Elizabeth Quinn-Jensen, Ph.D.
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hi! I'm Elizabeth (Liz). I am a social psychologist who studies how people use identities and institutions as sources of information to understand uncertain social situations. My research spans three complementary areas: how people distinguish discrimination from merit, how they interpret identity expression among Multiracial and bisexual individuals, and how they respond to organizational policies and public actions. I use experiments, developmental studies, and longitudinal research to better understand how people make sense of an often-ambiguous social world.Currently, I am a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, working with Drs. Stacey Sinclair and Nicole Shelton. I earned my Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Spring of 2025, under the mentorship of Drs. Brenda Major and Zoe Liberman. I was funded by the University of California’s Eugene Cota-Robles Research Fellowship. Before graduate school, I earned my B.S. in psychology from Northwestern University and then served for two years as a lab manager at the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business.