2024

10/24: Congratulations to Sam Venezia for giving a talk at the Society for Psychophysiological Research titled Functional neural network dynamics predict status-based trust decisions

9/24: Congratulations to Andrea Wilhelm for for defending her Master’s Thesis: Ascribed status and perceived gender influences trust decisions!

8/14: Richa Gautam and Andrea Wilhelm presented MINERVA Research Initiative funded work at the 2024 Trust and Influence Program Review for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research titled Cross-cultural multilevel examination of power and influence

8/8: Congratulations to Blake Tran and Francesca Tero for presenting their summer research projects at UD’s Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity!

8/2: Congratulations to Maggie Welte for passing her comprehensive exams!

7/23: Congratulations to Richa Gautam for passing her comprehensive exams!

7/2: Congratulations to Giuditta Scalco for defending her Master’s Thesis: white supremacy beliefs predict discrimination but not implicit bias towards perceived Arab/Middle Eastern, Muslim, Men!

5/17: Blake Tran and Lia Schnatz presented posters at the PBS Undergraduate Psychology Poster Day organized by Jas Cloutier

5/13: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the International Graduate School of Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany for a Symposium titled “The Neuroscience of Unconscious Bias”

5/9: Jeni Kubota joins the Editorial Board of Psychological Science

5/1: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the National Children's Hospital in Washington DC for the Center for Neuroscience Research’s “Neuroscience of Decision Making and Bias Seminar Series”

4/22: Congratulations to Megan Colins for defending her Master’s Thesis: Evaluative responses to humans, objects, and artificially intelligent agents!

4/15: Congratulations to Giuditta Scalco and Andrea Wilhelm, who each won a best poster award from the UD InnovatHER Research Showcase 

4/11: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

4/9: Congratulations to Shaina Rosenblum for defending her Master’s Thesis: The impact of interracial contact on memory biases and neural activity during impression of face varying in perceptual- and knowledge-based cues!

3/19: Congratulations to Maggie Welte for defending her Master’s Thesis: Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge!

2/13: IFSN lab is excited to welcome Marissa Spears as an incoming graduate student for Fall 24

2/8: Five of our team members are presenting at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Click here to learn more about Sam Venezia, Richa Gautam, Andrea Wilhelm, Maggie Welte, and Giuditta Scalco posters

2/9: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at the SPSP Social Cognition Preconference

2/9: Congratulations to Sam Venezia for passing his comprehensive exams!

2/6: Giuditta Scalco won runner-up in the SPSP Graduate Student Poster Awards for her poster titled White Supremacy Beliefs Predict Explicit but Not Implicit Biases Towards Perceived Arab/Middle-Eastern Men

1/31: IFSN lab is excited to welcome Melda Sandikci as an incoming graduate student for Fall 24

1/8: Andréa Reynolds joins as the new IFSN lab manager

2023

10/23: Maggie Welte received an SPSP Graduate Registration Stipend

10/12: The IFSN lab is hiring a project coordinator/lab manager! For more info and apply here!!

8/22: Jeni Kubota was on the PsychSessions Podcast discussing how to create better classroom conversations

7/17: Jeni Kubota was elected Chair of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Justice Committee for the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

7/11: Congratulations to Grace Handley for defending her dissertation: Status, group membership, and evaluative judgments: Psychological and biological influences on explicit biases. Grace has also accepted a research position at AnLar!

7/10: Jeni Kubota accepted a position as the Director of DEI for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UD

6/24: Grace Handley and Jeni Kubota will give talks at SPSSI during a symposium: Assessing the consequences of cross-race contact

6/20: Jeni Kubota joins the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports

6/1: Jasmin Cloutier, Jeni Kubota, and Richa Gautam awarded a grant from the Department of Defense under its Minerva Research Initiative titled: Cross-cultural Multilevel Examination of Power and Influence

5/6: Andrea Wilhelm was awarded a spot in Dr. Steve Luck’s and Dr. Emily Kappenman’s ERP Boot Camp: A competitive 10-day camp focused on the fundamentals of ERP research

4/27: Richa Gautam presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Convention on her work on human-AI social cognition and decision-making and Jeni Kubota gave a virtual talk on recommendations for forming a standing Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion Committee at SANS

2/23: Nine of our team members are presenting at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Click here to learn more about Grace Handley, Sam Venezia, Richa Gautam, Andrea Wilhelm, Inshil Addison, Megan Collins, Samwell Cleary, Maggie Welte, and Giuditta Scalco

2/21: Sam Venezia wins UD’s Doctoral Fellowship for Excellence

1/12: Andrea Wilhelm received a travel grant from Psi Chi

1/05: Sam Venezia and Richa Gautam defended their masters

2022

11/29: Jeni Kubota was elected to the Governing Board of the SPARK Society

11/10: Jeni Kubota was elected to the Governing Board of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society as a Director-At-Large

10/15: Jas Cloutier and Jeni Kubota gave talks at SESP as part of the symposium on The Impact of Interracial Contact on Face Perception, Memory, and Social Judgments

10/8: Congratulations to Richa Gautam and Grace Handley for their SPSP travel awards to attend SPSP in Atlanta in 2023

9/1: IFSN Lab welcomes 3 new graduate students: Giuditta Scalco, Samwell Cleary, and Maggie Welte

7/29: Jeni Kubota gave a talk at CogSci as part of the SPARK sponsored symposium on The neuroscience of racial bias

7/1: Congratulations to Denise Barth for defending her dissertation: Investigating neural correlates of impression formation based on novel status antecedents

7/1: Congratulations to Jeni Kubota for getting tenure

6/15: Jeni Kubota named Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

6/14: Congratulations to Tzipporah Dang for defending her dissertation: Learning rates of individuating information paired with faces varying in race

6/1: Stacy Mahiga has been selected as a McNair Scholar

5/29: Richa Gautam presented a poster at APS and Jeni Kubota gave a talk on The neuroscience of racial injustice

5/19: Jeni Kubota featured in the APS Observer

4/15: Melissa Kilmer will join American University to pursue a PhD in Criminal Justice

4/15: Congratulations to Jeni Kubota who was awarded a Senior Ford Fellowship

4/22: Stacy Mahiga and Sara Rocchino have been selected as UD Summer Scholars

 4/22: Congratulations to Richa Gautam who got an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP

4/22: Stacy Mahiga has been selected as a McNair Scholar

3/22: Samwell Cleary wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Neuroscience Research Award

2/22: Shaina Rosenblum wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Plasket Award

2/22: Congratulations to Shaina Rosenblum and Melissa Kilmer for their their graduate school acceptances

2/22: IFSN lab is excited to welcome 3 incoming graduate students for Fall 22, Margaret Welte, Samwell Cleary, and Giuditta Scalco

2/22: Five of our team members presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention. Click here to learn more about Richa Gautam, Tzipporah Dang, Samwell Cleary, Sam Venezia, and Grace Handley who organized a symposium on interracial contact and gave her first SPSP talk

2/22: Congratulations to Jasmin Cloutier, Josh Correll, Paul Quinn, and Grace Handley for their NSF grant to examine the impact interracial contact on social cognition

1/22: Congratulations to Tianyi Li for her Assistant Professor position at Hong Kong University

2021

12/21: Congratulations to Veronika Lerche for her Assistant Professor position at University of Kiel

10/21: Jeni Kubota inducted as an honorary member of Nu Rho Psi

10/21: Jeni Kubota chaired the scientific organizing committee for the New York Academy of Sciences’ conference titled The Science of Racial Justice

10/21: Jeni Kubota gives a talk at the Harvard Women in Psychology's Annual Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS)

10/21: Samwell Cleary presents poster at the Harvard Women in Psychology's Annual Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS)

9/21: Congratulations to Jasmin Cloutier for getting tenure

7/21 Denise Barth gave a conference talk at Networks 2021, Neural network activity reflect men’s preference for high socioeconomic status

5/21: Jeni Kubota’s talk at the at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine discussed in a brief from The National Academies Press: The Science of Implicit Bias: Implications for Law and Policy Proceedings of a Workshop—In Brief

5/21: Jeni Kubota interviewed for The Brains & Behavior Program Presentation on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Panelist interview here

4/21: Jeni Kubota interviewed about her research and science path for The Neuroethics Blog: Investigating Bias

4/21: Gabriella Dagher wins the University of Delaware Psychological and Brain Sciences Neuroscience Research Award

4/21: Samwell Cleary awarded a UD summer scholars fellowship

4/21: Tzipporah Dang awarded the College of Arts and Sciences’ Graduate Student Professional Development Grant

4/21: Article about Jeni Kubota’s talk at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from the PBS department

3/21: Jeni Kubota gives a talk at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. For a hosted virtual workshop titled The Science of Implicit Bias: Implications for Law and Policy. See her talk here

2/21: IFSN lab is excited to welcome 2 incoming graduate students for Fall 21, Megan Collins and Inshil Paik

2/21: Tzipporah Dang wins the UD Dissertation Fellowship Award

2/21: Welcome Eric Splan as a new postdoctoral fellow to the IFSN lab

2/21: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Improving longitudinal coadaptation of multi-human/multi-agent teams in response to internal and external signals

2020

12/20: Gabriella Dagher wins the University of Delaware Harward Munson Fellowship

12/20: Jeni Kubota is selected as a Member of the Diversity Scholars Network, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan

9/20: Richa Gautam gets an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP

9/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a second grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Trust network emergence amongst resource-constrained human-agent teams

9/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program: Computational HAT model of status sensitivity to facilitate team trust and performance under suboptimal conditions

3/20: Richa Gautam is awarded a Unidel Distinguished Graduate Scholars Award

3/20: Jasmin Cloutier and Jeni Kubota awarded a grant from the Army Research Lab for the STRONG program to investigate human and AI teaming

2/20: Jeni Kubota gives a Keynote at the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference: Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusive pedagogy: A social neuroscience perspective

2/20: Jeni Kubota and Jas Cloutier awarded a grant from the Center for the Study of Diversity to fund work on explicit bias