People

Principal Investigator

Jessica Remedios

Jessica D. Remedios, PhD

Faculty Profile   Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Jessica Remedios is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Identity and Stigma Lab (SISL) at Tufts University. She received her PhD in experimental social psychology from the University of Toronto in 2012. Dr. Remedios' research aims to understand the impact of stereotypes on stigmatized group members under conditions of complexity. As such, she focuses on how people with more than one stigmatized group membership are perceived and how these individuals cope with the multiple forms of prejudice they face.

In one line of work, Dr. Remedios explores how stigmatized people are perceived by others. She is interested in how one identity (e.g., gender) may affect how perceivers process information and use stereotypes about another identity (e.g., race) during person perception. Dr. Remedios also examines how individuals who have multiple stigmatized identities cope with facing more than one form of discrimination. Specifically, she aims to understand how having multiple stigmatized identities affects psychological and behavioral outcomes in targets. In both lines of work, Dr. Remedios uses social-cognitive methods to assess controlled and automatic attitudes that people hold about themselves and others.

Graduate Students

Isha Smith-Ramakrishnan

Isha Smith-Ramakrishnan

Education

PhD Expected 2028, Tufts University, Social Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Remedios, PhD

BA 2022, Skidmore College
Major: Psychology with a minor in Music
Advisor: Dr. Leigh Wilton, PhD

Research Interests

Isha is primarily interested in studying social perception with a focus on multiracial identity; specifically, she is interested in feature-based social perception, and what effects the intersection of possessing multiple minoritized racial identities in addition to other stigmatized identities (i.e., gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, etc) have on racial categorization processes.

Curriculum Vitae

Jada Copeland

Jada Copeland

Education

PhD Expected 2025, Tufts University, Social Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Remedios, PhD

BA 2020, William & Mary
Major: Psychology with a minor in Sociology
Advisor: Dr. Cheryl Dickter, PhD

Research Interests

Jada is mainly interested in studying the presence of systemic racism in academia, mental health systems, and other institutions and how possessing multiple stigmatized identities affect how people are treated in these institutions. She is also interested in understanding the lack of the acknowledgement of race in psychology research and how this affects the generalizability of psychological science.

Curriculum Vitae

Maria Garay

Maria Garay

Education

PhD Expected 2023, Tufts University, Experimental Psychology (Concentration: Social)
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Remedios, PhD

BS 2017, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Majors: Psychology with a minor in English (Cultural Studies)
Associates in Arts, 2015, Kapi'olani Community College

Research Interests

Maria is primarily interested in perceptions of various multiracial groups (e.g., Black/White vs. Black/Hispanic) and their social position in society. Specifically, how are multiracial groups viewed as different or similar to each other by others and how does that affect their navigation through a diversifying world.

Curriculum Vitae

Lab Alumni

  • A. Chyei Vinluan (PhD, 2021), Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University