SPARQ trains scholars to solve real-world problems by bridging basic and applied social psychology.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Rebecca C. Hetey, PhD, is a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in social psychology at Stanford. She studies the association between race and crime, perceptions of the actors and institutions that make up the criminal justice system, and the antecedents and consequences of thinking about race as biological, rather than socially constructed. A native of Queens, New York, she earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University.
Doctoral Fellows
Nick Camp is a doctoral student in social psychology at Stanford. He was drawn to social psychology as a way to take big questions and make them answerable. His research examines the links between the social world and perception--how identities, motives, and environments bleed into how we see and make sense of what's around us.
Rebecca Carey is a doctoral student in Social Psychology at Stanford. Her interest is in the sociocultural shaping of relationships. She seeks to understand how culture can shape how people understand and behave in relationships, and how this in turn can help address real world problems and societal issues.
Eleanor Chestnut is a doctoral student in developmental psychology at Stanford. Broadly, she is interested in how people implicitly communicate information to each other through language. Her work with SPARQ focuses specifically on ways to reduce implicit gender bias.
Alyssa Fu is a social psychology doctoral student at Stanford. She examines how culture shapes motivation, well-being, and other psychological functions. Her work shows the importance of considering how contexts affect human behavior when addressing real-world questions.
Camilla Griffiths is a doctoral student in social psychology at Stanford. She is interested in how people learn about racial identity and racial bias through their interactions with people and institutions, with a particular focus on policing and education. She grew up living mostly abroad, but completed her Bachelor’s degree in Political and Social Thought at the University of Virginia.
Kyla Haimovitz is a doctoral student in developmental psychology at Stanford. Her research examines psychological factors that facilitate learning and achievement. Her work focuses on how parents', teachers', and managers' beliefs and behaviors shape the development of motivation and self-regulation in students and employees.
Kari Leibowitz is a doctoral student in social psychology at Stanford.She is interested in understanding how best to promote mindsets that increase psychosocial well-being, with a particular emphasis on understanding compassionate mindsets in various populations. Her research with SPARQ focuses on understanding and shaping mindsets about health.
Sal Lempert is also a doctoral student in social psychology at Stanford, where she studies how public perceptions of race affect policy decisions. Originally from the Bay Area, she earned her bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavior from Columbia University.
L. Taylor Phillips is a third-year doctoral student in the organizational behavior program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She investigates how people think about and respond to inequality, hierarchy, and privilege, and how their beliefs about race and diversity impact behaviors and perceptions during group interactions. She earned her B.A. in psychology and human biology at Stanford.
