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Dr. Alison Chasteen

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Intergroup Relations Lab

Dr. Alison Chasteen

Principal Investigator

Alison Chasteen received her BA from Kalamazoo College and her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan before joining the University of Toronto. She is a social psychologist with specialized training in aging and cognition. She is a consulting editor for the journal of Psychology and Aging and the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. She also answers as a reviewer for numerous social psychology and aging journals.

Hannah Gans

Doctoral Student

Broadly speaking, my research interests are geared towards examining perceivers’ ageist stereotypes, while accounting for the target’s race and gender. More specifically, I am interested in how age can either compound or contradict the pre-held stereotypes that perceivers hold about the targets. 

Amy Gourley

Doctoral Student

I am broadly interested in examining how age-related stigma is adopted and maintained across the lifespan. Throughout my graduate program, I aim to investigate factors that impact the internalization and/or endorsement of ageism towards older adults. I’m currently interested in the moderating effects of intergenerational contact and subjective age on older adults’ attitudes about ageism.

Jaemin Hwang

Lab Manager

I completed my undergraduate degree at the University Toronto, with a Psychology Research Specialist and Education & Society Minor. My interests lie broadly in the area of bias and prejudice development, as well as how intersectionality shapes individuals’ experiences. More specifically, I am interested in how social categories (e.g., race, gender) that individuals belong to and the broader system (e.g., institutional privilege, norms, stereotypes) intersect together to shape adults’ and children’s beliefs and interactions with others.

Project Students and Research Assistants

Name

Tien Yang

Jamila Salad

Catherine Ma

Meixuan Liu

Sindhu Sivasankar

Lily Huang

Adam Ezzeddine

Position

Independent Project Student

Independent Project Student

Thesis Student

ROP Student

ROP Student

ROP Student

Volunteer RA

Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Name

Jordana Schiralli

Joel Le Forestier

Veronica Bergstrom

Nadia Bashir

Jonathan Cadieux

Lindsey Cary

Caroline Erentzen

Davood Ghara Gozil

Maria Iankilevitch

Sonia Kang

Dominic Packer

Jessica Remedios

Amanda Sharples

Currently At

Citizen Relations

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell U

Dacture

Founder of Impression Editing

Psychology Instructor, CEGEP

Ontario Public Service

Assistant Prof. – Toronto Metropolitan U

Assistant Prof. – U of Macau

Assistant Prof. Teaching – U of Victoria

Professor – U of T Missasauga

Professor – Lehigh University

Associate Prof. – Tufts University

Assistant Prof. Teaching Stream – U of T

Former Undergraduates

Name

Victoria Antinucci

Laksmiina Balasubramaniam

Hannah Bild-Enkin

Samantha Brunet

Donna Burdzy

Damian Cangasuriam

Dominic Chan

Elizabeth Chan

Tim Chao

Lesley Choi

Meredyth Dwyer

Samantha Fan

Bashir Fares

Priscilla Fung

Dana Henderson

Carolyn Hoessler

Liza Igochina

Navin Kariyawasam

Bernard Kehler

Valeria Khudiakova

Jason Lau

Sharon Li

Mercy Luo

Echo Ma

Yikai Ma

Eleanor Myatt

Jennifer Na

Mojan Naisani Samani

Bilal Negash

Darko Odic

Eugene Ofosu

Elvina Oey

Jade Ong-Tone

Paolo Palma

Alice Pan

Patrick Pang

Winnie Quach

Sasha Rennick-Purcell

Leanne Rokos

Lauren Ruelens

Anisha Sharma

Melanie Sinn

Sarah Skyvington

Maisha Syeda

Drishti Thakkar

Erika Thauberger

Pascale Tsai

Crystal Tse

Joseph Tse

Aditi Verma

Daniel Wang

Wilson Yang

Norman Zeng

Ruifan Zeng

Currently At

Public Policy – U Toronto

Law/Public Policy – U Toronto

Education – U Toronto (OISE)

Social Work – U Toronto

Clinical Psy – Bowling Green U

Organizational Psy – St. Mary’s U

Social Work – U Toronto

Social/Personality Psy – U Toronto

Developmental Psy – UIUC

Counseling Psy – U Toronto

Child Studies – Concordia U

Development Psy – U Chicago

Law – Western University

Development Psy – UTM

Occ Therapy – McMaster U

Education – Queens U

Development Psy – Queens U

Medicine – U Toronto

Social Work – U Toronto

Psychology – U of Birmingham

Psychology – NYU

Organizational Psy – Purdue U

Psychology – NYU

Organizational Psy – NYU

Organizational Psy – NYU

Development Psy – UTM

Clinical Psy – UBC

Social Psy, Brock U

Medical School – George Wash U

Cognitive Psy – Johns Hopkins U

Social Psy – McGill U

Occ Therapy – U Toronto

Nursing – U Toronto

Social Psy – Western U

Law – Osgood Hall

Law – U Toronto

Education – U Toronto (OISE)

Social Work – U Toronto

Institute of Medical Science – U Toronto

Social Psy – Tulane U

Counseling Psy – City U Of London

Law – U Ottawa

Organizational Psy – U Waterloo

Clinical Psy – U Calgary

Faculty of Information – U Toronto

Educational PSY – UBC

Institute of Medical Science – U Toronto

Social Psy – U Waterloo

Clinical Psy – Washington State U

Counseling Psy – Columbia U

Rehabilitation Sci – U Toronto

Organizational Psy – Columbia U

Developmental Psy – U Toronto

Clinical Psy – Columbia U

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