Cuddy, A., Bailey, E., Benniger, A., & Gaither, S.E. (in prep). He posed, she posed: Eye tracking reveals reversals in attention to men vs. women in high- vs. low-power  poses.

Johnson, S.P., Bulf, H., Gaither, S.E., & Valenza, E. (in prep). Apparent motion does not aid in object unity for infants.

Gaither, S.E., Babbitt, L.G., Toosi, N.R., & Sommers, S.R. (in prep). I see mixed people: Biracial exposure reduces colorblindness. 

Professional Presentations

*denotes mentored undergraduate research assistant as presenter

Bailey, E., Cuddy, A.J.C., & Gaither, S. (2012, June). Visual attention to power posers: People avert their gaze from nonverbal displays of power. Poster to be presented to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Charlotte, NC.

Gaither, S.E., & Sommers, S.R. (2012, May). Living with an other-race roommate shapes White’s behavior in subsequent diverse settings. Poster presented for The Symposium for Boston-Area Graduate Students in Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Gaither, S.E., & Sommers, S.R. (2012, April). Having an outgroup college roommate shapes White’s behavior in future diverse settings. Paper presented for the GSC Graduate Research Symposium, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Gaither, S.E., & Sommers, S.R. (2012, January). Having an outgroup college roommate affects future interracial interactions. Poster presented for The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Diego, CA. *Poster award, Second Place

Gaither, S.E. (2011, April). Implicit bias and social exclusion predict ambiguous race categorization. Paper presented at the GSC Graduate Research Symposium, Tufts University, Medord, MA. *Presentation received award.

Miller, A.*, Jimerson, B.*, Gaither, S.E., Schultz, J.R., & Sommers, S.R. (2011, April). I like White kids: Racial constancy knowledge effects children's group preferences. Poster presented at the Tufts Undergraduate Research Symposium, Medford, MA.

Gaither, S.E., Pauker, K., & Johnson, S.P. (2011, March). Biracial and monoracial infants use different scanning techniques for distinguishing own-race faces. Paper to be presented for the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Pauker, K., Gaither, S.E., Schultz, J. (2011, March). Monoracial and multiracial children’s flexible thinking about race. Paper to be presented for the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Gillespie-Lynch, K. Hutman, T., Gaither, S.E., Park, G., Sigman, M., & Johnson, S.P. (2011, March). Differential responsiveness to spontaneous and reinforced joint attention by infant siblings of children with Autism. Poster to be presented for the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada.

Cohen, D.*, Gaither, S.E., Schultz, J., & Sommers, S.R. (2011, March). What do kids know about racially mixed people? A study on face memory. Poster submitted for the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Cambridge, MA.

Gaither, S.E., Slepian, M., Pauker, K., & Sommers, S.R. (2011, January). Ambiguous race categorization is predicted by implicit bias. Poster submitted for The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Gaither, S.E., Schultz, J., Camilo, E.*, & Sommers, S.R. (2010, November). What do children know about racially ambiguous people? Poster to   be presented at the Living Lab Research Summit, Museum of Science, Boston, MA. 

Gillespie-Lynch, K. Hutman, T., Gaither, S.E., Navab, A. Beck-Pancer, D., Sigman, M., & Johnson, S.P. (2010, May). Responding to and learning joint attention: A comparison of infant siblings of children with Autism and typically developing infants. Paper presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Philadelphia, PA.

Gaither, S.E., Pauker, K. & Johnson, S.P. (2010, April). The other-race effect in 3-month old infants—An eye tracking study. Poster presented   at The Greater Boston SACNAS Regional Meeting, Brandeis University.

Gaither, S.E. & Johnson, S.P. (2010, January). Transitions within faces predicts infants’ ability to distinguish other-race faces. Poster presented at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

Gillespie-Lynch, K., Hutman, T., Sigman, M., Gaither, S.E., & Johnson, S.P. (2009, November). How do infant siblings of autistic children and typically developing infants learn to share attention? Poster presented at the Tobii Eye Tracking Conference, University of California, Davis.

Brittian, A.S., Lynch, A.D., Gaither, S.E., & Lerner, R.M. (2009, October). Assessing Ethnic Identity among Diverse Adolescents: Concept, Structure and Implications for Positive Youth Development. Poster presented at the Society for the Study of Human Development Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.

Gaither, S.E., & Johnson, S.P. (2009, May). The other race-effect in infancy. Paper presented at the Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development Annual Conference, University of California, Los Angeles.

Becerra, L., Gaither, S.E., & Johnson, S.P. (2009, May). Does infants’ gender affect the other-race effect? Poster presented at the Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development Annual Conference, University of California, Los Angeles.

Johnson, S.P., Bulf, H., Castaneda, R.S., Gaither, S.E., & Zolfaghari, R. (2009, April). Developmental mechanisms of piecemeal to holistic perception. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Denver, CO.

Gaither, S.E., Pauker, K., Johnson, S.P. (2009, April). The other-race effect in monoracial and biracial three-month-old infants. Paper presented at the Development of Face Perception Pre-conference at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Denver, CO.

Gaither, S.E., Nevado, A.J., Iyer, R. (2008, June).  Diversity-related materials lead to higher positive interactions among preschoolers. Poster presented at the Ninth National Head Start Conference, Washington, D.C. (new data added from previous poster presentation).

Gaither, S.E., Nevado, A.J., Iyer, R., Klein, A., Starkey, P. (2008, May).  Diversity-related materials lead to higher positive interactions among  preschoolers. Poster presented at the Stanford Undergraduate Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

Invited Talks, Panels, Workshops

2012                                                                                                                                                              •Harvard University, So What Are You Anyway: 2012 Conference on Multiracial Identity, Cambridge, MA                                                                                                                                                             •Morgan State University, Interdisciplinary Series: STEM Disciplines and Social and Behavioral Sciences,     Baltimore, MD

2011                                                                                                                                                               •Tufts University, Graduate Student of Color Mentoring Project, Medford, MA                                                •Tufts University, AS&E Graduate School Panel, Student’s Day, Medford, MA                                                •Tufts University, Leadership Alliance, Medford, MA                                                                                        •Eliot-Pearson Children’s School, Anti-Bias Curriculum Meeting, Medford, MA

2010                                                                                                                                                                •Tufts University, Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority, Diversity Education Session, Somerville, MA                        •Harvard University, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA        •Tufts University, Leadership Alliance, Medford, MA

Teaching Experience & Invited Lectures