees also gave blitz talks... Claire Shaver gave a blitz talk entitled "Effects of Controllability and Language on Stigma Toward Mental Illness." Maggie Williams gave a blitz talk entitled "Assessing racialized mental representations of crack and powder cocaine users."

I attended the 24th annual meeting of the Society for Social and Personality Psychology. I attended the Social Cognition pre-conference and presented a poster entitled "Race is gendered” in mental representations: Cultural stereotype or ingroup-outgroup bias?" Three of my undergraduate mentees presented posters at the main conference... Casandra Pearson presented a poster entitled "Disparities in crowd-directed force behaviors: Examining the effects of crowd racial composition and crowd size on crowd-directed force behaviors." Claire Shaver presented a poster entitled "Effects of Controllability and Language on Stigma Toward Mental Illness." Maggie Williams presented a poster entitled "Assessing racialized mental representations of crack and powder cocaine users."

I taught PSYC 2740 - Social Psychology as the instructor of record. 

My first author manuscript, “Waist-to-hip ratio predicts sexual perception and responses to sexual assault disclosures” was accepted for publication at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

My undergraduate mentee, Abby Langberg, received a Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant ($1,230) from Psi Chi for a project we are collaborating on entitled "The influence of language in mental representations of people who have committed a crime."