Lupita is a fifth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience lab under the direction of Dr. David Schnyer. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Business Administration with a Neuroscience certificate from Bethel College in Kansas. As a graduate student, she is a member of the psychology department’s Diversity Committee and mentors undergraduates through the psychology department’s Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program and UT’s IE Pre-Graduate Program.

Lupita’s research interests include the use of neuroimaging methods to examine racial biases in socio-cognitive processes. Her previous research used electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate racial biases in attention and working memory. Lupita’s current research examines how social contexts influence perceptions of racial ingroup and outgroup members, as well as, one’s willingness to interact with racial outgroups. She is also using eye-tracking to examine how the social context influences racial biases in visual attention.

Posters:

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2019, February). Effects of social context on racially biased perceptions of threat. Poster presented at the 2019 Society for Personality and Social Psychology - Social Cognition Preconference Portland, OR.

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2018, September). Attention and memory for racial faces during intergroup contexts. Poster presented at the 2018 ARMADILLO Conference, Houston, TX.

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2018, March). Race for attention: Competing racial stimuli and working memory. Poster presented at the 2018 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, Atlanta, GA.

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2017, June). Effects of racial bias on working memory during competition for attention: An ERP study. Poster presented at the 2017 Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2016, September). Why does the world seem whiter than it is: Examining racial bias using a VSTM task. Poster presented at the 2016 Conference of Ford Fellows, Washington D.C.

Publications:

Gonzalez, G.D.S., & Schnyer, D.M. (2019) Attention and working memory biases to Black and Asian faces during intergroup contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2743. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02743