More congrats at the end of the academic year! Our amazing lab manager Hannah is off to the University of Hawaii to start her PhD and our postdoc Esha is off to a new research position at Wake Forest!! Woo hoo!

Congrats to Mercedes on receiving Duke’s Forever Duke Award! This honor recognizes graduating students who truly embody the “Forever Duke” spirit—through leadership, service, and a deep commitment to their community. Mercedes is exactly that kind of person! Professor life here she comes!

The end of the semester is here! There’s something fitting about ending this stretch of the academic year with a literal climb. 239 steps specifically and we did it! Cheers to another year of amazing science and friendship with my @dukeidlab.bsky.social!!

The best lab ever!!! ⭐️

It is LDOC today, so congrats to our seniors! Jalen is off to a Masters in Education program at Columbia, Krystal is off to a Masters in Mental Health Counseling program at Villanova, Kaitlyn is off to earn her nursing degree at Jefferson College, and Jaya will be working as an analyst at iCapital!

A big congrats to Jalen on successfully defending his honors thesis! His project focuses on what experiences boost flexible thinking outcomes for monocultural and multicultural children! Graduation with honors here he comes!

Check out some new coverage about our Duke Child Studies group and some of the great recruitment events we do such as the upcoming Science Expo! today.duke.edu/2026/04/duke...

Our lab had a great time at the NC Carolina Conference in Cognition! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social gave a talk on racial miscategorization and stereotype misattributions, Mariam gave a poster on children’s generalizations, and Madelyn presented on microaggressions for Multiracial Asian individuals!

As we head into the final month of the term @dukeidlab.bsky.social , our lab took a moment to slow down and reset through yoga 🧘‍♀️ Science demands focus, curiosity, and resilience. Taking time to center ourselves isn’t stepping away from the work, it’s supporting it!

Come work with us!!!

Congrats to @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social on receiving the Aleane Webb Dissertation fellowship! His dissertation is titled “When we get it wrong: The occurrence and consequences of racially ambiguous misperceptions” and we can’t wait to get more data analysis and data collection going!

Happy spring break, everyone!

Last day @spspnews.bsky.social! Jalen presented his thesis on flexible thinking in kids, Mariam discussed identity denial attributions, Tose showed Black immigrant socializations, & @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social highlighted how context (Hawaii vs mainland) shifts identity denial outcomes! #spsp2026

Day 2 @spspnews.bsky.social! A fun lab breakfast, Hannah presented on gesture and social interactions, Esha discussed gesture and word learning in kids, and @kirbylam.bsky.social highlighted masculinity norm violations! So much science! #spsp2026

A belated Day post here @spspnews.bsky.social! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Mariam presented at preconferences their work on racial ambiguity and kid’s generalizations, and Julia presented her poster on random college roommates and flexible thinking outcomes! #spsp2026

Honored to accept the Ambady Mentoring Award @spspnews.bsky.social on behalf of my advisor Sam Sommers who passed away last year. Sam built communities grounded in inclusion. A reminder that mentoring and expanding who belongs in our field isn’t secondary to our work. It is the work. #spsp2026

Hooray for diversity science!!

Roses are red, Data are neat, Best lab around, Can’t be beat!!!

Our lab has had a great time on BC plaza @duke-university.bsky.social talking all about the benefits of our peer texting mental health program Duke Line for students! Free hot chocolate was an added bonus while tabling! ☕️❄️

Check out this amazing write up by highschoolers who interviewed me about @dukeidlab.bsky.social! www.dukevertices.org/blog/underst...

Check out @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social presenting at the Duke Research Cafe! Lots of people connected with his work looking at multiracial identity denial! @duke-university.bsky.social

We had a great time at the Duke Pre-Health Ivy League’s lab fair talking about our lab and Duke Line which is the anonymous peer mental health texting line we helped develop here @duke-university.bsky.social with Dr. Nancy Zucker!

Check out @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social at this upcoming event on campus @duke-university.bsky.social!

New research from the lab!!

What’s an amazing holiday gift that not everyone has? A shiny new Masters degree! Big congrats to @kirbylam.bsky.social on passing his Masters thesis defense yesterday!!!

New work from the lab!!!! Check it out!!

Congrats to Avani, our summer highschool intern, who recently gave a talk on her work with Tose looking at Black socialization and identity at a conference at Elon University!

Big congrats to Mercedes Muñoz — a future professor of psychology at the University of Richmond 🥳 UR and the students there are so lucky to have her! 👏📚✨

New paper! 🚨 We show that demographic forms can shape belonging. Across 4 studies, Latine Americans reported greater identity threat and exclusion when forms separated “race” and “ethnicity” or asked about citizenship—especially around major U.S. elections journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Grateful for our incredible lab team—their curiosity and care drive our science every day. 🧠💫 And heartfelt thanks to the adults, children, and families who make our research possible through their participation and trust. We couldn’t do this work without you. 🍂💛 #Psychology #Research #Gratitude

Some coverage of some of our most recently published work!!!

Happy Diner = Happy Science! Hooray for brunch and all of the work that we do! Almost at the end of the semester, so nothing like French toast, eggs, and bacon to keep us fueled!

More @spspnews.bsky.social happiness for the lab! Congrats to @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social Tose, Mercedes, Hannah, Mariam and our undergrads Julia and Jalen for all having posters accepted!! We hope chilly Chicago is ready for our science!!

Happy howlaween from the Duke ID Lab! We had a great time seeing the Duke Canine Cognition lab’s puppy fashion show! It was “wicked”!!!

More lab alumni news! A big congrats to Dr. Alexandria West, a former postdoc in our lab, who is officially a tenure track professor in management at Dalhousie University!

Woo hoo! Amazing news for our PI!!!

The lab is headed to Chicago officially @spspnews.bsky.social Congrats to Esha and @kirbylam.bsky.social for having their symposia accepted focusing on social intervention outcomes and gender norms! Hopefully good news on posters soon too!

Check out some coverage of our postdoc Esha Naidu's work highlighting the connections and sense of belonging we all feel uniquely at events like concerts! #psychology www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

Congrats to Kelly on her first conference poster yesterday at Duke’s Global Mental Health conference! She presented work looking at gender differences in microaggressions and identity denial for Multiracial Asian people she did with @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Hannah!

Happy fall y’all! We are clearly the pick of the patch since our data is looking gourd-geous!

A double congrats to Jalen, our honors student, for receiving TWO research grants from Duke’s URS office and The Lafitte Foundation! Jalen is testing how multiple identities, especially for biracial and bicultural children, in addition to contact with diversity can shape flexible thinking!

Congrats to Kelly, one of our amazing undergrads working with @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social and Hannah, on her poster looking at Multiracial Asian identity denial bwing accepted to the Duke Global Mental Health Conference! sites.duke.edu/dukegmhconf2...

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A brand new paper from the lab!!! Check it out! 📖📖

More alumni news! Nick is starting a Masters of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at USC this fall!!

More lab alumni news! Joan just got her white coat as one of the newest class members at @dukemedschool.bsky.social!! 🥼

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!!

Congrats to Tose on receiving a Clara Mayo Award from @spssi.bsky.social to fund her work looking at immigrant socialization practices!!

Congrats to Mercedes on being accepted into the next cohort of Preparing Future Faculty here @duke-university.bsky.social She will be on the job market this fall so keep an eye out!! 🎉

SISSP (Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology) @spspnews.bsky.social was a big success! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social met so many wonderful people in the field and learned a ton too!