People
Members and affiliates of the APC Lab.
Dr. Colin Smith is a social cognition researcher and political psychologist. His work focuses on evaluations. Specifically, how do we measure them, how do we change them, and what behaviors do they predict? He is particularly interested in predicting political behavior and the investigating the extent to which political ideologies operate as traits. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology’s Social Psychology area at the University of Florida and the Member-at-large of the Scientific Advisory Board at Project Implicit, where you can go to learn about your own implicit biases. |
Jackelyn Avila is a fifth year graduate student in Social Psychology working with Dr. Colin Smith in the Attitudes and Political Cognition lab. She is a first-generation Latinx college graduate and received her B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno and her M.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida. Her research interests include Latinx political behavior and more specifically, examining how ethnicity, language, and partisanship relate to vote choice. She is currently writing her dissertation, titled "'Vota por mi': Latinxs’ views of politicians’ appeals as genuine vs. Hispandering." In her free time, Jackelyn enjoys crocheting, reading, and watching movies. |
Victoria Colvin is a fifth year graduate student in Social Psychology working with Dr. Colin Smith in the Attitudes and Political Cognition Lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Miami University. Her research interests include political psychology and sexism. She is largely interested in developing interventions that mitigate the harmful effects of gender stereotypes. She is currently writing her dissertation, titled "White and Womanly: How Identity Focus Influences White Women’s Public Policy Support." |
Abhay is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Social Psychology area being co-mentored by Dr. Colin Tucker Smith and Dr. Peter Kvam. He received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of Kansas before starting his PhD journey in the Attitudes and Political Cognition Lab. He is broadly interested in political/moral psychology, statistical modeling and quantitative methods. In his current project in the lab, he is exploring how information gets polarized as a function of the kind of task people are assigned (for example, choice vs. estimation tasks) using simulations, agent-based modeling and empirical studies.
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Eva is a third year international graduate student. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Ithaca College, and a Master's in psychology from New York University. She is interested in understanding what (de)motivates people from partaking in collective action. She focuses on the role of collective hope, social status and justifications of the status quo. She is also interested in how people imagine alternatives to existing socio-political systems. |
Marjorie Prokosch |
Samantha Douglas |
Louis Irving |