2003-2004 Cohort
Janette Alison
Interests:
Oscar Gonzalez
Interests:
Tiamoyo Peterson
Interests:
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
Interests:
Natasha Emmerson
Interests: childhood behavior disorders; developmental psychopathology; physical activity/exercise and affect; health psychology
Jared Lessard
Interests:
James Mackay
Interests:
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
Interests:
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
Interests:
Eileen Haddad
Interests: adolescent development in the social and academic context; ethnic and cultural differences in achievement
Matthew Hunt
Interests:
Patrick Kennealy
Interests: personality disorders such as psychopathy; externalizing behaviors including violence and aggression; and risk assessment;
Sue Lam
Interests:
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
Interests:
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
Interests:
Shayna Marks
Interests:
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
Interests:
Bernadeth Torres
Interests:
Lindsay Wandrey
Interests: maltreated children's involvement in the legal system; hate crime and extremism;
2008-2009 Cohort
Nicole Basehore
Interests:
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
Interests:
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