Tessa Charlesworth, Lab Director
Tessa Charlesworth is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She is also an affiliate of the Cognitive Science Program, the Institute for Policy Research, and the Dispute Resolution Research Center. Tessa tackles the complexity of how our social biases have changed across history and how to durably reduce bias in the future.
Jiyoun (Jennie) Kim, PhD Student
Jennie is a PhD student in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. Her research explores how both organizations and individuals unintentionally (re)produce and maintain inequality and seeks ways to improve educational, professional, and life outcomes for marginalized communities. Specifically, she is interested in studying intra-minority intergroup relations, investigating attitudes and behaviors between different lower-status or minority groups, with a focus on fostering solidarity across diverse communities.
Jonathan Doriscar, PhD student
Jonathan Doriscar is a second-year graduate student in the Social Psychology Ph.D. program and a master’s student in Statistics and Data Science at Northwestern University under the co-mentorship of Dr. Sylvia Perry and Dr. Wendi Gardner. He received his BA from Knox College in psychology and minored in composition & rhetoric. Jonathan utilizes both experimental and computational approaches (i.e., NLP, Machine Learning), to study the role of interpersonal and structural emotion regulation in reducing, producing, and maintaining prejudice.
Anne Zola, PhD Student
Anne is a first-year PhD Student in Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. She uses methods from psychology and data science to examine social inequalities and prejudice. Her research focuses on gender, race, and body size.
Meriel Doyle, Lab Manager
Meriel is a predoctoral empirical research fellow at Kellogg. She recently graduated from the University of Chicago with dual B.A. degrees in psychology and neuroscience. Broadly, she is interested in moral cognition, social media algorithms, AI, and the psychology of collectives. Meriel is co-advised by Professor William J. Brady.
Danila Medvedev, Postdoctoral Fellow
Dan got his PhD from Chicago Booth in Behavioral Science and is now the DRRC postdoctoral fellow at Kellogg. He is interested in how incentive structures prevalent in people’s environments influence how they think and act.
Michalis Mamakos, Postdoctoral Fellow
Michalis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Enlightened Disagreement of the Kellogg School of Management, and holds a PhD in Computer Science. His research addresses challenges in understanding and constructively navigating conflicts that arise in complex social structures, such as social media and organizations. Ongoing projects leverage large language models to build psychologically informed computational measures and depolarize political cross-party conversations.
Faculty co-lab directors @ Northwestern
William J. Brady, Assistant Professor (Management)
Nour Kteily, Professor (Management)
Undergraduate mentees and affilliates
Sarah Borges, Harvard University
Anicole Tan, University of Toronto
Kshitish Ghate, Carnegie Mellon University
Yoav Rabinovich, University of Tübingen
Lab alumni
Silvan Baier, previous lab manager, now a PhD student at Harvard Business School
Nishanth Sanjeev, previous undergraduate mentee, now a software engineer at Amazon
Vaibhav Rouduri, previous undergraduate mentee, now an MSc student in computer science at NYU
Victor Yang, previous undergraduate mentee, now an MD student at Johns Hopkins University