Mohammad S. Wiswall

@mohammadwiswall.bsky.social

Social Psychology PhD Candidate @ Duke University | B.A. Cognitive Science @ Rutgers University | researching social categorization, stereotyping, identity, and downstream consequences in social outcomes

Great to see our lab presenting such important research. Proud of my lab mate and alum!

Duke Identity and Diversity Lab@dukeidlab.bsky.social · last yr.

The lab had a great time @spssi.bsky.social! @mohammadwiswall.bsky.social presented new data looking at multiracial Asian identity denial, @kirbylam.bsky.social discussed new masculine norm work, and lab alum @adamstanaland.bsky.social presented his newest work on masculinity too! #spssicon25

Imagine if every scientist published an op-ed in their hometown paper showing how their community sparked their curiosity & shaped the research that's now changing the country? That's what @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is promoting—collective action, one story at a time. doi.org/10.1038/d415...

How we’re battling Trump’s science cuts across small-town America

Neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.

nature.com

Brand new paper in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social from the @dukeidlab.bsky.social 🤩 We are among the first to test cross-culturally how Asian American and Chinese Nationals categorize racially ambiguous biracial faces!! #psychology

Mohammad S. Wiswall@mohammadwiswall.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to announce my first first authored paper has been published online at JESP with Drs. @sarahegaither.bsky.social and @jackiemchen.bsky.social! We used a cross cultural sample to test two theories about racial ambiguity categorization. The preprint will be on OSF soon!

As a part of the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social movement, I wrote an op-ed back home to Trenton NJ. Here I highlighted a little bit about my own journey and why it would not have been possible without federal investments into the STEM infrastructure by the NIH and NSF.

Guest Oped: Why New Jersey must advocate for science

The funding cuts proposed by the current administration will slow the scientific research in New Jersey and the economic growth that comes with investing in our educational and scientific instituti…

trentonian.com

The AAUP wholly condemns this punitive weaponization of federal grant funding. This attempt to discipline & control a university campus is a transparent hallmark of authoritarian rule & harshly violates the central mission of education to serve the public good. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

White House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia

The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

nytimes.com

About me: I am a PhD Candidate at Duke University in Social Psychology studying how we make sense of ourselves and others while measuring stereotyping, categorization, identity and other factors. Outside of research I enjoy film photography, jiujitsu, coffee, and a plethora of other hobbies :)

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