Lab news
Defenses, conferences, awards, and the occasional lab brunch. Click any photo to see all of the photos from that event.
Maya Rao, Adrienne Brummett, and Bianca Gregory gave stellar presentations at the department's annual Graduate Research Colloquium, and Dr. Cassidy and the grad students were all smiles afterward. Well done!
The lab's grad students, director, and a future psy-entist welcomed the academic year.
Sloane Freeman successfully defended her MA thesis, and we celebrated together afterward.
Your contributions to the lab were so so valued.
The lab visits Chicago, IL, for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference.
Celebrating a love of cognition, members of the SoCogLab and the MAC Lab climbed a lot of flights of stairs.
Sloane Freeman gave a fantastic talk about the research she conducted during her first year.
2025–2026 Social Cognition Lab graduate students (+ advisor), ready to research/rock and roll!
Your enthusiasm for research and Survivor discussions will be missed in the lab.
Lab brunch is now a tradition. Celebrating a semester of hard work.
People who research together escape kidnapping together.
This lab breakfasts. Celebrating a semester of solid work.
Yesenia taught Dr. Cassidy about vending machines and Celsius.
Celebrating Dr. Trever Ojeda and Dr. Hayley Liebenow with wine and cheese.
Resigned to the AI takeover, Dr. Cassidy learns what AI thinks she looks like.
Combining lab interests in true crime, puzzles, taprooms, and resigned pleas to stack overflow (clues!).
Taco Tuesday and serious academic poses with Megan Stanfield, Corban Mills, Hayley Liebenow, Brittany Cassidy, and Trever Ojeda.
Understanding People from Faces: From Detection to Discrimination, with Dr. Kerri Johnson, Dr. Paula Niedenthal, Dr. Kerry Kawakami, and Dr. Alex Todorov.
Honors student Brendan Diaz earns first place in the 2023 Thomas Undergraduate Research Forum at UNCG.
Accompanied by Gloria, Dr. Cassidy receives the Thomas Undergraduate Mentor Award for pre-tenure faculty at UNCG.
The lab presents at SPSP in Atlanta, GA.
Hayley Liebenow earns her MA and honors student Shima Mohamed graduates.
Dr. Cassidy's graduate social psychology class fan-people-ing Dr. Claude Steele at Wake Forest University.
Honors students Grace Clark and Caraline Malloy graduate.
Caraline Malloy, Hayley Liebenow, and Dr. Cassidy at SPSP 2022 in San Francisco, CA.
The Social Cognition Lab in Fall 2021. From left to right: Trever Ojeda, Brittany Cassidy, Hayley Liebenow, and Alyssa Newlon.
Lab graduate students and research assistants in Fall 2021.