Who are we?
Director, Social Perception Lab
Stefan explores topics at the intersection of social and visual cognition. One of his favorite experimental methods is that of "serial reproduction", akin to the children's game "Telephone", in which participants reproduce a stimulus from memory, and the reproduction is passed on to the next participant. Stefan will finally escape from the private school circuit in Fall 2024, when he starts as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UIUC. He is currently a Principal Researcher at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and has previously received training at Princeton, Yale, and Dartmouth. You can learn more about him at his personal website here.
Graduate Student
Harini is a doctoral student here in the Attention & Perception program. She holds an M.S. in Psychology from Villanova University, as well as a B.Sc. (Hons) in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and an M.Res. from the University of Nottingham, Malaysia. Her research interests include exploring how context influences visual (and speech) perception, computational modelling, and more recently, understanding how ambient or environmental factors such as lighting can influence social judgments of people. In her free time, you can find her cooking and creating yummy treats for the lab, making art, or playing Stardew Valley.