Dayoung Oh
My name is Dayoung Oh, and I am a second-year Psychology student. My biggest research interest is the concept of interpersonal relationships. I have always been fascinated by the human relationship and the strong impacts that it has in one’s life. I have always been intrigued by the fact that social relationships can be both […]
Cherry Chun
Cherry is a 3rd year Neuroscience student at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests revolve around brain structure & function and how this affects our behaviour (and vice versa!). She is currently a research assistant with the Social Identity Lab.
Sunny Wang
Sunny is a fourth-year undergrad student majoring in psychology. His research interests include social/personality psychology, psychopathology, and studying fandoms. He is currently an RA in the Social Identity Lab and also a DS student working with Carmelle, investigating people’s willingness to take accountability for their race- and gender-based biases and recall of biased incidents.
Myra Jain
Myra is a fourth-year Psychology Honours student at the University of British Columbia and a research assistant in the Social Identity Lab. She’s working on the Learning Affordances project, which investigates how teachers’ and parents’ gender essentialism beliefs shape gender-differentiated learning opportunities for children. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social, cultural, and […]
Yingchi Guo
Yingchi (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Social Identity Lab and the Rights Lab. She received her B.S. from Sun Yat-sen University (China) and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research in the Social Identity Lab focuses on how social identities shape individuals’ sense of self-environment fit and […]
Miranda Kahlert
Miranda is a Directed Studies student working with Carmelle. She is VP Academics for the Psychology Students’ Association (PSA) and has a minor in philosophy. Miranda is interested in political/moral psychology research, particularly in the implicit philosophical beliefs that may set the foundation for how people construct their own worldview (e.g. how they picture history, how […]
Catherine Xie
Catherine Xie is a fourth-year Psychology student working on the Learning Affordance project, which investigates how teachers’ and parents’ gender essentialism beliefs shape gender-differentiated learning opportunities for children.
Lucie Escasain
Lucie Escasain is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in the Social Identity Lab. She works on an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada entitled “Does Gender Essentialism Lead to Biased Learning Affordances that Limit Children’s Interests?”, examining the degree to which gender differences […]
Bryanna Balsara
Bryanna is a 5th year student and an RA in the Social Identity Lab. She’s been helping graduate student, Yingchi Guo, on her project on belonging. In their recent project, they’re investigating the effects of gender on belonging and how this can affect outcome variables like academic performance, in the context of the SAFE model. […]
Zerevan Bindal
Zerevan is a graduate student in the Social/Personality area of the UBC Psychology Department. He received his B.Sc. in Psychology in 2024 and gathered research experience in Germany (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau), Ireland (University of Limerick), Canada (Dalhousie University) and France (Université Clermont-Auvergne) before coming to Vancouver. His primary research interest lies in understanding gendered aspects […]