Randy T. Lee

Hello, my name is Randy.

I am a PhD candidate in Social and Personality Psychology and Cognitive Science at Cornell University and a Graduate Resident Fellow at Carl Becker House working with Vivian Zayas, Cindy Hazan, and Tom Gilovich. 

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​My research is focused on understanding social belonging and exclusion across different levels, including the interpersonal, group, institutional, and systemic. Specifically, I study (1) the automatic and deliberate ways emotions are socially regulated, (2) ambiguous social dynamics, and (3) strategies to enhance social connection and mitigate social disconnection.

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In another line of work, I am interested in metascience and methodology. In this domain, I research how perceptions of research findings change depending on how they are presented, and how to best identify and quantify situational features that are most "psychologically active" for a given person. 

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Previously, I attended UC Berkeley and earned my BA in psychology with high distinction. After graduating, I was the lab manager for the joint Ozlem Ayduk and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton Lab at UC Berkeley from 2016 to 2018.