Department of Psychology

Dissertations and Job Placements, 2015-2019

2019

Cole D. Ayasse

Dissertation: "The Eyes as a Window to Speech Comprehension: Effects of Cognitive Aging and Hearing Acuity on Processing Speed and Listening Effort"

Employment: Clinical Outcome Assessment Scientist, Critical Path Institute

Veronica Lee Flores

Dissertation: "The Experienced Palate Is a Smart Palate: A Behavioral and Neural Investigation of the Impact of Incidental Taste Experience on Future Taste Learning in Female Long Evans Rats"

Workplace/Position: Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Furman University

Alex Fiksdal

Dissertation: "Assessing Moderators of Cortisol Stress Response Trajectories: A Piecewise Hierarchical Modeling Approach"

Workplace/Position: Clinical Data Scientist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

2018

Yuliya Kuras

Dissertation: "Childhood Adversity and Multisystem Stress Functioning: From the Intracellular Level to the Cognitive Level"

Workplace/Position: Project Manager, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Laura Paige

Dissertation: "Investigating the Effects of Lying on Memory"

Workplace/Position: Senior Analyst, Applied Marketing Science

Sujala Maharjan

Dissertation: "The Effects of Repetition and Spatial Arrangement on the Extraction of Ensemble Statistics"

Workplace/Position: Research Analyst, Decision Resources Group

Stephanie Robinson

Dissertation: "Perceived Control and Cognition: A Multimethod Approach to Exploring Physical Activity as a Mechanism"

Workplace/Position:Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine 

Previous: Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Luke Hanlin

Dissertation: "The Effects of Dietary Restriction on Physiological Stress Systems"

Workplace/Position: Project Manager II, Sanofi

2017

Nicholas Brisbon

Dissertation: "Mindfulness in Relation to Stress, Intrusive Thinking, Sleep Quality and Memory"

Workplace/Position: Psychiatric Clinician, Psychiatric Emergency Department, Boston Medical Center

Franklyn Graham

Dissertation: "Sexual Psychopathy: The Role of Attention and Reward Related Deficits"

Workplace/Position: User Research, X-Box

Sonja Krstic

Dissertation: "Psychopathy and Sexual Aggression: Etiology, Variants and Management Implications"

Workplace/Position: Lecturer, Brandeis University

Carrie Robertson

Dissertation: "Psychopathic and Sexually Sadistic Cognitions, Traits and Behaviors: Relations With Biomarkers and Stress Responses"

Workplace/Position: Assistant Director of Admission and Title IX Administrator, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brandeis University

Salom Teshale

Dissertation: "Short- and Long-term Change in Selective Optimization With Compensation Strategies and the Relationship to Well-Being and Stress in Adulthood"

Workplace/Position: Advanced Training Fellowship in Rehabilitation Policy Research, University of Washington

2016

Jasmine Boshyan

Dissertation: "In Your Face: Examining Mechanisms of Accurately Perceiving Threat From Faces"

Workplace/Position: Senior Clinical Research Associate, Leica Biosystems

Sarah Lupis

Dissertation: "Assessing Associations Between Self-conscious Emotion and Cortisol Stress Responses: Influences of Development and Culture"

Workplace/Position: Psychology Department and Graduate Program Coordinator, Brandeis University; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

Alexander Sacha Panic

Dissertation: "Visual and Vestibular Contributions to the Perception and Control of Dynamic Spatial Orientation"

Workplace/Position: Co-founder, Gamayun Scientific

2015

Kenneth Pitts

Dissertation: "Determinants of Cortisol Signaling"

Workplace/Position: Research Scientist, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Danielle Gianferante

Dissertation: "Age and Sex Differences in Glucocorticoid Sensitivity of Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Production After Repeated Psychosocial Stress"

Employment: Research Development Support Specialist, Brown University