Welcome new SSI Lab graduate student (Tamara) and undergrad RAs!
08-09/2022
Welcome Tamara Franklin (doctoral student)! We also welcome a host of new undergraduate RAs to both the psychology and coding teams! We are excited to have you aboard! See our lab team page to read more about our fantastic crew: SSI Lab Team

APA 2022 Keynote Speaker
08/2022
Dr. Valerie Taylor gave a keynote presentation to the American Psychological Association Conference titled Virtual Interracial Contact: Leveraging Virtual Reality to Improve Interracial Interractions. Watch her keynote presentation here: https://convention.apa.org/agenda/virtual-programs

SPSSI Grant Award
Spring/Summer, 2022
Grant-in-Aid Selection Committee members and The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI): proposal, “Relational identity-safety cues Black and Latinx Americans seek during interactions with White Americans,” (co-PIs: Caitlyn Yantis and Valerie Jones Taylor)

SPSSI Symposium Presentation
06/2022
Dr. Valerie Taylor presented a talk titled Interminority Racial Meta-Stereotypes: Implications for Intergroup Interactions in the symposium When Interminority Relations Spur Coalitional Connections or Highlight Intergroup Fissures at the annual SPSSI Conference in San Juan, PR.

Dr. Valerie Jones Taylor Promoted!
05/2022
Dr. Taylor was promoted to Associate Professor, and also Graduate Director of the Department of Psychology at Lehigh University

SPSP Lab Members Research Presentations
02/2022
Dr. Valerie Taylor and her team presented at the annual SPSP Conference in San Francisco, CA. Presenters include: Valerie Taylor, Whites responses to ingroup members’ racist behavior in interracial interactions; Rita Knasel, Racial meta-stereotypes revisited: Variations by perceiver and target race; Juan Valladares, The impact of witnessing women confirm a negative stereotype in intergroup STEM settings; Raihan Alam, Fostering Constructive Bipartisan Dialogue: Reducing online retaliation following harsh criticism of one’s political beliefs

$1.79M National Science Foundation Career Grant Awarded to Dr.Taylor
10/2021
In this 5-year multi-phase research program, Dr. Taylor will investigate how virtual reality technology can be used to reduce racial bias and anxiety among STEM students tofacilitate positive interracial interactions in STEM fields to improve underrepresented racial minorities’ STEM access and outcomes. All on the team are excited to get to work!