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Hello. I am the director of the Development of Intergroup Social Cognition (DISC) Lab at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. My work looks at the mechanisms that underlie our emerging evaluations of social life with particular emphases on gender diversity and how messages about similarity guide children’s social preferences and inform their inferences about the structure of social groups. I received my Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Yale University, where I worked with Dr. Yarrow Dunham and Dr. Karen Wynn assessing social cognition in infancy and early childhood. Afterward, I worked as an NSF postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Kristina Olson’s lab at Princeton University, where I explored my interests in gender development among, and prejudice against, gender diverse youth.

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I will review applications for graduate students for the 2025-2026 academic year. If you are interested in applying, please carefully review the information listed here.

Contact me via email at aejordan@wisc.edu.

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I am currently recruiting undergraduate research assistants for fall of 2024-2025. Interested? Apply to work in my lab by clicking here.

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