Our VALUES

Our hope is that our lab acts as a team in which lab members feel supported in their learning, their wellbeing, and their professional development. The members of the lab provide feedback on each other’s writing, help each other navigate new challenges, and celebrate each other's successes. Together, our team maintains a lab manual that communicates shared values, expectations, and guidelines for doing research as a team.

We work together to build community in the lab, in the department, in science, and in higher education. This includes: celebrating everyone's identities, standing up for students and trainees, tackling the hidden curriculum, calling out harmful practices, and working to change them.

To support others who seek to build on or learn from our research, we share stimuli, data, and code on open repositories. To be transparent about our research decisions, we preregister our methods and analysis plans (e.g., on the Open Science Framework), and we identify which analyses are exploratory. To make science more accessible, we share our papers as preprints and on our website.