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Briana Scott
Area: Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Marc Zimmerman
Research: I study ways to improve the climate of K-12 schools to create safe spaces for students of all backgrounds.
Ivette Gonzalez
Area: Biopsychology
Advisor: Dr. Jill Becker
Research: I study how exposure to methemphetamine affects dopamine release. I also look at how social housing plays a role in self-administration of methemphetamine in rats.
Brianna Ross
Area: Personality & Social Contexts
Advisor: Dr. Fiona Lee
Research: My research examines how Black folks' experiences of discrimination and intersecting identities (e.g., ethni-racial identity) influence their engagement with collective action and well-being strategies.
Hannah Becker
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Kate Fitzgerald and Dr. Christopher Monk
Research: I study psychotherapeutic treatments for anxiety and OCD in youth. I mostly use neuroimaging tools to examine brain changes that occur with, or predict response to, these interventions.
Lindzey Hoover
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Ashley Gearhardt
Research: I study whether highly-processed foods (high in refined carbohydrates and/or fats) can be addictive (i.e., food addiction). I'm also interested in shared risk factors (e.g., trauma, family history) and co-occurrence between food addiction and traditional substance use disorders.
Tong Suo
Area: Social
Advisor: Dr. Shinobu Kitayama
Research: I study self-concept and well-being in cross-cultural contexts. A good proportion of my research focuses on the cultural comparison between East Asian and 'WEIRD' (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Democratic; e.g., middle-class European American) cultures, but I recently also started a collaborative project which extends the scope of my research to Sub-Saharan African population. I hope to combine surveys, experiments, and data-driven methods to investigate the complex dynamics between individuals and their socio-cultural and ecological contexts
Jessica Bezek
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Dr. Luke Hyde
Research: I study how early life adversity influences brain development and risk for mental illness, with a particular focus on identifying neural mechanisms that support resilient outcomes in youth experiencing neighborhood disadvantage.
Carly Lasagna
Area: Clinical Science
Advisors: Dr. Ivy Tso and Dr. Tim Pleskac
Research: Using computational modeling and neuroscience methods/approaches (e.g., EEG, fMRI), I study differences in the neural and cognitive mechanisms of perception and decision-making in individuals with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and how these relate to real-world functioning.
Ana Patricia Esqueda
Area: Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Vonnie McLoyd and Dr. Lorraine Guitierrez
Research: My research explores how systems of oppression- namely those that devalue members of low socioeconomic status or racial minorities- impact the linguistic and social development of Latinos.
Kathy Xie
Area: Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Dr. Patricia Reuter-Lorenz
Research: I study the relationship between working memory and episodic memory and how individual differences or cognitive aging may affect that relationship
Maddie Quirk
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Advisor: Dr. John Jonides
Research: Influence of selection history and distractor regularities on mitigating distraction in ADHD.
Brittani Parham
Area: Joint Social Work and Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Joseph Ryan and Dr. Vonnie McLoyd
Research: I study the intersection of developmental pathways of juvenile delinquency within the family context of African Americans: in particular the roles siblings play as a potential protective factor against aggression, delinquency, and lack of emotional regulation.
