A big congrats to Jalen on successfully defending his honors thesis! His project focuses on what experiences boost flexible thinking outcomes for monocultural and multicultural children! Graduation with honors here he comes!
Check out some new coverage about our Duke Child Studies group and some of the great recruitment events we do such as the upcoming Science Expo!
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Our lab had a great time at the NC Carolina Conference in Cognition! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social gave a talk on racial miscategorization and stereotype misattributions, Mariam gave a poster on children’s generalizations, and Madelyn presented on microaggressions for Multiracial Asian individuals!
As we head into the final month of the term @dukeidlab.bsky.social , our lab took a moment to slow down and reset through yoga 🧘♀️
Science demands focus, curiosity, and resilience. Taking time to center ourselves isn’t stepping away from the work, it’s supporting it!
Come work with us!!!
Congrats to @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social on receiving the Aleane Webb Dissertation fellowship! His dissertation is titled “When we get it wrong: The occurrence and consequences of racially ambiguous misperceptions” and we can’t wait to get more data analysis and data collection going!
Happy spring break, everyone!
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
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
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
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!!
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! ☕️❄️
Check out this amazing write up by highschoolers who interviewed me about @dukeidlab.bsky.social!
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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
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!
Check out @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social at this upcoming event on campus @duke-university.bsky.social!
New research from the lab!!
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!!!
New work from the lab!!!! Check it out!!
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!
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
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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!!!
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!
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!!
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”!!!
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!