Keely graduated in Spring 2023 with a B.A. in Psychology, although she plans to continue working in the lab during a gap year before applying to graduate school. Keely's project examines how social norms influence participation in conspiracy theories.
Olivia graduated in Spring 2022 with a B.S. in Psychology. Olivia played a role in the SoTL project examining how social norms could impact course evaluation completion. She is currently working as a Waiver Case Manager with Connections. She helps individuals with disabilities find necessary resources like respite, behavior management, music therapy, etc.
Alexandria will graduate in Spring 2023 with a dual degree in Psychology and Biology. During her time in the lab, Alexandria designed a project to test if descriptive norms could impact mental health treatment seeking. Alexandria received Endeavor funding for this project and presented her work at the Endeavor conference here at USI in 2022 and 2023. After graduation, Alexandria plans to attend a Masters program in Biostatistics with eventual plans to attend medical school.
Sabrina graduated in Spring 2023 and will join the University of Evansville's PsyD program in Fall 2023. During her time in the lab, she's helped run studies examining social norms' effects on course evaluations, and the effectiveness of feedback. This culminated at a presentation at USI's Endeavor Conference and the Midwestern Psychological Association in Spring 2023.
Dr. Hirt is a professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. His research spans self-protection, self-regulation, creativity, and decision making. Click here to learn more about his work!
Sam is a graduate student in Social Psychology at Indiana University Bloomington. She studies social norms and the ways in which identity impacts adherence to these norms. She is also broadly interested in processes related to conceptualizations of identity and the self. For more information about Sam, check out her LinkedIn page by clicking here!
Dr. Hughes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute in Canada. Her work investigates the social cognitive neuroscience of normative and non-normative aging using behavioral, neuroimaging, and network science methods. For more information about her work, click here!
Dr. Kroeper is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sacred Heart University. Her research research identifies and addresses social inequities between those traditionally advantaged and those traditionally disadvantaged in society. To this end, she uses multiple methods (experiments, surveys, interviews, and audit studies) to examine social issues from a variety of perspectives (target, perceiver, and organizational). For more information about her work, click here!
Dr. Sherman received her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 2022. She is now a User Experience (UX) Researcher with Bold Insight.
