Keana Richards

Doctoral researcher

University of Pennyslvania

About me

I’m a doctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania combining psychology and statistics to understand how social identity and context affect decisions that alter a person’s health and economic outcomes. You can find the most updated version of my resume here.

Education

PhD in Psychology, 2022

University of Pennsylvania
MA in Statistics, 2021

The Wharton School
MA in Psychology, 2018

University of Pennsylvania
BA in Psychology, 2017

University of Maryland

Recent Posts

How I got a (quantitative) user experience research internship

Since internship applications for next summer are going to be released in the coming months, I’ll share my journey towards getting a quantitative user experience research internship at Google Summer 2021.

Last updated on Sep 16, 2021 12 min read

Making a Presentation in R: Getting started

Many of us have faced this dilemma: it’s the night before a big presentation and you want to make sure you are prepared. However, as you are going through the slides, you notice there is an error in your analyses and you need to update the results on ALL of your slides.

Last updated on Mar 19, 2021 15 min read

How to make your resume/CV in R

Updating CVs/resumes can be a frustrating process, especially when there are multiple versions you may have across time that you need to draw from during the update. In my case, if I want to include an experience on my new CV/resume from when I was in undergrad, I sometimes end up wasting a lot of time just trying to figure out which of the versions of my resume had that information!

Last updated on Oct 18, 2020 17 min read

How to plot grouped data in R using ggplot2

Understanding how outcomes vary based on membership to different groups is useful across many contexts. For instance, it is important to know how the proportion of people who check social media or buy cigarettes at least once a day varies across gender and socioeconomic status.

Last updated on Aug 30, 2020 9 min read

Using Regular Expressions in R to clean data faster

Regular expressions can be used to speed up data cleaning because they automate process of finding a pattern within strings. This can be a huge time saver, especially with larger datasets.

Last updated on Aug 8, 2020 11 min read

Presentations

Data entry, cleaning, and reproducible data management/analysis practices in R

I led a workshop on using the tidyverse for data manipulation during the training for research assistants in the SBSI program.

Apr 17, 2019 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM Stephen A. Levin Building

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Data entry, cleaning, and reproducible data management/analysis practices in R

The effects of voice pitch and race on perceived leadership ability and threat

My first presentation abroad! In Paris of all places. During this conference, I shared results from my MA Psychology thesis.

Mar 1, 2019 11:30 AM — 12:20 PM Palais des congrès de Paris

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The effects of voice pitch and race on perceived leadership ability and threat

Perspective-taking and guilt during interpersonal confrontation against prejudice

Presenting my independent research project with Dr. Jennifer Wessel for the UMD BSOS Summer Scholars program.

Apr 19, 2018 4:30 PM — 5:20 PM Sheraton Grand Chicago

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Perspective-taking and guilt during interpersonal confrontation against prejudice

Papers

The effects of voice pitch and race on perceived leadership ability and threat

For my masters thesis in Statistics, I analyzed the data collected during my first year of graduate school using multilevel modeling. See the associated code and data here. The paper was written in Rmarkdown and should be completely reproducible with the code and data provided!

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How does the division of labor contribute to gender stereotypes and discrimination?

I wrote this theoretical piece to advance to doctoral candidacy in my program, which requires students to demonstrate expertise in a specific area of psychology.

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Perspective-taking and guilt during interpersonal confrontation against prejudice

Paper summarizing the results from my BSOS Summer Scholars research under the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Wessel.

Keana Richards, Jennifer Wessel

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