She also co-authored a book chapter on romantic mate preferences with me and Doug Kenrick, and her most recent project extends this work by examining relationship preferences among understudied populations, including lesbian women.
Strong work, Sophie! đź‘Ź (4/4)
Very excited to share that undergraduate senior and my research mentee, Sophie Verrecchia, has earned the Elon Department of Psychology’s 2026 Research Excellence Award! (1/4)
Very proud of my newest research student, Justice Wilbourn, who will be joining the BORG Lab in Fall 2026. Justice just earned a competitive Sinclair undergraduate research grant to support a project on parental influences on political attitudes (with Dr. Nic Bussberg and me).
Congrats, Justice! đź‘Ź
In the BORG Lab, Sophie has contributed across all stages of the research process—from meticulously coding behavioral videos (across 1,181 variables each!) to developing her own independent projects. (3/4)
Sophie’s work spans both Katrina Jongman-Sereno’s Social and Personality Psychology (SoPeP) Lab and my Wiezel Behavior, Opinions, and Relations between Groups (BORG) Lab. (2/4)
Then, Lindsay Bialecki presented her poster, “Investigating the Impact of Leader Role Models Across Race, Sex, & Political Party,” on her research on the types of role models that influence political ambition, generously supported by a Grants-in-Aid through Elon Univ.
Very proud of all three! (4/4)