I am Bai (pronounce like bye)!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology, affiliated with the School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Cognitive Science, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University.
I study dynamic social minds: the interplay between individual decision processes and societal phenomena in the field of social cognition. My current work explores the psychological origins of social stereotypes. You can learn more about my work by reading [Research] and [Teaching] Statements, or [this] paper.
I will join the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, starting in July 2024 [CV].
I am Bai (pronounce like bye)!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology, affiliated with the School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Cognitive Science, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University.
I study dynamic social minds: the interplay between individual decision processes and societal phenomena in the field of social cognition. My current work explores the psychological origins of social stereotypes. You can learn more about my work by reading [Research] and [Teaching] Statements, or [this] paper.
I will join the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, starting in July 2024 [CV].
I am Bai (pronounce like bye)!
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Psychology, affiliated with the School of Public and International Affairs, the Program in Cognitive Science, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning at Princeton University.
I study dynamic social minds: the interplay between individual decision processes and societal phenomena in the field of social cognition. My current work explores the psychological origins of social stereotypes. You can learn more about my work by reading [Research] and [Teaching] Statements, or [this] paper.
I will join the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, starting in July 2024 [CV].
Xuechunzi Bai 白 雪純子
I am a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology, the University of Chicago. I study dynamic social minds: the interplay between (micro) individual decision processes and (macro) social structures in the field of social cognition [CV].
My Ph.D. work, advised by Drs. Susan Fiske and Tom Griffiths, explores psychological origins of social stereotypes; how individual-level exploratory behaviors lead to societal-level stratification.
You can learn more about my current and future research by reading [research] statement or [this] paper, and about my mentorship in [teaching] statement. If you are students who would like to work with me, please read this [doc] for project ideas.
Selected Publications
(see a full list from [Google Scholar] page)
Explicitly unbiased large language models still form biased associations.
Bai, X., Wang, A., Sucholutsky, I., Griffiths, T. L. (2025).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[paper][data & code][slides]
Aligned but blind: Alignment increases implicit bias by reducing awareness of race.
Sun, L., Mao, C., Hofmann, V., Bai, X. (2025).
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, Main). [project site]
Costly exploration produces stereotypes with dimensions of warmth and competence.
Bai, X., Griffiths, T. L., Fiske, S. T. (2024).
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
As diversity increases, people paradoxically perceive social groups as more similar.
Bai, X., Ramos, M.R., Fiske, S. T. (2020).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[paper][data & code][slides]
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