Check out this brief commentary written by Dr. Lui highlighting the reproducibility and generalizability issues facing psychological science and how these damage public trust for the discipline. Dr. Lui advocates for the critical importance and urgency of integrating multiculturalism/cultural diversity orientation and open science, and suggests specific ways in doing […]
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We have a new paper published in Substance Use and Misuse. Ability to resist alcohol consumption has been theorized to curb drinking & its neg consequences. This work has been done in primarily White samples. We found Hispanic-White differences in consumption and drinking problems. Drinking refusal self-efficacy explains partially group […]
Congratulations to Dr. Lui for receiving a Small Grant for Teaching Project, funded by the Association for Psychological Science Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science. The study will examine student learning outcomes across teaching practices and curricula in higher education.
Hot off the press in the flagship journal on ethnic minority psychology and cultural diversity science: Open Science and Multicultural Research: Some Data, Considerations, and Recommendations. Credible research is important to promote public trust in science and scientists, and to use the knowledge to understand and help people of all […]
Congratulations to one of our students, Joann Yang, for being selected by the Psychology faculty for the 2022 Senior Award for Outstanding Performance in the Department of Psychology. The faculty members were impressed by Joann’s contributions to the Department, involvement in campus activities that promote student wellness, and her research […]
New publication from our lab! The paper is published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and entitled, Short-Term Changes in Internalizing Symptoms and Help-Seeking Attitudes During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Although psychotherapy can help address people’s mental health concerns–especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many US Americans have experienced heightened […]
Sarah Gobrial received the Junior Scientist Fellowship awarded by the American Psychological Association Graduate Students/Psi Chi Honors Society. The fellowship aims to provide funding for a first- or second-year graduate level project and to offer constructive feedback to select applicants to increase their chances of achieving success with a future […]
Dr. Priscilla Lui was selected as the recipient of the 2021 Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research from the Asian American Psychological Association. The award is given to Dr. Lui for her outstanding achievement in research and scholarship.
Dr. Lui was featured in the inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Newsletter for the Dedman College at SMU. Read the full newsletter: 2021 DC ODI newsletter 1
Congratulations to Olivia Garcia, a former post-bac research assistant in our lab, for admissions to the master’s program clinical mental health counseling at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. She will begin her training in Fall 2021.
Congratulations to Niki Adams, a former ADAPT member and Psychology Distinction student under the mentorship of Dr. Lui, who has been admitted to the Psy.D. program at Pacific University in Oregon. She will start the program in Fall 2021 and train to specialize in clinical practice in clinical health psychology. […]
Congratulations to Shefali Katedia for being awarded the Dedman Hamilton Scholarship to assist Dr. Lui in administering the Social Interactions Study this summer!
Congratulations to Lucy Quezada, a former research assistant and McNair Scholar from our lab, who will be starting her doctoral training in counseling psychology at the University of Georgia under the mentorship of Edward Delgado-Romero. She will have the opportunity of working in the Center for Latino Achievement and Success […]
Dr. Priscilla Lui was invited to participate in an expert panel organized by the Association for Psychological Science and Newswise, on The Psychological Science of Racism. The panelists shared some recent research on how racists beliefs are formed, maintained, and manifested, and how they can be influenced and combated. Video […]
Dr. Priscilla Lui talked with KERA News–North Dallas’ NPR partner–on what fuels the recent bouts of anti-Asian hate incidents and discrimination, the psychological research on the negative impact of racism, and how people and society at large can do to help. Check out the two interview segments HERE and HERE.
Congratulations to our own Kenzie Stonebarger for being chosen by the Department of Psychology faculty to receive the Senior Award for Outstanding Performance. The faculty were extremely impressed by her contributions to the department, involvement in campus activities to promote student wellness, and her research accomplishments. Kenzie has been an […]
Many people have heard the word “microaggression,” but how many understand what it really means, or looks like? Check out an opinion editorial written by Dr. Priscilla Lui. When We Understand Microaggressions in the Broader Context of Systemic Racism, We’ll Make Some Progress
We have a new paper in PLOS ONE, an open-access journal. In this paper, Dr. Lui, former ADAPT members, Shay Berkley and Lauren Sanders, and current graduate student, Savannah Pham, examined how university students judged racial microaggression scenarios. Check out the paper entitled, “Is microaggression an oxymoron? A mixed methods […]
Check out our newest publication in the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse on alcohol use and misuse among Hispanic/Latinx college students living at the United States-Mexico border. ADAPT’s director, Dr. Lui, is the main author on this paper. This is the first study that simultaneously includes Hispanics’ reasons for […]