People: Behavioral Lab: Stanford GSB

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People

Also see our: Affiliated Faculty and PhD Students

Lab Personnel

From L to R:
Caleb Cargle, Nicole Mayer, Melissa Williams, Shadé Brown, Nicholas Hall

Research Officers

Kevin Binning, PhD

personal webpage

binning_kevin "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Kevin Binning's research attempts to understand our experiences as members of social groups. Specifically, he focuses on the reasons why people come to value and engage in groups such as their school, nation, ethnic group, and political group, as well as how that value can then influence when, why, and how individuals engage in group-based conflict. At the GSB, he is collaborating with Prof. Brian Lowery.

Selected Publications

Huo, Y. J., Molina, L. E., Binning, K. R., & Funge, S. P. (conditionally accepted). Subgroup respect, social engagement, and well-being: A field study of an ethnically diverse high school. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Huo, Y. J., Binning, K. R., & Molina, L. E. (in press). Testing an integrative model of respect: Implications for social engagement and well-being. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Binning, K. R., Unzueta, M. M., Huo, Y. J., & Molina, L. E. (2009). The interpretation of multiracial status and its relation to social engagement and psychological well-being. Journal of Social Issues, 65, 35-49.

Melissa Williams, PhD

personal webpage

williams_melissa "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Melissa J. Williams received her Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from Rice University. Her primary research interests center around how people understand and explain inequality between social groups. At the GSB, she is collaborating with Profs. Brian Lowery, Deb Gruenfeld, and Frank Flynn.

Selected Publications

Williams, M. J., & Eberhardt, J. L. (2008). Biological conceptions of race and the motivation to cross racial boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(6), 1033-1047.
Williams, M. J., & Mendelsohn, G. A. (2008). Gender clues and cues: Online interactions as windows into lay theories about men and women. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30(3), 278-294.
Spencer-Rodgers, J., Williams, M. J., Hamilton, D. L., Peng, K., & Wang, L. (2007). Culture and group perception: Dispositional and stereotypic inferences about novel and national groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93(4), 525-543.

Manager

Nicholas Hall, MAPP

hall_nicholas "at" gsb.stanford.edu

Nicholas Hall earned his masters of applied positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, working under Martin Seligman and Christopher Peterson. His research interests focus on occupations and workers engagement with their work, with their co-workers, and with themselves in the context of their job. His other area of interest is values and strengths, conscious and implicit decision making, and meaning-making in work.

Selected Publications