Andrew Todd | Lab Director

Andy is the director of the Social Inference Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received a B.A. in psychology from Michigan State University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University. Before coming to UC Davis, Andy was an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa. You can get a good idea of his research interests by exploring this site. 
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Matthew Elderkin | Graduate Student

Matt is a doctoral student in the UC Davis psychology program. He received his B.S. in psychology from Northeastern University in Boston. He studies how being a member of multiple marginalized groups impacts an individual's experience of bias, perceptions of others, and sense of identity. He's also interested in how having multiple identities affects a person's relationships within and between groups.

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Imani Morgan | Graduate Student

Imani is a doctoral student in the UC Davis psychology program. She received her B.A. in psychology from CSU, Channel Islands. Imani's primary research interests lie in social cognition, specifically looking at the mechanisms that underlie implicit attitudes, face perception and stereotypes. She also has interests in the visual representations of various groups and the interplay of our emotions with our biases and prejudices.
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Stephanie Oliinyk | Graduate Student

Stephanie is a doctoral student in the UC Davis psychology program. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Toronto. Broadly, Stephanie's interests include social judgments, dehumanization, and the influence of beliefs on social decision-making. She is also interested in social cognition research in the context of health.

Samuel Klein | Affiliated Graduate Student​

Sam is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Northeastern Illinois University and his M.A. in Social Psychology from the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. Sam is interested in how people make judgments of each other. Using a variety of methods, he focuses on 1) which information people use to form (or revise) impressions of who a person or group is, 2) the cognitive processes by which the mind operates to form these judgments, and 3) how the various contexts people find themselves in influence both the information they use and the cognitive processes that operate to form their judgments of others.

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​Lab Alumni

Pascal Burgmer | Visiting Graduate Student (2013)
Jason Deska | Lab Manager (2011-2013)
Matthias Forstmann | Research Intern (2010-2011)
Ryan Hutchings | Affiliated Graduate Student (2018-2021)
Bethany Lassetter | Affiliated Graduate Student (2016-2017)
Gustav Lundberg | Honors Thesis Student (2016-2017)
Rebecca Neufeld | Lab Manager (2019-2020)
Heather Rees | Affiliated Graduate Student (2018-2021)
Austin Simpson | Graduate Student (2014-2019)
Victoria Spring | Affiliated Graduate Student (2015-2016)
Kelsey Thiem | Affiliated Graduate Student (2014-2016)
Ji Xia | Lab Manager (2013-2014)
Andre Wang | Affiliated Graduate Student (2018-2021)