Lab News and Updates
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September 2021
Congratulations to lab mascot Flopsie the penguin on his meteoric rise to stardom in this Nature Index article, featured alongside research by PhD graduate Dr. Shannon Callahan and pictured in front of PhD graduate Dr. Amber Sanchez's SPSP research poster!
June 2021
Congratulations to PI Alison Ledgerwood for receiving a Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award!
May 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Dani Yin, former lab RA, who just successfully defended her PhD dissertation at UCSD!
Congratulations to Gabriella Gonzalez, Karla Lizarraga, Paige Snelgrove, and Kyra Zimmerman, all former lab RAs who are off to start graduate programs in the fall!
Congratulations to PhD student Hannah Kramer, who will be joining the School of Psychology at Queen's University Belfast as a postdoctoral scholar leading a new cross-cultural project on the development of religious cognition and behavior!
April 2021
Congratulations to PhD student Andre Wang, who will be joining the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto as a tenure-track assistant professor this summer!
We are excited to welcome the newest member of our lab, Rodolfo Orozco, who will be joining our PhD program in the fall!
September 2020
Congratulations to former PhD student Dr. Amber Sánchez and current PhD student Chris Coleman, first and second author on a paper that was just accepted for publication at Social Cognition!
August 2020
Listen to PI Alison Ledgerwood discuss negativity bias and how to cultivate resilience in our relationships and systems on Episode 8 of But Really, How Are You?
March 2020
Congratulations to Samantha Ballard and Angelique Delarazan, two of our former lab RAs who just accepted admission to graduate psychology programs for the fall!
September 2019
Our lab's research in the news: Why Negative Campaigning Works and How to Fight It
May 2019
Listen to PI Alison Ledgerwood on NPR: How Can We Reframe Setbacks in a Positive Light?
April 2019
Congratulations to Andre Wang for winning a Provost's Dissertation Fellowship!
Congratulations to our lab manager, Paige Snelgrove, who was just accepted to her top choice graduate program at Sacramento State!
March 2019
Congratulations to Sabrina Huang, whose undergraduate senior thesis was just accepted for publication in SPPS!
Congratulations to Dr. Sanchez, who just started her new position as an Institutional Research Associate at Loyola Marymount University!
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December 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Sparks, who just completed her dissertation and is off to start a post-doc in the Social Cognition Center at the University of Cologne!
September 2018
Congratulations to Jehan Sparks, lead author on a paper examining reframing effects across the lifespan that was just accepted for publication in PSPB!
Congratulations to Jehan Sparks for winning a SPSP Graduate Travel Award!
August 2018
Congratulations to Andre Wang for winning the UC Davis Graduate Student Association Travel Award!
June 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Sanchez, who just filed her dissertation!
April 2018
Congratulations to undergraduate research assistant and soon-to-be lab manager Paige Snelgrove for winning a Dukes Fund Travel Award to present a talk at the forthcoming SIPS conference in Grand Rapids, MI, and to PhD student Andre Wang for winning a Dukes Fund Travel Award to present his research at SPSP and a workshop on Distances in Organization in Montreal!
March 2018
Congratulations to Andre Wang for winning the best poster award at the SPSP Social Cognition preconference!
February 2018
We are excited to welcome the newest member of our lab, Aline da Silva Frost, who will be joining our PhD program in the fall!
January 2018
Check out our new article on distance and social influence in Current Opinion in Psychology!
December 2017
PI Ledgerwood has been named a UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow!
October 2017
Our new article on sequential framing in SPPS suggests that negativity biases in reframing persist across both intergroup and intragroup political contexts.
September 2017
Congratulations to our former lab manager and honors thesis student Sabrina Huang, who is starting her PhD at Stanford University this fall!
April 2017
Congratulations to Andre Wang, lead author on a paper examining best practices in using covariates that was just accepted for publication in JESP!
March 2017
Congratulations to Jehan Sparks, lead author on our latest framing paper that was just accepted for publication in JEPG!
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