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Eric Hehman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at McGill University and director of the Seeing Human Lab. His research examines the causes and consequences of intergroup prejudices, and how perceptions across group boundaries (e.g., race, gender, sexual-orientation, occupation, etc) contribute to intergroup dynamics. To address these questions, he takes a multi-method approach, incorporating a broad range of behavioral (e.g., computer-mouse tracking, digital face modeling, group interactions) and statistical techniques (e.g., multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, machine learning).

Eric has recently been getting back into figure drawing, after a decades-long hiatus. He's not great.

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Ian received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2026 before joining the lab as a post-doc. He studies why social attitudes change over time, with a focus on societal shifts in moral values and intergroup prejudice. In his work, he combines big data approaches (e.g., time series analyses, geospatial analyses) with traditional methods (e.g., longitudinal studies, experiments) to document, explain, and predict these changes. He enjoys hiking, bouldering, and board games.

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Travis received his MSocSci in Psychology at the National University of Singapore. He is broadly interested in intergroup relations, with a specific focus in prejudice and diversity. Travis integrates big data and geospatial analyses with traditional psychological approaches to understand the true nature of prejudice and identify how intergroup biases can be reduced.

Travis enjoys traveling, comedy, and strategy games (including bridge and mahjong).

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Sahar received her M.Sc. from Université de Montréal. She is broadly interested in intergroup relations, with a particular focus on discriminatory behaviours in the context of social crises. Her research also integrates computational approaches to better understand and predict these phenomena.

Outside the lab, Sahar plays volleyball and hosts many dinners.

Fiona received her BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Her interests lie in the regional variation of psychological phenomena, and how individual beliefs scale into broader patterns of inequality. She hopes to use computational methods to explore how these patterns are distributed across space.
She enjoys board games, making art, and kayaking.​

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Suraiya received her PhD from the University of Toronto, and then further trained in the social psychology area at The Ohio State University. She joined the group at McGill in Fall 2025. Her research takes a social cognition approach to studying stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination using a variety of methods including behavioural studies, computational modeling, fMRI, and eye-tracking. She is interested in the low-level cognitive processes that function to maintain prejudice, inequality, and group hierarchies. She left in summer 2026 to start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg.

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Jeremy received his PhD in summer of 2026. During his time in the lab, Jeremy did foundational work establishing basic psychological needs as a theoretical framework for understanding radicalization and extremism. He also secretly assembled a terrible ancient couch in the lab, which persists.

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Jennifer defended her PhD in the summer of 2026. Her work focused on prejudice as a region-level construct, and how it was related to the prejudice of individuals in that area. Her work also found that visible minorities living in areas with fewer other visible minorities reported greater amounts of discrimination. During her time in Montreal she drained the city of un-knitted yarn.

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Eugene was Eric's second and final transplant from Ryerson University. At McGill, his dissertation tested some early predictions from nascent models of regional prejudice, such as whether people's prejudices changed when they moved into different contexts. Eric tried to teach Eugene how to ride a bike, but failed. He left the lab in 2023 to be a post-doctoral research associate at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs.

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Sally was Eric's first beloved but slightly burned pancake. Originally starting at Ryerson University, she moved to McGill with the lab in 2018. During her PhD, she revealed that the way in which we form impressions of people depends on the groups to which they belong (this process was previously assumed to be more universal). She left the lab in 2022 to pursue her post-doctoral scholarship with M.J. Crockett at Princeton.

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Neil worked in the lab as a post-doc, focusing on how social categories such as race, gender, and age intersect with contextual factors to predict stereotyping and discrimination. Beyond his scholarship, he weathered Montreal during the first few years of COVID, mixed some excellent cocktails, and developed a high-dimensional halfling wizard (Siggy Doublesight). He left the lab to start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in summer 2022.

Lola (pronounced Lolzylolzylolz) served as lab mascot and morale in the six founding years of the lab. She was part bulldog, part drama queen, and all heart. She graduated to the big datacenter in the sky in May 2021.