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Jeff Sherman, Principal Investigator

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Siuoneh Didarloo, PhD Student
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Siuoneh is a 3rd year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. She received her A.S in Administration of Justice from Pasadena City College,  her B.A. in Child Development (with a minor in psychology) from California State University, Los Angeles and her M.S. in Social Psychology (with a focus in Forensic Psychology) from California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests include: effects of stereotyping and prejudice on memory and perception of others, automatic and controlled components of stereotyping and prejudice, diversity ideologies and attitudes toward ingroup/outgroup members, impression formation and evaluations of ingroup/outgroup members. Currently, she is examining how different categorization processes affect one’s memory, attitudes, and judgments of others. She is initiating a new project that explores the impact of empathy in courtrooms.

 

Sam Klein, PhD Student
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Sam is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University and his M.A. in Social Psychology from the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. Sam utilizes a diverse toolkit of computational models, behavioral paradigms, and data sources to study social judgments through the interplay of context and cognition. He focuses on 1) how contexts shape which information people attend to, 2) the mental processes activated in response to this information, and 3) the judgments that follow.

 

Tommi Mayers, PhD Student
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Tommi is a 2nd year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. She received her B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and her M.A. in Psychological Science from California State University, San Marcos. Some of Tommi’s research interests include: person perception, social categorization, mental representation of stereotypes, intersectionality, and intergroup relations. Currently, she is examining how the distinctiveness of information, whether that be behaviors, traits, or social identity, influences what information perceivers attend to, what information they remember, and in turn how this influences the impressions they form about people.