BEST Lab Undergraduates Receive Summer Research Funding

Congratulations to Selen Divanlioglu, Jae Ji, Sophia LeBlanc, and Suin Lee—undergraduates in the BEST Lab—who received funding from the Harvard College Research Program to pursue independent research projects this summer!

Selen, a rising senior in the lab, received funding to support her senior honors thesis, which will employ an experimental paradigm to examine how stigma contributes to gender differences in emotion recognition.

Jae and Sophia, also rising seniors in the lab, were awarded funding to live in the Undergraduate Research Village this summer while working on their senior honors theses. Jae’s thesis will include three studies that leverage the study of stigma to test and refine existing conceptualizations of resilience. Sophia’s thesis will examine individual and relational mechanisms that underlie the link between sexual violence stigma and women’s mental health outcomes.

Suin, a rising junior, also received funding to live in the Undergraduate Research Village while conducting her own independent research project in the lab this summer. Suin’s project will test whether structural weight stigma moderates the efficacy of a mental health intervention promoting body neutrality.