36th Annual Conference
Participants, 2023
Participants whose names are shown in blue
will be attending their first in-person
Duck Conference. Those whose names
are in black are returning Duckees.
Participants should feel
free to contact the conference organizer
if they wish to substitute another picture
or to add or revise their descriptions of
professional or personal interests.
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Department of Psychology, Miami
University of Ohio
Functions of
socially constructed relationships
with family and pets; the
psychology of conservation;
decoding others' nonverbal
displays; attitude formation and
persuasion; self-concept
representation.
Photography,
travel, music, golf, technology,
running.
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Psychological and Brain
Sciences, Indiana University
Gender, social roles,
stereotyping, STEM.
Reading, happy hour, eating,
yoga, TV, admiring this
20-year-old picture of me. |
April
Smith
She/her |
Department of Psychological
Sciences, Auburn University
Eating disorders, suicide,
self-injurious behavior,
interoception, intervention
development.
Eating good food, wine (mostly
just drinking it), cooking,
exercising, reading, watching TV,
gaming, doing my nails.
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Ashley
Whillans
She/her
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Harvard Business School,
Harvard University
Time-use,
subjective well-being, leisure,
work-family decisions, performance
incentives, workplace policies,
generosity.
Indoor
cycling; running; writing
(especially things I'm not
supposed to be writing); couch
time with my husband; kitty
and/or daughter; new restaurants
and cafes; traveling.
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Debbie
Ma
She/her
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Department of Psychology,
California State University,
Northridge
Face perception, categorization,
cross-race deficit, stereotyping and
prejudice.
Parenting (95% of the time),
Tonal (sorry Peloton peeps);
adventuring of all kinds, talking
to strangers, Tetris. |
Diana
Sanchez
She/her
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Department
of Psychology, Rutgers University
Stigma, identity, lay theories,
and close relationships.
Tennis, hot yoga,
Korean food, Zillow surfing,
talking about writing a book,
cuddling with my son, and
one-on-one conversations
(especially with my daughter).
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Don
Carlston
He/Him
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Department of Psychological
Sciences, Purdue University
Social
cognition, of course!
Basketball
& other sports (alas, more
watching than playing these
days), the stock market,
inventing & playing games,
travel, gadgets, music, Canada,
my kids and grandkids. And
Duck!!
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Dorainne
Green
She/her
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Psychological and Brain
Sciences, Indiana University
Emotion regulation, intergroup
relations, social identity threat.
Reading, journaling, eating, book
clubs, watching TV, Peloton,
spending time next to a body of
water (e.g., beaches, lakes,
ponds). |

Elizabeth
Haines
She/her
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Department of Psychology,
William-Patterson University
Social
perception, gender stereotyping,
implicit measurement, social
power, translating psychological
phenomena and findings for use in
organizational settings.
Daydreaming,
fretting, hot
yoga/Pelaton/running.
growing/loving/coaching two
teenagers into human beings who
are self-aware but not
self-absorbed, have a good sense
of humor, and don't take
themselves too seriously.
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Emily Balcetis
She/her
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Department of Psychology, New
York University
Motivated
visual perception and social
judgment.
Eating,
adventuring, avoiding
police...in
combination...repeat.
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Eric
Hehman
He/Him
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Department of Psychology,
McGill University
Prejudice, person perception.
Pool volleyball in the shallow
end, pool volleyball in the deep
end; pool volleyball without
sunscreen.
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Franki
Kung
He/Him
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Department
of Psychological Sciences, Purdue
University
Culture, lay theories, goals and
self-regulation, conflict
resolution.
Travel, seafood, movies, whiskey,
and finding good deals on these.
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Jackie Chen
She/her
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Department of Psychology,
University of Utah
Social cognition, categorization,
fostering diversity and inclusion
in institutions via cross-group
relationships (mentorship,
allyship) and policy changes.
Trying new
restaurants, traveling, Peloton,
admiring other people's dogs and
trying not to be creepy about
it.
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Jeff
Hunger
He/Him
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Department of Psychology, Miami
University of Ohio
Health effects
of stigma and discrimination,
social identity threat, intergroup
relations.
Making
annoyingly bougie food and
drinks, (probably trashy)
television and movies, Peloton,
traveling.
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Johannes
Eichstaedt
He/Him
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Department of Psychology &
Institute for Human-centered AI,
Stanford University
NLP: LLMs (GPT4, etc.) for
interventions; machine learning/AI
for assessment/measurement;
Well-being: affect, satisfaction and
purpose and their individual and
societal determinants; Mental
and physical health: depression,
stress, and anxiety.
Long-distance ultralight hiking
(in the Andes, Himalayas, Sierras,
Arctic, etc.); Travel 3-4
months/year; scuba diving, kite
surfing (poorly), snowboarding
(poorly); Rick and Morty, South
Park.
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John Paul Wilson
He/Him
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Psychology Department,
Montclaire State
University.
Social perception and cognition.
The outdoors, live music,
exploring new places.
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Jonathan
Kunstman
He/Him
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Department of Psychological
Sciences, Auburn University
Stereotyping, stigma, prejudice,
organizational and health outcomes.
Running/exercise, science
fiction, cocktails, cooking, music
for the occasion, all things
Prince.
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Keith Maddox
He/Him |
Department of Psychology, Tufts
University
Social cognition, mental
representation, stereotyping,
intergroup relations, diversity,
climate and inclusion.
Dancing, movies, music, dining
outdoors, scuba/snorkeling.
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Kurt Hugenberg
He/Him
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Psychological and Brain
Sciences, Indiana University
Social cognition, social perception,
stereotyping & prejudice .
Reading, bicycling, watching
crappy TV, playing games, goofing
off with friends, wasting time,
hammocks. |
Liz
Dunn
She/her
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Department
of Psychology, University of
British Columbia
Happiness, optimizing the use of
time, money, technology and
carbon.
Surfing, skiing,
mountain biking, travel, the
adjacent possible.
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Lora
Park
She/her
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Department of Psychology,
University of Buffalo, SUNY
The self, motivation,
contingencies of self-worth,
social identity, addressing
barriers to broaden participation
in STEM.
Traveling, snowboarding, power
yoga, running, hiking, biking,
singing, listening to music,
food/wine.
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Department of Psychology,
Penn State - Abington
Social exclusion, stereotyping,
prejudice, intergroup relations,
face processing.
Movies and television, bad
movies, cooking, photography,
travel, swimming, the beach.
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(Cancelled)
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Department
Academic interests
Personal Interests. |

Paige
Lloyd
She/her
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Department of Psychology,
University of Denver
Determinants and consequences of
person perception, with an
emphasis on implications for
social inequality and
discrimination
Antiquing, painting, dancing,
drinks that contain vodka, and
Nancy Drew computer games.
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Pam
Smith
She/her |
Rady
School of Management, University
of California-San Diego
Power, status,
and hierarchy, more broadly,
social cognition.
Music (listening and dancing to,
attending live shows). cultural
critique.
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Teri
Kirby
She/her |
Department
of Psychological Sciences, Purdue
University
Diversity, inclusion,
discrimination, and stereotyping,
particularly drawing on
psychological theories of
self/identity and acculturation.
Exploring restaurants,
cooking/trying new types of
food, travel, hiking, reading
fiction, tv/movies, making
unnecessary spreadsheets for
everything.
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Thekla
Morgenroth
They/Them
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Department
of Psychological Sciences, Purdue
University
How and why people maintain
social categories and hierarchies;
stereotypes; gender/sex, LGBTQ+
issues; essentialism.
Food (cooking and eating it);
karaoke; board games; trying to
pet every cat I see; hking;
cocktails; napping; dystopian
& apocalyptic books &
movies.
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Ximena
Arriaga
She/her
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Department of Psychological
Sciences, Purdue University
Close bonds,interdependence,
attachment, inclusion, aggression.
Watching movies and sports,
baking and eating baked goods,
playing cards.
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The
Head Duck
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Department of Conferencology,
Duck University
Professional interests?
I'm supposed to have professional
interests?
Pool Volleyball, sunscreen,
going incognito, wearing
T-shirts that say things like
"The Duck Stops here," enjoying
this year's conference, planning
next year's conference,
reminiscing about conferences
past.
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