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HirtLab RA Caitlyn Leraas was awarded the Robert Weiskopf Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award at the annual psychology department awards ceremony!
Congratulations to HirtLab undergraduate research assistant Kendall Mirise for being honored by the psychology department at the annual awards ceremony!
Jillian presented (yet another!) moral psychology presentation at IU's weekly social psychology seminar!
The HirtLab undergraduate research assistants presented FOUR research posters at the 2025 Midwest Undergraduate Cognitive Science Conference! Pictured left to right: Karin Dag, Paulina Cardenas, Paige Powers, Stephanie Ramirez, Elena Steinhagen, Nicholas DeLuca
At MPA 2025, Sam gave a talk on political identity!
Jillian gave a presentation on the moral intuition and moral reasoning dichotomy at MPA 2025!
Liz presented her research on the podcast method during a poster session at MPA 2025!
Jillian's RAs met for pizza and moral dilemma brainstorming!
CONGRATULATIONS DR. SAMANTHA HEIMAN!! Sam finished her thesis and passed her defense and will join Cornell College as an Assistant Professor of Psychology!
At SPSP 2025, Sam participated in a symposium on “The Role of Trust toward a Cooperative and Sustainable Society”!
During the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual Conference, Jillian gave a talk over morality measurement, served on a panel, and was a judge for the national undergraduate ethics bowl competition!
Along with her presentation, Sam presented a poster at SPSP 2025!
Jillian presented her South Park moral measure presentation at Penn State as part of their Moral Psychology Consortium conference! See the 15-minute presentation here!CONGRATULATIONS ELIZABETH RAY, PHD CANDIDATE!! Liz passed her qualifying exams and officially advanced to candidacy in Summer 2024!
Liz, Sam, and Jillian get coffee and snacks and plan for the upcoming Fall 2024 HirtLab year!
Sam, Jillian, and Ed chat with HirtLab undergraduate RAs Ellen Sanderson, Caitlyn Leraas, Kendall Mirise, and Jack Johanson (pictured left to right) as they presented some of the lab's research at the 2024 Hutton Honors College Poster Fair!
Sam, Jillian, and Liz, along with other social psychology graduate students Andrew White and Antonio Viera hanging out during the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference. It was held in San Diego, California in 2024!Sam, Jillian, Andrew White, and more sing karaoke at the 2024 annual Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago!
Jillian Meyer joins the HirtLab as a graduate student in Fall 2023! She comes straight from getting her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Communication at DePauw University.
In August 2022, we celebrated labmate Samantha Heiman's recent PBS successful qualifying exam defense. Congratulations to Sam and cohort mates Antonio Viera and Erin Freiburger!
Luckily Janelle got pictures of the research assistants on her studies before the pandemic. Pictured here is Karlie Rice, a capstone student and graduating Senior. You will be missed in the lab!
Pictured here are (from left to right) Jamie Frederick (Senior, Capstone student), Anh Luu (Sophomore, Capstone student), Fiona McComas (Senior), and Remi Musselman (Junior). We will miss both Jamie and Fiona!Dr. Hirt and our research assistants dressing up as Ed’s favorite drink for Halloween (2018)
Some of our experiments include the handgrip, a measure of persistence
A drawing done by one of our research assistants years ago. It has stayed in our lab ever since.
Janelle, Julie, and Dr. Hirt with our Group Scholars (2017)
Dr. Hirt, Michal, Julie, Janelle, and Hector at a Pacers game
Janelle, Dr. Hirt, and Julie at Voodoo Doughnut during SPSP 2019
Janelle enjoying the “Oh captain, my captain” doughnut at Voodoo in honor of the lab’s favorite movie, Dead Poet’s Society
“Shoot the moon”- an old game used to measure persistence.“The Last Lab Meeting”
Josh and Lile in Singapore
Dr. Hirt, Lile, Patrick, and Sam at Chuy’s- a lab tradition
