Xuechunzi Bai joined the Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2024. Dr. Bai obtained her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Psychology and Public Policy with a certificate from Statistics and Machine Learning. She studies dynamic social minds: the interplay between individual decision processes and societal phenomena in the field of social cognition. One direction explores various aspects of human stereotyping; its historical antecedents, cognitive mechanisms, and societal consequences.