Graduate Students
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Erin Bishop Undergraduate Institution: Hamilton College Erin is interested in the link between parent-child relationships and child aggression and victimization. Her previous research focused on the link between parents' beliefs about aggression and their children's beliefs about aggression and acts of aggression. Currently, she is examining parent strategies for dealing with their children's victimization in high school. . |
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| Hasmik (Jasmine) Boshyan Area: Social Development Lab: Face Perception Advisor: Leslie Zebrowitz Location: Brown 18 Email: jboshyan@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-3278 Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| Brittany Cassidy Area: Social Development Lab: Aging, Culture & Cognition Advisor: Angela Gutchess Location: Brown 24 Email: bcassidy@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-3031 Undergraduate Institution: Boston University Brittany's research uses fMRI and behavioral methods to study the neuroscience of human social behavior and memory throughout the lifespan. Her current work focuses on how encoding context modulates the way people are able to remember impressions of others, and how the neural correlates of impression formation change with increasing age. She is also interested in how different facial characteristics interact with behavioral information when encoding first impressions. |
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Xuejie Chen Undergraduate University: Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine Xuejie is interested in exploring the influence of psychological factors on health. Currently she is participating in a project on how the immune system responds and habituates to repeated acute social stress (TSST) and the difference of these pattern between age groups (young adult and old adult). She is also interested in the role of cognitive appraisal as the moderate/mediator factors between stress and health outcomes. |
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Veronica Flores Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego Veronica's research interests use behavioral methods and electrophysiology to study learning and behavior using rats. Her current work involves the investigation of neural system dynamics and behavioral changes that occur with learning using conditioned taste aversion. She is particularly interested in understanding how and why prior exposure to one stimulus can influence the level of aversion attained to a later novel stimulus. |
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Ashley Geiger Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona |
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Danielle Gianferante Undergraduate Institution: University of MA Amherst Danielle does research in the Health Psychology lab. She is primarily interested in the role that stress hormones have in immune system functioning, particularly as people age. She is also interested in cognitive processes, such as rumination, that can affect hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity. |
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William Goodman Undergraduate Institution: California State University, East Bay |
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Franklyn Graham Undergraduate Institution: Washington State University |
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Nadya Greenberg Undergraduate Institution: Colgate University Nadya is interested in topics related to character trait perception, especially in faces. Her most recent project examined which early visual pathways are related to processing dominance in faces. She has also looked into differences in perceived personality traits for female political leaders from different political parties. |
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Luke Hanlin Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University |
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Sonja Krstic Undergraduate Institution: University of Belgrade |
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Yuliya Kuras Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Yuliya is a member of the Health Psychology Lab. In the past, she has studied the connections between early life stress and negative mental and physical health outcomes in adults. Her current research centers around the effects of psychological and physiological stress on the immune system. More specifically, she is interested in the mechanisms underlying resilience to acute and chronic stress. |
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Amanda Lash Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina at Wilmington Amanda's interests are in perception, cognition, and successful aging. Her work examines the effects of age, hearing acuity, and linguistic context on spoken word recognition. She is currently investigating the interaction between the cognitive and perceptual declines associated with aging. |
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| Monika Lohani Area: Social Development Lab: Emotion Advisor: Derek Isaacowitz Location: Rabb 118 Email: mlohani@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-3240 Undergraduate Institution: M.J.P. Rohilkhand University Monika’s research focuses on studying individual and age-related differences in managing emotions. She has used different measures to assess emotional response including self-report, expression, eye tracking, and psychophysiology. She is interested in understanding more efficient ways of managing emotions through the use of multiple methods. |
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Sarah Lupis Undergraduate Institution: Boston University Sarah's research focuses on investigating the effects of emotion experience on the physiological stress response. She is currently using facial coding analysis to determine the role of self-conscious emotions experienced during an acute psychosocial stressor, and the ways that body esteem may mediate this relationship. Sarah also serves as a phlebotomist for the the Brandeis Health Psychology laboratory. |
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Sujala Maharjan Undergraduate Institution: Wesleyan College |
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| Abigail Noyce Area: Cognitive Neuroscience Lab: Visual Cognition & Neuroscience Advisor: Robert Sekuler Location:Volen 242 Email: anoyce@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-3266 Undergraduate Institution: University of New Hampshire Abby is interested in how people learn and monitor expectations for future events. She uses behavioral methods, eye tracking, and EEG source localization to study how neural activity changes as expectations develop, which systems react when an unexpected event occurs, and how such events influence future learning. |
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Laura Paige Undergraduate Institution: Boston College Laura's past research has used EEG and behavioral methods to study the influence of misinformation in the frequency of false memories. Building off of that, her current work focuses on how influential misinformation is when presented in a social context, particularly within and across cultures. She is interested in how memory strategies can change both individually and within cultural norms when false information comes from another person. |
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Alexander Panic Undergraduate Institution: Technische University Delft Sacha's primary research interest is how the central nervous system uses visual cues, in addition to vestibular and proprioceptive cues, to produce a sense of spatial orientation. He intends to investigate this during his PhD study. |
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Kenneth Pitts Undergraduate Institute: University of Massachusetts Lowell |
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| Michael Polito Area: Social Development Lab: Lifespan Developmental Psychology Advisor: Margie Lachman Location: Brown 3 Email: mpolito@brandeis.edu Phone: 781-736-2797 Undergraduate Institution: SUNY, Fredonia Mike's research focuses on examining anxiety and the biological markers of stress from a social-developmental perspective. He studies both antecedents to stress reactivity, such as trait vulnerability and situational demands, as well as consequences of stress on physical and cognitive health. Mike also does work in the Rohleder/Wolf Health Psychology wetlab, helping to prepare saliva and blood for analysis. |
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Carrie Robertson Undergraduate Institution: Kenyon College Carrie is interested in looking at the characteristics of psychopathic and sadistic sexual offenders. For her Master’s thesis, Carrie addressed the predictive nature of the psychopathy facets and sadism in both sexual and non-sexual violence. |
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Stephanie Robinson Undergraduate Institution: Elon University Stephanie is interested in cognition and successful aging. Specifically, she is interested in factors that affect cognitive declines that accompany aging and how they can be modified to prevent, delay, or ameliorate such declines. |
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Yile Sun Undergraduate Institution: University of California at Davis |
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Salom Teshale Undergraduate Institution: University of Chicago Salom is interested in decision-making across the lifespan, specifically strategies and methods older adults use to make life decisions. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Psychology; her undergraduate work focused on the role of emotion in autobiographical memory accuracy in older adults.
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Master's Degree Candidates
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Sarah Bassett Undergraduate Institution: University of Kansas |
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Anna Carmichael Undergraduate Institution: Texas A&M University |
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Andrew Erhart Undergraduate Institution: Washington University in St. Louis |
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Margaret Fahey Undergraduate Institution: Boston College |
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Katherine Finkelstein Undergraduate Institution: Muhlenberg College |
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Jacob Lehrhoff Undergraduate Institution: Wesleyan University |
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Irina Orlovsky Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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Cecelia Palow Undergraduate Institution: University of Maine at Farmington |
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Megan Wing Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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