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More alumni news! Nick is starting a Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at USC this fall!!
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More lab alumni news! Joan just got her white coat as one of the newest class members at @DukeMedSchool!! 🥼
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Happy end of summer to our amazing lab!! So much writing and science, a celebration and planning lunch was needed!! ☀️ Fall semeter here we come!!
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Congrats to Tose on receiving a Clara Mayo Award from @SPSSI to fund her work looking at immigrant socialization practices!!
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Congrats to Mercedes on being accepted into the next cohort of Preparing Future Faculty here @DukeU She will be on the job market this fall so keep an eye out!! 🎉
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SISSP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology) @SPSPnews was a big success! @WiswallMohammad met so many wonderful people in the field and learned a ton too!
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A belated post to show proof we have moved officially into our new lab space @DukeU while our building on campus is renovated the next two years!! Come visit us!!
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Last week we got to celebrate our high school intern Avani with her final summer program presentation at NCSSM! She helped so much in the lab, and is off to start college applications! So look out colleges for Avani!!
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The lab took a break from our science to learn all about lemur science at the @DukeLemurCenter Happy summer, everyone!!
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And our summer VIP program @DukePsychNeuro is complete! Jalen and Olivia presented their final posters yesterday and got great feedback! We can’t wait to see data collection finish up!
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Congrats to Jalen and Olivia on amazing VIP presentations! Jalen discussed kid’s multiple identities and Olivia talked about gesture and social interactions! And of course we had to get ice cream to celebrate after! 🍦🎉
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A big lab welcome to @MariamW64263712 (Mariam Wahba) as our new recruitment coordinator! 👋🏼
A recent grad from @UNCPsych she is excited about making connections, working in the community, and making a difference! A fun fact about her is that she loves to paint! 🎨
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The lab had a great time @spssi! Mohammad presented new data looking at multiracial Asian identity denial, @kirby_lam discussed new masculine norm work, and lab alum Adam presented his newest work on masculinity too! #spssicon25
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It is almost the end of the first summer session in the lab!! ☀️ That means we needed some food to fuel our science! A fun lab lunch to celebrate our new lab space and to remind ourselves how important the work we do is!!
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Tose had a great time presenting at BGCP at VCU last week! So much amazing feedback on her Black and African socialization work! #psychology
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Even more alumni news! Rose, who finished up her Fulbright Fellowship this year, is headed to a Masters program that feeds into Med school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham! We couldn’t be happier!! 🩺
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Esha had a great time at the SSEA (Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood) Conference in Charleston, SC this week presenting new work on multiple identity experiences and flexible thinking! #psychology
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Even more lab alumni news! Neera Sameda just received her Masters in Educational Leadership from Harvard and is on her way to Vanderbilt for her Ed.D next!!! 🎓
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The lab won’t be the same without @heyyy_syddd! As our recruitment coordinator she has helped bring so many new families to participate in our science and we are forever thankful! Onward to her PhD now!! A little ice cream send off to say bye!! 👋🏼
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More alumni news! Congrats to Tatum who will be starting at Georgetown Law School this fall! Woo hoo!! 🙌
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Congrats to Tose for her poster acceptance at the upcoming BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at @VCU! She will be presenting her newest data measuring racial/ethnic socialization differences for African Americans and Africans! #psychology #diversityscience
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More recent lab alumni news!! Carmel is officially headed to NYU for medical school in July!! We couldn’t be more excited for her on this next step! 🩺🥳
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A HUGE CONGRATS to Alyssa whose senior thesis on gesture in same and other-race interactions won the Zener Award for best thesis @DukePsychNeuro!!!!! 🏆😍
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Today @SRCDtweets @mercedes_munoz_ gave a talk in the symposium she organized all about Latino identity! She presented her kid work looking at skin tone and demographic form preferences! #srcd2025
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The end of the semester also brings the end of an era!! In about a week we will be moving off campus with the rest of the department for 2 years while our building gets completely renovated! A big change, but pizza always helps with packing @DukeU @DukePsychNeuro
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We have some summer news! Meet Olivia who is new to the lab and Jalen who has been with us a while! They were both accepted to the @DukePsychNeuro VIP program! They will get training on stats and all things science working with us on gesture, race and flexible thinking!
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Lab alumni news!! A huge congrats to Monica who will be starting a PhD in Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as part of the T32 Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training program! 🥳🎉
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It is a tradition for the new first year PhD students to give a talk about their work in progress. Congrats to Tose for presenting in brown bag her new work looking at racial socialization for Black adults with US Born vs Foreign Born parents!
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A big congrats to Alyssa on successfully defending her thesis testing gesture rates in social interactions for White and Black people! Officially graduating with distinction from
@DukeU @DukePsychNeuro!
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More graduating senior news! Ana is headed to @BerkeleyHaas for her PhD in Business Administration! She will be working with @Sakiera_Hudson! Hooray! 🎓
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Our amazing postdoc Esha Naidu got great questions at MPA this year! She presented our work looking at cultural differences in how we use gesture when communicating! #psychology
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More graduating senior news! A big congrats to Jamie who is headed to the University of Miami’s Master of Science in User Experience and Information Design this summer! 🎓
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It is the last full week of classes here at Duke! 🤯 Nothing like an end of semester lab lunch to thank everyone for continuing to push our science forward this year! We couldn’t do our work without each and every single one of you! #psychology
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Such a great Carolinas Conference this year! @sarahegaither was the keynote speaker to a packed room and our amazing undergrad Michelle gave her first ever conference talk about word learning and gesture and got incredible questions and engagement! #psychology
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More graduating senior news! 🎓 Congrats to Michelle who will be a medical assistant at Kuchnir Dermatology in Boston starting later this summer! Yay!
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One of our amazing undergrads Camila presented her work on Latino identity and demographic forms with @mercedes_munoz_ at the ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference this weekend! She got incredible questions too! #psychology
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Graduating senior news! Congrats to Alyssa who will be a Clinical Research Coordinator at Mount Sinai starting later this summer! WOO HOO! EMPLOYMENT!!!
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More news! We are headed to @SPSSI this summer! @kirby_lam’s symposium focusing on masculine norms and identity was accepted and so was @MohammadWiswall’s poster testing how diversity in one’s context shifts multiracial well-being! Portland, OR here we come!
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One of our graduate students @mohammadwiswall is headed to SISPP this summer with @SPSPnews @NorthwesternU to learn new ways to expand his work by considering gender and political ideology! Yay!
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More conference news! Michelle, one our independent study students, is headed to the Carolinas Conference to present work on gesture and word learning! The longest running undergrad conference in psych! #psychology #diversityscience @campbelledu
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Day 1 @SPSPnews was a big success! Esha gave a great talk on gesturing in interracial interactions, @kirby_lam presented a poster on masculine norm violations, and we had a fun lab social hour with one our alums @adam_stanaland #SPSP2025
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Be sure to find our amazing lab manager Hannah Garner @SPSPnews this year presenting some work about gesturing in cross-race Black and White interactions! #psychology #spsp2025
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We are also now over in the blue place!!! @dukeidlab.bsky.social! Give us a follow there!!
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More news! Our amazing lab manager Hannah had some of her work from undergrad accepted for publication at Behavioral Sciences Journal! Look for "School Safety Concerns and Solutions: A Qualitative Analysis of U.S. School Psychologists’ Perspectives" coming out soon!
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What amazing news! Congrats to our Recruitment Coordinator, @heyyy_syddd , for being nominated into the Black Excellence in Science gallery @lifeandscience ! 🥳 Plus, we had an awesome time connecting with new families during the Black Excellence in Science event!
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Congrats to our amazing undergrad RA Camila for being accepted to present at the upcoming ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference @PittTweet She will be presenting her work with @mercedes_munoz_ focusing on Latino identity development and skin tone!
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More congrats! @WiswallMohammad received a Clara Mayo Research Grant from @SPSSI for his new work that will test how the diversity of one’s context can shift identity denial experiences for Multiracial Asian individuals! @DukePsychNeuro
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Big news to start off the new school year! Esha, @mercedes_munoz_, and Tose all won research grants from the Lafitte Foundation to study gesture in interactions, Latino voting behavior, and immigrant parent socialization!
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The lab is headed to @SRCDtweets @mercedes_munoz_ had her symposium on Latine identity development accepted! Plus, our @BassConnections work with @lifeandscience @TamarKushnir @heyyy_syddd @JessaStegall was accepted focusing on persistence in museum tasks & STEM identity!
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Conferences! Hannah will present work focusing on learning outcomes and gesture at @AERA_EdResearch and @SITEconf! Esha will present flexible multicultural identity work and our former grad student @BrendaCStraka will present multiracial exclusion work @MidwesternPsych!
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❄️ Happy end of semester crunch time! That means a tasty lab lunch and chatting with our amazing undergrads all about applying to grad school and jobs! You got this!!! ❄️
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November has been a busy and successful month for IDL! @WiswallMohammad spoke at our department brown-bag lecture, Esha N. delivered a practice lecture, and we supported one of our brilliant RAs in their performance of "In the Heights"! 🍂🍁🍂
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Happy Election Day! We celebrated with some sweet treats and presentations from our grad students Tose and Kirby!
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We made it to @1NLPA! @mercedes_munoz_ & @natalia_m_esp had a symposium about Latine identity and experiences! The theme for the conference was “Weaving a Community-Engaged Psychological Science" which reflects their commitment to understand & empower diverse communities!
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Another successful writing time and lab meeting with presentations from our graduate students Mercedes and Mohammad! @WiswallMohammad
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Had a great time recruiting at Asia Fest in Cary with Duke Child Studies! So great meeting families and sharing our work!
ALT Picture of a crowd and an amphitheater with a banner that reads: "Triangle Area Dragon Boat Asia Festival."
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