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 and an excellent environment for learning for all involved:
In our science: Much of our research seeks to identify variation in the way that emotions are experienced and physically embodied across people, including people from different cultures, socio-economic statuses, health statuses, 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 many 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, graduate students’ study via fellowships such as the 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, NIH F99/K00, or OSU President’s Postdoctoral Scholars Program. Please reach out to Dr. Lindquist if you would like to apply for one of these sources of support or if you have come across another that you are eligible for!
We actively educate ourselves and update our practices to reflect the best practices for rigorous, replicable, transparent, and inclusive science and SAFE mentoring and training practices.
In our community: We make our research accessible to people outside the lab through events in the community, popular press articles and podcasts and by working with non-profit science outreach programs.
Lab Handbook and code of conduct
We expect lab members, including undergraduates students, graduate students, staff, postdocs, and the PI, to abide by our lab Handbook and Code of Conduct in their scientific practices and interactions with one another.