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!

A belated post to show proof we have moved officially into our new lab space at @duke-university.bsky.social while our building on campus is renovated the next two years!! Come visit us!!

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!!

The lab took a break from our science to learn all about lemur science at the Duke Lemur Center!!! Happy summer, everyone!

And our summer VIP program is complete! Jalen and Olivia presented their final posters yesterday and got great feedback! We can’t wait to see data collection finish up!

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! 🍦🎉

A big lab welcome to Mariam Wahba as our new recruitment coordinator! 👋🏼 A recent grad from UNC Chapel Hill in #psychology 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! 🎨

The lab had a great time @spssi.bsky.social! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social presented new data looking at multiracial Asian identity denial, @kirbylam.bsky.social discussed new masculine norm work, and lab alum @adamstanaland.bsky.social presented his newest work on masculinity too! #spssicon25

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!! #psychology

Tose had a great time presenting at BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at VCU last week! So much amazing feedback on her Black and African socialization work! #psychology

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!! 🩺

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

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!!! 🎓

The lab won’t be the same without Sydney! 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!! 👋🏼

More alumni news! Congrats to Tatum who will be starting at Georgetown Law School this fall! Woo hoo!! 🙌

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

Congrats to Tose for her poster acceptance at the upcoming BGCP (Black Graduate Conference in Psychology) at Virginia Commonwealth University! She will be presenting her newest data measuring racial/ethnic socialization differences for African Americans and Africans! #psychology #diversityscience

Yay for another important chapter out there for the world to read! 📕

Congrats to all of our seniors!!!

More coverage of some of the amazing graduating seniors we have in our lab this year! Here is AJ featured announcing their next step as an EMT as they prepare for medical school applications! CONGRATS, AJ!! 🎓🥳 today.duke.edu/2025/05/last...

Check this out! Our amazing undergrad Ana was featured in a formal @dukeuni.bsky.social write up all about thesis experiences here!

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! 🩺🥳

A HUGE CONGRATS to Alyssa whose senior thesis on gesture in same and other-race interactions won the Zener Award for best thesis!!!!! 🏆😍

Today @srcdorg.bsky.social Mercedes 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

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 @duke-university.bsky.social

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 @duke-university.bsky.social VIP program! They will get training on stats and all things science working with us on gesture, race and flexible thinking! #psychology

Hooray for all of our graduating seniors! Your impact on our lab over the years can’t be measured! 🎓🎓🥳🥳

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! 🥳🎉

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!

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 @duke-university.bsky.social!!