SSI Lab wins first place in research at Mountaintop Summer Experience Expo
08/2021
SSI Lab won first place in Mountaintop Summer Experience Expo with poster entitled, Rewriting the script 3.0: Designing virtual reality embodiment interactions to transform U.S. race relations

The SSI Lab welcomes three new members to the team!
Spring 2021
Welcome Rita Knasel (Masters student), Junmoke James (psych team member), and Jack Curtis (psych and VR coding team member). We are excited to have you all aboard! See our labteam page to read more about our fantastic crew: SSI Lab Team

Dr. Taylor Large Scale Stereotype Threat Project Accepted!
10/20/2020
Dr. Valerie Taylor and her team have received the green light to run a large scale stereotype threat multi-site study project that will be published in Human Nature Behaviour! See the final submission here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6hju9

Recent VR and Interracial Interactions Publications
10/1/2020
Lab members Juan Valladares, Claire Siepser, Caitlyn Yantis, and Dr. Taylor have published a few new exciting papers on interracial interaction processes and virtual reality! Please check them out! 1) Interracial contact in virtual reality: Best-practices at Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences and 2) What do I do? Predicting anticipatory behaviors following ingroup members’ stereotypical behaviors in interracial interactions in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Dr. Taylor Project Revised Resubmission!
06/17/2020
Dr. Valerie Taylor and her team have resubmitted the stereotype threat multi-site study project at Human Nature Behavior! The team has conducted extensive feasibility tests to ensure that the adaptive algorithm will work properly when used in the study. See the revised submission here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6hju9

Welcome Michaela and Spencer!
02/05/2020
We welcome Michaela Lewis and Spencer Lander to the SSI Lab team! They will work as VR coders.

Dr. Taylor Project Resubmit
10/10/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Valerie Taylor for receiving a revise/resubmit of her stereotype threat multi-site study project at Human Nature Behavior! See the preprint here: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6hju9

Welcome New Coders!
09/23/2019
We welcome to our newest VR coders to the SSI Lab team: Matthew Clarke, Hannah Fabian, Nick Owens, and Swetha Ramesh!