Lab Members

Alyssa Croft, Ph.D.

Alyssa Croft, Ph.D.

alyssac@email.arizona.edu https://psychology.arizona.edu/users/alyssa-croft Alyssa is an Assistant professor at the University of Arizona. Alyssa earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UBC in 2016, her M.A. from UBC in Social Psychology in 2011, and her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Arizona in 2008. Alyssa’s research examines topics relating to social roles, identity and group […]

Kate Block, Ph.D.

Kate Block, Ph.D.

k.a.e.block@uva.nl https://katharinablock.wordpress.com Kate Block is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Kate received her Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology from UBC in 2020, her M.A. in Social-Personality Psychology from UBC in 2015 and her B.A. in Psychology (with Honors) from UBC in 2013. She is interested in how stereotypes […]

Rachel Karat

Rachel Karat

Rachel Karat is a 5th year Honours Psychology student and the current lab manager for the Social Identity Lab. Her research interests focus the cognitive and emotional aspects of how women cope with gender discrimination. silab_admin@psych.ubc.ca

Christa Nater, Ph.D.

Christa Nater, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow cnater@psych.ubc.ca Christa Nater received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Toni Schmader’s Social Identity Lab in the Department of Psychology. Her research focuses on understanding mechanisms that contribute to persisting social inequalities, in particular stereotyping processes, gender biases in work […]

Yingchi Guo, B.A.

Graduate Student

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, B.A.

Carmelle Bareket-Shavit, B.A.

Graduate Student Email: carmelle.bareket.shavit@ubc.ca Carmelle (she/her) is a graduate student in the Social Identity Lab. She received her B.S. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and was a lab manager at Stanford University before joining the program at UBC in 2021. Her research focuses on the psychological experience of harm from biased behaviors, especially […]

Audrey Aday, M.A.

Audrey Aday, M.A.

Graduate Student aday@psych.ubc.ca Audrey (she/they) is a Ph.D. student in the Social Identity Lab. She received her BA from Cal Poly Pomona in 2016. Their research interests include gender, stereotyping, and essentialism. She’s also interested in the built environment, particularly understanding how digital and physical spaces signal belonging (or a lack thereof) to individuals on […]

Lucy De Souza, M.A.

Lucy De Souza, M.A.

Graduate Student ldesouza@psych.ubc.ca Lucy’s research focuses on understanding inclusive action, mainly describing the broad range of action that people can take in support of people who are marginalized. In this line of work, she investigates the social-psychological factors that may motivate or inhibit people from taking these different forms action. Lucy is also interested in […]

Toni Schmader, Ph.D.

Toni Schmader, Ph.D.

Professor Director of Engineering Success in Stem tschmader@psych.ubc.ca Toni Schmader, is the Director of Engendering Success in STEM, and the Social Identity Laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She has over 25 years of experience and over 100 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and published books. Her research examines how stereotypes and bias constrain […]