Ashley E. Jordan

Meet Yiran Fu, a junior from Beijing, China! 🌍 She’s been helping design recruitment materials and creating engaging experiences for participants in the DISC Lab.🧠✨ Yiran aims to pursue a master's degree in learning analytics or data analytics! 🎓

Meet Maria, a sophomore from Verona, WI! She’s excited to be working in developmental and social psychology, helping get our new lab up and running.🧠🔍 Post-grad plans? Maria is aiming for a master’s in industrial/organizational or clinical psychology! 🎓

Meet our Research Assistant, Shayfer Huitt!

Meet our Research Assistant, Lianna Lee!

The DISC Lab is currently recruiting for our active studies! We are looking for children ages 4-6 and 10-12 to participate! Interested? Fill out our form linked below! disclab.psych.wisc.edu/participate-in…

Lots of exciting news this May! One of our UW-research Assistants, now UW-Madison Alumni has been accepted into A Master’s Program at St. Bonaventure! We wish her the best of luck and can’t wait to see what she has accomplished!

Congratulations to lab alumni, Harlan Gunderson! They recently have been accepted to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Master's of Science in Psychological Science program, and will be starting classes there this fall!

Dr. Jordan, and Lab Manager, Sarah Ramsey, had a great time at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference! Sarah presented their first research talk, and afterwards, Dr. Jordan got a chance to catch up with some old friends from the Human Diversity Lab!

Congratulations to our graduating senior, Grace Vella! Grace worked in the DISC Lab for two semesters, and was instrumental to our project development! We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors, and know her confidence and intelligence will take her to great places!

Two students from the DISC lab presented at the 2025 Undergraduate Research Symposium! Kal presented their research talk on group membership and shared preferences in children and Maria presented her poster on children's evaluations of Biracial identity disclosure. Great work!

The DISC Lab has started recruiting!! We’re so excited to get our studies going🥳 🔎 If you’re interesting in having your family participate in fun and meaningful research please fill out our interest form!! ⬇️ Interest Form ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🎉The DISC Lab is Open!🎉 We’re so excited for a new semester 🧠🌎 Our lab is set up, and we can’t wait to welcome families into our space! 👧👦Do you have a little scientist who’d love to get involved? Please fill out our interest form to learn more 👉 forms.gle/TwQiC16wEZX2ZY…

Congratulations to Maria Larson for earning the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Scholar Award 🥇 Given by UW’s Psych Department — OURS is awarded to a full-time undergraduate Psychology major who has shown exemplary contribution to research during their time as an undergrad!

🌟RA Spotlight: Grace Vella🌟 Meet Grace, a Senior from Rockford, IL majoring in Psychology and on the pre-health track 🎓 She is excited to work with our research participants and better understand development 🧠 💡Bonus Fun Fact: Grace started as an Elementary Education Major

🌟 RA Spotlight: Madison Cesafsky 🌟 Meet Madison, a sophomore majoring in Psychology and Legal Studies! She joined DISC lab to build research skills and is excited for upcoming data collection. Fun fact: She’s got a big friendship bracelet collection as a camp counselor! 🏕️✨

🌟 Meet Kal Shary 🌟 Kal is a freshman from Spring Valley, WI, majoring in Psychology & Political Science! She joined the DISC Lab for hands-on experience in developmental psychology & social cognition. 🧠✨ Fun fact: Kal's high school class had only 20 people! 🎓

Meet Julia, a junior majoring in Psychology with certificates in Art Studio and Art History! 🎨 She's currently exploring the cognitive effects of chronic insomnia in older adults. 🧠💤 Julia hopes to take a gap year for more research before pursuing a master’s program!🎓

🎉 Big congratulations to our Post-Baccalaureate Research Assistant, Mikey Jasinski on her new role as a CAT I Behavioral Technician at Family Path Autism!🎉 Your passion and dedication to supporting individuals on the autism spectrum are truly inspiring🌟

@UWPsych @UWMadison is hiring 2 social psychologists, one TT (deadline 9/15/24) and one tenured, open rank (deadline 10/08/24)! Info here: psych.wisc.edu/psychology-dep… RT far and wide! @SESPcon @SPSPnews @SASstudents @affectScience @SPSSI