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Meet Our Team.

Connect with the researchers driving our lab's mission to promote inclusivity and belonging. Learn about our current members, collaborators, and alumni who contribute to our vibrant research community.

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Photo taken in Spring 2025

Current Lab Members

Geoffrey Cohen

Principal Investigator

Identity, Motivation, Self, Prejudice, Diversity, Poverty and Inequality

Chelsie Burchett

Postdoctoral Fellow

Identity, Belonging, Prejudice, Diversity, Career Decision Making

Yue (Clara) Jia

Doctoral Candidate

Field Intervention, Occupational Health, Motivation, Wellbeing

Will Blakey

Doctoral Candidate

Conversations across Disagreement, Loneliness, Political polarization, Interventions

Xinyi (Amelia) Yu

Research Assistant

Occupational Health, Motivation, Workplace Dynamics

Lambert Li

Assistant Professor

Strategic Human Capital, Workplace Wellness, Health and Social Care, Stress Interventions

Isabelle Tay

Research Affiliate

Motivation, Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Mental Health, Belonging, Sports Psychology

Kevin Chi

Doctoral Candidate

Psychological Interventions, Goals, Motivation, Wellbeing, Big Data Methods

Ramya Kumar

Doctoral Student

STEM Education, Communication, Motivation, Belonging, Wellbeing, Learning and Cognition

Zichen (Celia) Gu

Research Assistant

Roleplay, Narrative Intervention, Bilingualism, Psychophysiology

Wei Yan

Assistant Professor

Self-Affirmation, Values, Character Education, Examinations, Educational Big Data

Wei Li

Research Affiliate

Clinical Intervention, Student Development, Mindset, Self-Motivation

Angel Rivera

Doctoral Candidate

STEM Education, Culture, Belonging, Representation, Diversity, Pedagogy

Sarah Feng

Research Associate

Polarization, Interventions, Communication

Colleagues and Collaborators

Professor
Claude Steele

Stanford University

Professor
Taylor Phillips

New York University

Professor
David Yeager

University of Texas, Austin

Professor
Jonathan Cook

Penn State University


Parker Goyer

The College Board

Professor
Kirstin Layous

California State University, East Bay

Professor
Arghavan Salles

Stanford University

Professor
Gregory Walton

Stanford University

Professor
Jennifer Eberhardt

Stanford University

Professor Valerie
Purdie-Greenaway

Columbia University

Professor
Shannon Brady

Wake Forest University

Professor
Patricia Chen

University of Texas, Austin

Professor
Christine Logel

Renison University College

Professor
Kate Turetsky

Barnard College, Columbia University

Professor
Hazel Markus

Stanford University

Professor
David Sherman

University California, Santa Barbara

Professor
Kevin Binning

University of Pittsburgh


Omid Fotuhi

LRDC, University of Pittsburgh

Professor
René Kizilcek

Cornell University

Professor
Kody Manke-Miller

Carnegie Mellon University

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students

Gregory Walton

Professor

Stanford University

Stacy Fambro

Lecturer

Paier College of Art

Toni Kenthirarajah

Principal UX Researcher

Shannon Brady

Assistant Professor

Wake Forest University

Eric Luis Uhlmann

Professor

INSEAD

Arghavan Salles

Clinical Associate Professor

Stanford Medicine

Kody Manke-Miller

Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph Powers

Principal Data Scientist

Intuit

Arielle Silverman

Director of Research

American Foundation for the Blind

Yula Paluy

UX Researcher & Designer

René Kizilcec

Associate Professor

Cornell University

Xingyu (Alice) Li

Research Affiliate

Stanford University

Postdoctoral Fellows

Christine Logel

Professor

Renison University College

Kristin Layous

Professor

California State University, East Bay

Wei Yan

Assistant Professor

Renmin University of China

Jonathan Cook

Professor

Penn State University

Omid Fotuhi

Research Associate

LRDC, University of Pittsburgh

Kevin Binning

Professor

University of Pittsburgh

Patricia Chen

Assistant Professor

University of Texas, Austin

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