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Jacqueline Quigley
Area: Biopsychology
Advisor: Dr. Jill Becker
Research: I study sex differences in addiction using rats. My research is focused on understanding how gonadal hormones (i.e., estrogen) regulate an individual’s motivation for drugs of abuse (i.e., cocaine).
Caitlin Posillico
Area: Biopsychology
Advisor: Dr. Natalie Tronson
Research: I study sex differences in neuroimmune modulation of learning and memory processes in mice -- in other words, what happens to memory when the brain’s immune system is activated, and how is this similar or different in males and females?
Michael Demidenko
Area: Developmental Psychology
Advisor: Drs. Daniel Keating & Adriene Beltz
Research: I evaluate how self-report, cognitive and fMRI measures of reward processing relate to substance use during adolescence. I also consider how household and community disadvantages impact these behaviors.
Sarah Stilwell
Area: Combined Program in Education & Psychology (CPEP)
Advisors: Dr. Nell Duke & Dr. Kevin Miller
Research: Educational Efficacy -- Project Based Learning, Student & faculty perceptions of digital teaching, Community involvement
Lolita Moss
Area: Developmental (joint with Social work)
Advisor: Dr. Monique Ward
Research: I study how mainstream media exposure influences how adolescents think about understand gender, race, and romantic relationships
Tong Suo
Area: Social
Advisor: Shinobu Kitayama
Research: My research revolves around the sense of self across time and culture (e.g, how people from different cultures remember their past and imagine their future).
Isaiah Sypher
Area: Clinical Science
Advisor: Drs. Luke Hyde and Rosario Ceballo
Research: I study how poverty-related stressors impact families, as well as mechanisms of resilience for families living in poverty. For my research, I use both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Annika From
Area: Personality & Social Contexts
Advisors: Drs. Robin Edelstein & Amie Gordon
Research: I study how differences between romantic partners in personality, beliefs, and social identities influence relationship functioning, and how couples manage these dissimilarities.
Mena Davidson
Area: Biopsychology
Advisor: Dr. Ben Dantzer
Research: I use rodent models to study how environmental factors affect social behavior, specifically the pair bond between monogamous social partners.
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
Nia Nickerson
Area: Combined Program in Education and Psychology
Advisor: Dr. Ioulia Kovelman
Research: I study how diversity in language experiences influence children's academic, socio-cultural, and brain development. I study children who speak multiple languages, such as Spanish-English bilinguals, and children who speak multiple dialects, such as speakers of Standard and African-American dialects of American English.
