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Current Ph.D. Students

2003-2004 Cohort
 
Janette Alison
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Oscar Gonzalez
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Tiamoyo Peterson
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Edwin Tan
Interests:  fathers;  children's achievement and adaptation to school;  education;  work-family issues;  families;  cross-cultural psychology;  social policy
 
 
2004-2005 Cohort
 
Scott Blum
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Natasha Emmerson
Interests:  childhood behavior disorders;  developmental psychopathology;  physical activity/exercise and affect;  health psychology
 
Jared Lessard
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James Mackay
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Kara Thorsen
Interests:  early detection of autistic spectrum disorders;  parental training to improve parent's recognition of typical and atypical behaviors in infancy.
 
Peggy Zoccola
Interests:  rumination and worry;  stress, coping and health;  sleep;  cortisol
 
 
2005-2006 Cohort
 
Maryam Abdullah
Interests:   early identification of developmental delays in infants;  early developmental trajectories among children with autism;  various indicators of autism;
 
Carrie Carmody
Interests:  identity development and social relationships in virtual networks;  internet addiction and social networking sites;  the role of affect in cognitive goal disengagement; 
 
Alexia Cooper
Interests:  children and the legal system;  Psychology and the law;  jurors' perception of child witnesses;
 
Erin Kelly
Interests:  adjustment to incarceration by juveniles;  mental health policy;  institutional violence;  and occupational burnout;
 
Spassena Koleva
Interests:  morality;  political ideology;  attachment and intimate relationships;  love and attraction;  cultural psychology;
 
Sarah Manchak
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Andrew Mastronarde
Interests:  morality, politics, values, persuasion, disagreement, consensus building
 
Elizabeth Shulman
Interests:  developmental factors that influence adolescents' engagement in, abstention from, and desistance from risky and antisocial behavior.
 
David Tannenbaum
Interests:  inference, uncertainty, and choice;  moral judgment and decision-making;  interface between public policies and individual decision-making;
 
2006-2007 Cohort
 
Kyle Chang
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Eileen Haddad
Interests:  adolescent development in the social and academic context;  ethnic and cultural differences in achievement
 
Matthew Hunt
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Patrick Kennealy
Interests:  personality disorders such as psychopathy;  externalizing behaviors including violence and aggression;  and risk assessment;
 
Sue Lam
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Gloria Luong
Interests:  emotion regulation;  social relationships;  adult development and aging;
 
Agnes Ly
Interests:  autism and developmental disorders;  family functioning;  fathering;  special education;
 
Kally Nelson
Interests:  examination of false memories and the implications for real-world cases;  jurors' perceptions of expert witnesses;
 
Preston Reed
Interests:  ADHD;  quantitative analyses;  stigma;
 
Yanyan Zhang
Interests:  morality;  social cognition;  cross-cultural studies; 
 
2007-2008 Cohort
 
Svetlana Bershadsky
Interests:
 
Jeff Cho
Interests:  perspective taking;  judgment heuristics;  social cognition;  cultural differences;
 
Dana Garfin
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Robin Kaplan
Interests:  relationships between emotion and cognition;  how emotion influences memory and judgment;  emotion and false memory;  affective forecasting;  biases in predicted and remembered emotion;
 
Elizabeth Kellstrand
Interests:  memory development in childhood;  children's involvement in the legal system
 
Brittany Liu
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Shayna Marks
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Jillian Peterson
Interests:  offenders with mental disorders;  assessing risk of violence and self-harm;  violence prevention and intervention;
 
Maria Sumaroka
Interests:  developmental consequences of child abuse and neglect;  individual differences in children's socioemotional development;  early adversity and children's stress responses;
 
Joseph Tatar II
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Bernadeth Torres
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Lindsay Wandrey
Interests:  maltreated children's involvement in the legal system;  hate crime and extremism;
 
2008-2009 Cohort
 
Nicole Basehore
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Jordan Bechtold
Interests:  adolescent development;  deliquency;  juvenile justice; 
 
David Busse
Interests:  stress physiology; physical and mental health implications of stress;
 
Cory Clark
Interests:  morality;  religion;  and politics
 
Steven Frenda
Interests:  social cognition, autobiographical memory, psychology and law. quantitative methods
 
Kristen Gamble
Interests:  green behavior;  natural disaster preparation;  social influence;  self-protective behavior;
 
Vanessa Juth
Interests:  health psychology;  behavioral medicine
 
Hannah Kang
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Rebecca Nichols
Interests:  human memory;  psychology and law;  motivated cognition;
 
Christina Pedram
Interests:  influence of culture on individuals' interpersonal and moral judgments;  stereotyping and prejudice reduction;  religiosity;  and implicit attitudes;
 
Michael Russell
Interests:  contextual triggers of early substance use initiation;  gender differences in externalizing psychopathology;  mental health problems among adolescent offenders;
 
Ian Tingen
Interests:  legal issues studied in a psychological framework;  memory distortion in both witnesses and jurors, memory distortion in both witnesses and jurors;  how jurors understanding of self and science shape with verdict-related decisions
 
Marina White
Interests:  learning and research;  health, fitness & wellness;  religion;  exercise;  philosophy;  nutrition;  history;  physiology; 
 

2009-2010 Cohort

Alaine Kalder
Interests:  Children and adolescents involved in the legal system, jurors' perceptions of participants in the trial process, the short- and long-terms effects of abuse
 
Christopher Marshburn
Interests:  race, intergroup relations, awareness and detection of privilege, discrimination, and inequality
 
Jacob Shane
Interests:  Behavioral adaptability throughout lifespan development, particularly during transitional periods.
 
Morgan Voeltz
Interests:
 
Jennifer Williams
Interests:  Health psychology;  stress and coping with chronic illness; resiliance;  emotion regulations across the lifespan
 
Sean Wojcik
Interests:  Political, moral, and religious attitudes
 
Karen Wu
Interests:  Interplay of culture, society, and personality on self-concept, body image, affect, and relationships, including attachment style and love