Gabrielle is a graduate student in the social and personality area working with Dr. Jessica Tracy and Dr. Azim Shariff. Originally from the Philippines, she spent a significant chunk of her life in Hong Kong, the United States, and Singapore. Prior to joining the department, she graduated with a B.A. in Psychology (with Honours) from Yale-NUS College in 2018.

Gabrielle is interested in examining how moral emotions and ideologies underlie group processes, intergroup relations, and social justice movements. In one line of research with Dr. Jessica Tracy, she is investigating how group-based emotions like pride, guilt, and shame, could be functional for intergroup reconciliation. In another line of research with Dr. Azim Shariff, she is examining different beliefs about justice and their socio-political consequences.

Tracy, J. L., Ibasco, G. C., & Hohm, I. (in press). Morality, the self, and self-conscious emotions. In K. Vail, D. Van Tongeren, R. Schlegel, J. Greenberg, L. King, & R. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of the Science of Existential Psychology.

Tracy, J. L., Hohm, I., & Ibasco, G. C. (in press). The cross-cultural experience, expression, and function of pride. In U. Hess, S. Hareli, & K. Kafetsios (Eds.), Research Handbook on Culture and Emotion.

Ibasco, G. C., Ahmed, S., Cai, M., & Chib, A. (2024). When experiencing discrimination predicts greater outgroup affiliation: The role of intergroup mobility in moderating rejection-(dis) identification patterns. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 101(2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102004

Ibasco, G. C., Cai, M., & Chib, A. (2023). Nuanced forms of agency: A review of gender, migrants, and mobiles. In X. Pei, P. Malhotra, & R. Ling, (Eds.), Mobile Communication and Women’s Agency: A Story of Potential and Restrictions. Springer.

Ang, M. W. & Ibasco, G. C (2023). The atemporal silence of aesthetics: Transfeminine crossplay as aesthetic resources for genderqueer experimentation in Singapore. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 10(2), 27-49. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.2.0027

Chen, V. H. H. & Ibasco, G. C., (2023). All it takes is empathy: How virtual-reality perspective-taking influences intergroup attitudes and stereotypes. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1265284

Chen, V. H. H., Ibasco, G. C., Leow, V. J. X., & Lew, J. Y. Y. (2021). The effect of VR avatar embodiment on improving attitudes and closeness toward immigrants. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705574

Chib, A., Ang, M. W., Ibasco, G. C., & Nguyen, H. (2021). Mobile media (non-)use as expression of agency. Mass Communication and Society, 24(6), 818–842. https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2021.1970187

O’Keefe, P. A., Horberg, E. J., Sabherwal, A., Ibasco, G. C., & Binti Zainal, A. (2021). Thinking beyond boundaries: A growth theory of interest enhances integrative thinking that bridges the arts and sciences. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 162, 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.10.007

• 2024 Killam Doctoral Scholarship, The University of British Columbia
• 2023 C.D. Howe Graduate Fellowship, The University of British Columbia
• 2023 Kathleen Simpson Memorial Graduate Scholarship, The University of British Columbia
• 2022 Top Paper Award, Mobile Communication Division, 72nd Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference
• 2018 Outstanding Capstone for Psychology Prize, Yale-NUS College