Lab News

2025

• Haniya was selected to attend SPSP’s Summer Institute in Social-Personality Psychology at Northwestern University (2025)

• Haniya was awarded SPSSI’s Clara Mayo grant ($500) to continue her work on conspiracy endorsement among marginalized religious and ethnic groups. The Psychology department at CUNY Graduate Center matched the funds she received from Clara Mayo ($500)

• Bryant was awarded the Equity and Social Justice Grant ($500) from CUNY’s The Future Initiative to continue his work on Latine Americans’ perceptions of identity safety and feeling of cultural mismatch in healthcare 

• Bryant was selected to be a Visiting PhD Intern at Princeton University working with Dr. Rebecca Carey at the Adversity and Relationships in Context (ARC) Lab and awarded with a stipend, housing and travel

• Bryant’s poster “The Power of Representation in Healthcare: Examining the Effect of Physician’s Race on Interest in Seeking Medical Care” was accepted for presentation at the SPSP Self and Identity Preconference - Denver 2025

2024

• Dr. Camacho is a Co-PI on a grant awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF), “Implementation and Evaluation Project: Leveraging Social Psychology Interventions to Promote First-Year STEM Persistence”

• Dr. Camacho published a blog for SPSP’s Character & Context Blog: https://spsp.org/news/character-and-context-blog/camacho-college-apparel-defies-stereotypes-racial-profiling

• Dr. Camacho was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Prize at John Jay College. 

• Haniya was selected to be a Junior Scholar at the Stone Center for research on socio-economic inequality and awarded $5000 in fellowship - 2024

• Haniya was awarded the 2024 CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG) to continue her research on conspiracy endorsement. 

• Bryant’s poster “There is no Place Like Home: Exploring Distance & Family Achievement Guilt on College Trajectories” was accepted for presentation at the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) Annual Conference 2024

• Haniya’s poster “They’re out to get us!: Investigating the impact of stigma salience on conspiracy endorsement" was accepted for presentation at SPSP main conference - San Diego 2024 

• Bryant’s poster “Examining Psychological Factors Related to First Generation College Students' Success: The Role of Social Support, Belonging & Family Achievement Guilt” was accepted for presentation at SPSP main conference - San Diego 2024

• Bryant’s poster “Where do I Belong?: Experiences of Epistemic Exclusion & Family Achievement Guilt Among PhD Students” was accepted for presentation at SPSP Self and Identity Preconference - San Diego 2024

•  Bryant’s poster “Proximity Matters?: Exploring Distance & Psychosocial Factors on College Trajectories” was accepted for presentation at SPSSI main conference - Philadelphia 2024

• Bryant’s talk “PhD Challenges: Experiences of Epistemic Exclusion & Family Achievement Guilt” was accepted for a 15 minute talk at SPSSI main conference - Philadelphia 2024

 2023

• Dr. Camacho presented his research on how displaying national symbols on clothing increases the perceived ethnic and civic nationalism of Latino Americans at the 2023 conference for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) in Madison, Wisconsin. 

• Haniya was selected to attend the Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences (SICSS) at NYU-Silver (2023)

• Haniya is co-author on a manuscript accepted for publication at Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, entitled "Of Christians, Jews, and Muslims: When gender is unspecified, the default is men."

• Bryant is a co-author on a chapter recently published in The International Handbook of Gender Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Teacher Expectations (2023)

• Haniya won a $500 travel award support from CUNY  

• Haniya gave an invited talk on Stigma and Conspiracy Endorsement at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell

• Bryant received the CUNY Doctoral Student Research Grant (DSRG)