People

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. 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 candidate in the UC Davis psychology program. He received his B.S. in psychology from Northeastern University in Boston and his M.A. in Social Psychology from the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. He currently studies how autistic adults are stigmatized and how they may be multiply marginalized based on their gender and racial identities as well. Matt also researches how traditional deficit-based research on autism may be misguided and how social challenges ascribed to autistic people can actually be attributed to both parties in cross-neurotype interactions.

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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.

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)
Samuel Klein | Affiliated Graduate Student (2019-2024)
Bethany Lassetter | Affiliated Graduate Student (2016-2017)
Gustav Lundberg | Honors Thesis Student (2016-2017)
Imani Morgan | Graduate Student (2019-2022)
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)