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Our Lab is part of the Children's Research Laboratory and the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. We research children's social development, with particular emphasis on the origins of social stereotypes. The stereotype we focus on concerns facial attractiveness because it is less well studied and understood than gender or racial stereotypes and because it can be a window through which we might better understand other stereotypes. Because we are interested in the development of stereotypes, we typically study infants and young children.

Dr. Judith Langlois is the Director of our lab. She has been engaged in infant research since her days as a doctoral student. She is now the Charles and Sarah Seay Regents' Professor of Developmental Psychology at UT. She regularly teaches courses on children's social development.

Graduate and undergraduate students who work in our lab help conduct research on the origins and development of social stereotypes in infants, children, and adults. This work includes designing studies, collecting data, analyzing data, and presenting and publishing findings.

Would you like to find out more? Please explore our site to learn more about us and our research. If you have more questions, feel free to Contact Us.

 

Teresa Taylor Partridge, M.S.
Graduate Student

Teresa is a graduate of Baylor University and has a Master's degree in child development from University California Davis . Teresa's primary areas of interest include individual differences infants' social responses to faces, the role of temperament in contributing to infant social interactions, neural functioning as it relates to face perception, and how self-perception relates to attractiveness.

e-mail: tpartridge@mail.utexas.edu

 

Connor Principe
Graduate Student

Connor received his B.A. from Seattle University in 2002 and joined the Langlois Lab in the fall of 2005. His primary areas of interest include the affective antecedents and consequences of experience with faces, behavioral outcomes of differential treatment based on attractiveness stereotypes, and the processing of uncanny facial stimuli in adults and children.

e-mail: principec@mail.utexas.edu



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