Our laboratory embraces and encourages diversity in our research topics, practices, and team. We study how emotions differ across people, cultures, contexts, and the lifespan; this research focus means that we must engage in research practices that represent people of all identities, cultural backgrounds, and different contexts in our research. Scientific evidence also suggests that diverse teams do better science, and we welcome and support the careers of lab members of all ages, races, disability statuses, ethnicities, family or marital statuses, gender identities or expressions, languages, national origins, political affiliations, religions, sexual orientations, and socio-economic statuses.

Here are some of the ways we are actively trying to achieve and promote excellent science on the nature of emotion:

  • In our science: Some of our research focuses on identifying variation in the way that emotions are experienced and physically embodied across people, including people from different cultures, people of different ages, and people of different genders and sexes.

  • We are making efforts to ensure that our stimuli and samples are representative of diverse identities and human experiences and we seek to avoid drawing scientific truths from “WEIRD” samples.

  • In our lab: We actively recruit and support the retention of all scientists. We recognize that doing research can take away time from other means of financial support and sponsor RA’s involvement in research through Federal Work Study and/or Carolina Works, graduate students’ study via fellowships such as the Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, or NIH F31 NRSA and postdoc’s continued training through fellowships such as the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH F32 NRSA, or NIH F99/K00. Please reach out to Dr. Lindquist if you would like to apply for one of these sources of support.

  • In our community: We make our research accessible to people outside the lab through events in the community, popular press articles, and by working with non-profit science outreach programs.

Lab code of conduct

  • We expect lab members, including undergraduates students, graduate students, staff, postdocs, and the PI, to abide by a Code of Conduct in their interactions with one another.