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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.

Jordana Schiralli

Doctoral Student

I have two main lines of research in the area of prejudice and stereotyping. My first line of research examines how targets are perceived when confronting prejudice, particularly when prejudice is benevolent. In this research, I am interested in investigating how women can effectively confront benevolent forms of sexism (e.g., paternalistic or condescending attitudes). In a second line of research, I am investigating how racial stereotypes may influence how sexism is expressed toward and experienced by women of colour. 

Veronica Bergstrom

Doctoral Student

My interests lie very broadly in the area of prejudice and stereotyping. My primary research focuses on religious (Christian, Muslim) and nonreligious (atheist, agnostic) group biases and ways to reduce intolerance between these groups. I am also working on projects involving stereotype intersectionality, where I am investigating how intersecting identities affect stereotype content.

Joel Le Forestier

Doctoral Student

I examine people’s experiences and outcomes in intergroup contexts and study how to improve intergroup relations and minimize group-based disparities through intervention. Two specific questions motivate my research. First, how do members of stigmatized groups navigate intergroup contexts and what are the consequences of their navigation strategies? Second, what are the impacts of prejudice on people’s behaviors and outcomes, and how can we reduce prejudice? I consider both the perceiver and target perspectives of intergroup contexts, use diverse methodological tools (e.g., field, longitudinal, big data, etc.) and statistical tools (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, etc.), and use open science practices throughout my research process. http://joelleforestier.com

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. 

Brooklyn Baly

Lab Manager

I am a fourth year research psychology specialist student here at the University of Toronto. My interests lie broadly in the area of prejudice and discrimination, with a particular focus on sexism and its consequences on well-being. More specifically, I am interested in the particular factors that predict sexist attitudes, and how benevolent sexism is differentially experienced by sexual-minority and -majority women.

Project Students and Research Assistants

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Marco Mai

Valeria Khudiakova

Jaemin Hwang

Emma Yuan

Ashna Nagar

Aliana Razac

Valdis Ling

Tiffany Tse

Rheal Chan

Jiayu Zhang

Shelby Suhan

Yikai Tang

Sophia Jitkova

Azqa Iqbal

Cheryl Nong

Milena Fortino

Anna Maria Savic

Maya Sunda

Emma Yuan

Anastasia Liu

Eva Messager

Nicole Sin

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Lab Alumni

Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Name

Nadia Bashir

Jonathan Cadieux

Lindsey Cary

Caroline Erentzen

Davood Ghara Gozil

Maria Iankilevitch

Sonia Kang

Dominic Packer

Jessica Remedios

Amanda Sharples

Currently At

Founder of Inpression Editing

Psychology Instructor, CEGEP

Ontario Public Service

Assistant Prof. – TMU

Assistant Prof. – U Of Macau

Assistant Prof. Teaching – U of Victoria

Associate Prof. – Rotman U Of T

Professor – Lehigh University

Associate Prof. – Tufts University

Assistant Prof. – Teaching Stream CLTA at University of Toronto

Former Undergraduates

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Victoria Antinucci

Laksmiina Balasubramaniam

Hannah Bild-Enkin

Samantha Brunet

Donna Burdzy

Damian Cangasuriam

Dominic Chan

Lesley Choi

Meredyth Dwyer

Samantha Fan

Bashir Fares

Priscilla Fung

Dana Henderson

Carolyn Hoessler

Liza Igochina

Navin Kariyawasam

Bernard Kehler

Jason Lau

Sharon Li

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

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

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 – NYU

Organizational Psy – Purdue U

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

Clinical Psy – Columbia U

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