People
Lab Director (CV)
Bio: I am an assistant professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire. I received my BA from Colgate University and my Ph.D. from Yale University in social and personality psychology. Outside the lab, I enjoy biking and reading fantasy, sci-fi, and philosophy.
Email: april.bailey@unh.edu
Trish Burkins
Ph.D. Student
Bio: I'm a Ph.D. Student in social psychology at UNH, working with Dr. Bailey in the BIAS Lab. Originally from Middlebury VT, I graduated from Ithaca College in 2021 and decided to continue my education to conduct research and become a professor. I love painting, games, and meeting new people!
Research Interests: My work at Ithaca College focused on motivation and well-being, particularly on self-determination theory and regulatory focus theory. My current work in the BIAS lab is investigating the interaction between gender, androcentrism, and personhood, with further research into the mechanisms behind this interaction currently on the horizon. In the future, I also plan to explore the connection between essentialism (biological and value-based) and views towards transgender people, possibly to uncover mechanisms that could be used in interventions.
Email: trish.burkins@unh.edu
Nich DiMaggio
Lab Research Coordinator
Bio: I am a Post-Bac researcher at UNH. I received my BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I intend on pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior in the near future. When I'm not doing research, I volunteer as a coach at the local kickboxing gym.
Research Interests: My work at UNC focused on moral judgements and political polarization, drawing on theories of dyadic morality and cultural tightness to investigate perceptions around "purity" and climate change. My work in the BIAS lab uses Natural Language Processing techniques to investigate how features in language influence latent gender bias. In the future, I hope to explore the connection between gender stereotypes and perceptions of agency and how this influences inequality in the workplace.
Email: nicholas.dimaggio@unh.edu
Sofía Briones
Lab Research Coordinator
Bio: I am a Post-Bac researcher at UNH. I graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Psychology and hope to one day pursue a Ph.D. in either Clinical or Social Psychology. In my free time, I enjoy running around the rugby pitch, baking little treats, and reading as much as possible.
Research Interests: My work in the Human Diversity Lab at Princeton explored how individuals spontaneously perceive and categorize one another along the social dimension of gender and how this seemingly crude perceptual process may be influenced by an individual's unique conceptual priors. This research was motivated by a desire to explore how social knowledge and lived experience shape one-to-one human perception experiences, with the hope of identifying mechanisms that can help mitigate certain gender biases early on in the perception process. I am excited to continue exploring "social vision" and theories related to social categorization/person perception at the BIAS lab in the coming year!
Email: sofia.briones@unh.edu
Research Assistants
Cade Christensen
Junior in Psychology
Will Copeland
Junior in Psychology
Will Gaudreau
Senior in Psychology & Philosophy
Paige Kaufman
Sophomore in Psychology & Neuroscience
GRSIL Research Intern
Erin Luckern
Senior in Psychology
McNair Fellow
Niko McPherson
Senior in Musical Theater
McNair Fellow
Lab Affiliates and Collaborators
Sophie Arnold
Graduate Student in Cognitive & Developmental Psychology
NYU
Dr. Sam Carton
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
UNH
Dr. Andrei Cimpian
Professor in Cognitive & Developmental Psychology
NYU
Dr. Joanna Demaree-Cotton
Research Fellow in Moral Psychology
Oxford
Dr. Robin Dembroff
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Yale
Ingrid Friedman
Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology
Drexel
Shan Gao
Graduate Student in Social Psychology
University of Hawaii
Dr. Adriana L. Germano
Assistant Professor in OB
Yale SOM
Dr. Elif G. Ikizer
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
UW-Green Bay
Dr. Joshua Knobe
Professor in Philosophy
Yale
Dr. Jonas Kunst
Professor in Social Psychology
University of Oslo
Maya Kreitman
Graduate Student in Clinical Psychology
University of Chicago
Dr. Benedek Kurdi
Assistant Professor in Social Psychology
UIUC
Rachel Leshin
Graduate Student in Social & Developmental Psychology
NYU
Dr. Kristina Olson
Professor in Developmental Psychology
Princeton
Aashna Poddar
Graduate Student in Cognitive & Developmental Psychology
NYU
Dr. Andrea Vial
Assistant Professor at in Social Psychology
NYU Abu Dhabi
Dr. Adina Williams
Research Scientist
Meta AI
Dr. Daniel Wodak
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Penn
Franklin the (Wild)Cat
Bio: Franklin grew up on the streets of NYC before being taken in by a kind stranger. Franklin then spent several months at a shelter before being adopted by Dr. Bailey. Franklin now serves as the BIAS Lab's very own "UNH wildcat" mascot.
Interests: wand toys, pigeons, squirrels, and eating grass