News

August 27, 2024

Daniel Sanji, inaugural lab manager and first-year PhD student at Northwestern University, received the Dr. Newton K. Wesley (Uyesugi) Memorial Scholarship from the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).

Congratulations, Daniel!

August 9-13, 2024

Kiera, Merrick, Analexis, and Alexandra represent HIGHER Lab at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Chicago!

July 10, 2024

Teresa Campbell (UC Berkeley ‘24) starts as the second lab manager of HIGHER Lab! Teresa previously worked for HIGHER Lab as an undergraduate RA and summer research fellow before taking a break. We are so excited to welcome her back to the lab!

Congratulations!

May 19, 2024

Lab manager Daniel Sanji was awarded the Yoshino Family Scholarship ($6000) from the Japanese American Citizen League (JACL) Chicago in recognition of his research on and engagement with the Asian American community.

Congratulations!

April 15, 2024

Lab manager Daniel Sanji will be starting his PhD in (Social) Psychology at Northwestern University in Fall 2024 with Dr. Michael Kraus and Dr. Sylvia Perry!

Congratulations, and go Wildcats!

April 10, 2024

Undergraduate RA Theo Danial (Freshman, Chemical Engineering) received a URAP Summer Award for 2024 ($3500). Theo will spend the summer researching stereotypes of gender atypicality among gay men and lesbian women in masculine and feminine domains with Dr. Hudson.

Congratulations, Theo!

April 4, 2024

Lab manager Daniel Sanji received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship for his project Ambivalent Stereotypes of Asian Americans and Their Hierarchy-Enhancing Function in U.S. Society. This fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The GRFP provides three years of financial support over a five-year fellowship period.

See a list of winners here.

April 1, 2024

Dr. Hudson was announced as a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CAREER Award for her project Understanding the Role of Schadenfreude in Intergroup Conflict. The CAREER Award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. This award will fund five consecutive years of research in this lab.

October 18, 2023

Dr. Hudson was recently awarded one of the SAGE Emerging Scholar Awards. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by early-career PhD scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field.

Read more about the award here.

April 7, 2023

Undergraduate RA Teresa Campbell (Junior, Global Studies) received a URAP Summer Award for 2023 ($3500). Teresa will spend the summer researching misperceptions of racial progress and temporal distancing with Dr. Hudson.

We are so proud of you, Teresa! Read more here!

December 1, 2022

After successfully defending his dissertation at USC Marshall School of Business, DR. Merrick Osborne joins Haas School of Business as the inaugural Postdoctoral Scholar in Racial Equity!

Read about Merrick’s new role here!

November 20, 2022

University of Bonn psychology master’s student Lilli Wagner joined HIGHER Lab as a visiting scholar to study intergroup political schadenfreude with Dr. Hudson!

Welcome to the Bay, Lilli!

November 11, 2022

HIGHER and DJS Lab gathered for our first lab social at Jupiter in Downtown Berkeley!

October 27, 2022

Analexis, Kiera, and Sylvia each received an EGAL Grant to fund their research projects!

Congratulations! Read about their projects here.

August 24, 2022

Our first cohort of graduate student—1st year PhD students Analexis Glaude, Ockemia Bean, and Sylvia Chin—began their first day at Haas!

Congratulations and welcome!

Sylvia Chin

September 1, 2022

UW-Madison graduate Daniel Sanji started as the inaugural lab manager of HIGHER Lab!

Congratulations!

July 1, 2022

Dr. Hudson began as Associate Professor in Management of Organizations (MORS) at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and HIGHER Lab is born!

Read about it here!