(3/31/25) - Congratulations to Sarah Lamer, who has been recognized for her exceptional teaching and mentoring with the Excellence in Teaching Award – Junior Level from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year Award from the University.

(3/27/25) – Check out this interview with Dr. Sarah Lamer exploring gender socialization dynamics. 

(2/21/25) - Congrats to Clara Bunnell for presenting her poster: Survivors and victims: Linguistic agency and political lean in sexual assault at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Denver, CO! 

(2/21/25) - Congrats to Hayley Simpson for presenting her poster: Green is for girls: Interactions between mental images, masculine identity, and environmental attitudes at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Sustainability Preconference in Denver, CO! 

(2/18/25) – Congrats to Gillian Preston who received the Graduate Student Poster Award at the Gender Preconference at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Sustainability Preconference in Denver, CO!  

(2/18/25) – Sarah Lamer gives an invited talk on her NSF-funded work, the Angry Crowd Bias, at the Nonverbal Preconference. 

(2/18/25) – Congratulations to Gorkem Er, Sarah Lamer, Ali Pourramezan Fard, Gillian Preston, Mohammad Mahoor, and Tim Sweeny for receiving the Rosenthal Poster Award for their poster at the Nonverbal Behavior Preconference on a new faceset of AI-generated faces.  

(2/18/25) – Sarah Lamer gave an invited talk on her recently published work exploring gender stereotypes of leadership at SPSP's Gender Preconference!  

(1/22/25) Check out our recent pub in the Psychology of Women Quarterly about the role of nonverbal behavior in socializing gender stereotypes about leadership! 

(11/2/24) - Congrats to Clara Bunnell for presenting her poster: Survivors and victims: Mechanisms of linguistic agency in sexual assault at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists in Memphis, TN! 

(9/23/24) – Congratulations to Darla Bonagura for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis: Survivors as Agents: How Linguistic Agency Impacts Perceptions of Survivors and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault 

(8/1/24)– Congratulations to Myrsine Kostoulas for receiving a Faculty Research Assistantship Fund for the 2024-2025 academic year!  

(7/27/24) – Check out this article on gender stereotypes, highlighting Sarah Lamer’s research! 

(7/1/24) – Sarah Lamer was recognized as Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology!

(6/26/24) – Check out this interview with Sarah Lamer on her work in intergroup relations! 

(5/9/24) Congratulations to Willem Touzel and Hayley Simpson for being recognized with Awards of Excellence for their research presentations at the annual undergraduate research symposia (EUReCA & ASUReS). A second congratulations to Hayley Simpson for being recognized as a Volunteer of Distinction and the Top Psychology Major!

(5/1/24) – Congratulations to Willem Touzel for receiving an Award of Excellence for Undergraduate Research Presentation. 

(5/1/24) - Congrats to Clara Bunnell for receiving an Advanced Undergraduate Research Assistantship (AURA) for this summer! This funding will help her begin her thesis project!  

(5/1/24) – Sarah Lamer gives an invited talk on cultural socialization mechanisms at the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School.  

 (4/30/24) Congratulations to Clara Bunnell for being awarded a position in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Activity (AURA) program for Summer 2024!

(4/23/24) - Congrats to Hayley Simpson for winning an award for her talk titled Green is for girls: Interactions between masculine identity and environmental behavior at the Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium! 

(4/23/24) - Congrats to Emmanuel Brock for presenting his poster The benefits of large AI sets for facial perception studies at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/23/24) - Congrats to Clara Bunnell for presenting her work Survivors and victims: Mechanisms of linguistic agency in sexual assault at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement!

(4/23/24) - Congrats to Brandon De La Cruz for presenting his poster Emotional biases: How people attribute emotions to transgender women and men at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/15/24) Welcome Megan Ruskey, our incoming PhD student, to the lab!

(2/8/24) - Congrats to Gillian Preston for her poster acceptance titled I feel what you feel, but only if we look the same: How children’s use of racial categorization predicts their empathy towards peer emotions at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, CA! 

 (2/2/24) Congratulations to PI, Sarah Lamer, for being recognized as an APS Rising Star!

(11/4/23) - Congrats to Brandon De La Cruz for presenting his poster Emotional biases: How people attribute emotions to transgender women and men at the annual meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists in Charlotte, NC! 

(9/15/2023) - Congrats to Emmanuel Brock for presenting his poster The benefits of large AI sets for facial perception studies at the annual Discovery Day Undergraduate Exhibit! 

(9/15/2023) - Congrats to Clara Bunnell for presenting her poster Survivors and victims: Mechanisms of linguistic agency in sexual assault at the annual Discovery Day Undergraduate Exhibit! 

(8/1/23) – Congratulations to Brandon De La Cruz for receiving an Undergraduate Research Travel Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. 

(7/1/23) – Congratulations to Darla Bonagura for receiving a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 

(5/26/23) Congratulations to Darla Bonagura for successfully proposing her Masters, titled: Survivors as Objects: How Media Coverage of Sexual Assault Impacts Perceptions of Survivors and Perpetrators and for being selected for the Graduate Diversity Advocacy Award in the Experimental Psychology program! 

(5/10/23) – Darla Bonagura received the Graduate Student Diversity Advocacy Award this year at the Department of Psychology’s Spring Celebration 

(5/1/23) – Congratulations to Clara Bunnell on receiving an Advanced Undergraduate Research Assistantship for the Summer! This work will help her explore linguistic patterns in news media about sexual assault.  

(5/1/23) - Congrats to Emmanuel Brock for receiving a Faculty Research Assistantship Fund for this summer! 

(5/1/23) – Sarah Lamer has been selected as the Social Sciences Faculty Research Mentor of the Year by the Undergraduate Research Office! Congratulations! 

(4/25/2023) - Congrats to Hayley Simpson for winning an award for her poster Green is for girls: Interactions between masculine identity and environmental behavior at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/25/2023) - Congrats to Gigi Petrella for winning an award for her poster Stoic savages?: Media oversimplification of Native American emotions at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/25/2023)- Congrats to Sarah Lerner for winning an award for her poster Changing the channel: The impact of television on children’s racial biases in emotion perception at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/25/2023) - Congrats to Kaitlyn Kilburn for presenting her poster Anger bias in crowds using visually complex stimuli at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(4/25/2023) - Congrats to Brandon De La Cruz for presenting his poster Emotional biases: How people attribute emotions to transgender women and men at the annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement! 

(2/24/2023) - Congrats to Gigi Petrella for presenting her poster Stoic Savages?: Analysis of Televised Depictions of Native American Emotions at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta, GA! 

(2/23/2023) - Congrats to Gillian Preston for presenting her poster (Don’t) Be Confident: How Racialized-Gender Stereotypes of Agency are Modelled for Children at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Atlanta, GA! 

(1/15/23) – Congratulations to Clara Bunnell for receiving a Departmental Research Assistantship for the Spring semester. She will be contributing to a project on leadership stereotypes about women.  

(1/15/23) – Congratulations to Kaitlyn Kilburn for receiving a Faculty Research Assistantship Fund Award! She will be helping with a project on emotion perception in crowds. 

(1/15/23) - Congrats to Hayley Simpson for receiving an Advanced Undergraduate Research Assistantship for this spring semester! 

(8/15/22) – Congratulations to Brandon De La Cruz for receiving a Faculty Research Assistantship Fund Award! He will be helping with a project on emotion perception and negativity biases.  

(7/1/22) – Congratulations to Sarah Lamer on her recently published work testing how children learn gender stereotypes from a pattern in television! You can also read about this work in her blog post for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology’s Character and Context blog

(6/9/22) - Congrats to Gigi Petrella for receiving an Advanced Undergraduate Research Assistantship for this summer! 

(6/9/22) - Congrats to Anna Klaes for receiving a Faculty Research Assistantship Fund for this summer! 

(6/1/22) Congratulations to PI, Sarah Lamer, for her recent National Science Foundation Social Psychology grant to explore biases in the perception of a crowd's emotion. 

(4/1/22) – Congratulations to Haley Beck for their grants from the Research for Indigenous Social Equity and Action Center (RISE) and the University of Tennessee to study media representations of Indigenous people and their influence on beliefs.

(2/19/2022) - Congrats to Gillian Preston for presenting her poster Intersectional stereotype development in childhood: How nonverbal behavior in television can teach racialized-gender stereotypes at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Francisco, CA! 

(1/24/22) - Congrats to Tierrany McNamee for receiving a Departmental Research Assistant Fund for this spring semester! 

(9/1/21) –Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Lamer on her recently published work on anger bias in the evaluation of crowds!

(5/1/21) – Sarah Lamer recognized as Social Science Faculty Research Mentor of the Year 

(4/5/21) – Congratulations to Darla Bonagura for receiving the Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence and joining the SPĀC Lab as an incoming PhD student! 

(3/1/21) – Sarah Lamer is recognized with the Disability Services Champion Award 

(3/1/21) – Congratulations to Haley Beck for their Honorable Mention on the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship! 

(6/16/20) – Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Lamer on her recently published work on the function of vertical and horizontal space to social group identity!

(5/1/20) – A congratulations and welcome are in order for Haley Beck; they were awarded the top graduate fellowship for incoming students at the University of Tennessee, the Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence!