Dr. April H. Bailey

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