Denisse Lopez
Lab Manager
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Denisse graduated from UC San Diego in 2022 with a B.S. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience and is planning to pursue a PhD in Psychology. Her research interests surround implicit bias, the development of intergroup biases, and children’s ideas of race, class, and inferences about structural inequality.

Emma Yu
Lab Manager
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Emma graduated from Boston University in 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology and is planning to pursue a PhD in the future. She is broadly interested in social cognitive development, particularly how young children young children think about emotions in relation to fairness and within social relationships.

Ashley Leung
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ashley is a College Fellow in the lab, conducting research on the role of communication in infants’ early social cognition. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, where she studied children’s communicative development, and the role that parents play in supporting children’s language learning.

Brandon Woo
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Brandon’s research program asks how humans come to understand others’ actions and minds, particularly in social contexts. Through studies of infants and toddlers, his research aims to reveal our early-emerging knowledge of other people and to characterize the developmental foundations of human learning, cooperation, and social life more broadly.

Christina Steele
Graduate Student
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More info coming soon!

Mack Briscoe
Graduate Student
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More info coming soon!

Leticia Sefia
Class of 2025

Leticia is interested in how one’s cultural background influences their perception of the world, especially in the context of collectivism vs. individualism.

Nami Enkhbat
Class of 2025

Megan Richardson
Post-Bacc RA