Updates from SPARQ

We’re hiring! SPARQ will bring on a new lab manager to join our team beginning in the summer of 2026. Please see below for details about the position and how to apply.

Check out our December 2025 newsletter for updates and highlights from the past year from the SPARQ team and our affiliates. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

Congratulations to our outgoing postdoctoral fellows as they step into their new roles across academia, industry, and community!

Research from Co-Director Hazel Markus and SPARQ affiliates show that poverty-reduction efforts are more effective when they align with local, relational models of agency.

At the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) 2026 conference, our team and affiliates shared new research on racial representation in media and implications for social

Research from Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt and SPARQ affiliates examines how discretionary traffic stops disproportionately impact Black (vs. White) drivers.

Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt has received the James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship from the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

Research from Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues uncovers the different motivations for conservative voting across SES.

Research from Postdoc Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues explores how different concerns about economic inequality predict support to fix it.

Executive Director MarYam Hamedani writes for Psychology Today about how to make intentional culture change.

Co-Director Hazel Markus Has Been Elected to the American Philosophical Society.

New research from Postdoc Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues investigates how attitudes about women can shape responses to intimate partner violence.

New work from Postdoc Efraín García-Sánchez and colleagues shows how highlighting the everyday consequences of income disparities matters.

Lab Manager Sarah Moghaddam is a recipient of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s (SPSP) Undergraduate Student Poster Award.

Executive Director MarYam Hamedani is a fellow for the Association of Psychological Science (APS).

Co-Director Jennifer Eberhardt has been added to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Heritage Wall.

Research from SPARQ investigates how cultural defaults may impact how different countries responded to COVID and what this could mean for future health policy.

Research from Erik Santoro and Co-Director Markus examines how unsolicited, prescriptive advice can make women feel less respected, powerful, and trusting.

Check out our December 2024 newsletter for updates and highlights from the past year from the SPARQ team and our affiliates. Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year!

Scientific American details how SPARQ’s policing work began a decade ago, and where we are now.