Sarah Lapean

Sarah Lapean is a first-year PhD student in the joint program with Psychology and Women & Gender Studies. She is working with Dr. Sara McClelland in the Progress Lab. She earned her BA in English and psychology from Amherst College, where she conducted two honors thesis projects: an exploration of the representations of sexual assault in Victorian literature for White female characters and Black female characters, and an examination of how prejudice is exhibited against non-normative sexual practices through emotions and perceptions of threat. 

She is currently interested in the emotions and morality that inform sexual prejudice and how these factors affect the quality of sex education in the United States.