Alumni

Shiloh Sumanthiran (Class of 2019)

 Major: Psychology and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology and Social Psychology

Rongzhi (Maria) Liu (Class of 2018)

 Major: Psychology
Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology

Anna Scheibmeir (Class of 2018)

 Major: Psychology and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Cognitive Psychology and Psycholingustics

Sean Woodruff (Class of 2018)

 Major: Cognitive Science
Areas of Interest: Psycholinguistics, Political Psychology, and Conceptual Metaphors

Sangeeta Subedi (Class of 2018)

Major: Psychology and Education
Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology

Amy Gilligan (Class of 2018)

Major: Psychology   Minor: French
Areas of Interest:  Social Psychology, Educational Psychology & Clinical Psychology

Grant Torre (Class of 2017)

 Major: Film and Media Studies, Psychology
Areas of Interest: Development of social categories, imitation, effect of race and culture on social categories

Jasmyne Kim (Class of 2017)

Major/Minor: Neuroscience, Biology
Areas of interest: cognitive psychology, social psychology, and evolution

Will be assisting with research, recruiting participants, administrative aspects of the lab, and experiments.

Briana Cox (Class of 2017)

Major: Special Major in Cognitive Science with Psychology and Linguistic focus
Areas of interest: building and understanding language, and the creation and perception of art from a cognitive standpoint–Does art offer insight into human cognition?

Jordan Sciascia (Class of 2017)

Major: Linguistics and Linguistics and Education
Areas of Interest: Language, bilingual research and education, first and second language acquisition

Cynthia Siego (Class of 2017)

Major: Psychology
Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology, Psychology of Language.

Sona Kumar (Class of 2017)

Major: Psychology
Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience

Special Majoring in Psychology and Educational Studies, Minoring in Linguistics Areas of interest: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Social/Cultural Psychology, and how the three interact to influence the course of mental disorders Will be assisting research, laboratory administration, and running experiments.

Alexander Noyes (Class of 2015)

Honors Psychology Major with Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor Areas of interest: social/cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and the psychology of gender. Specifics of Research: My current research explores children’s inductive reasoning (using a sample of evidence to draw larger conclusions); specifically, their ability to distinguish between better (more informative) and worse (less informative) samples or evidence. Examples of questions I ask: Do the categories represented in the sample matter (e..g, whether its people, animals, or objects)? Does the object of their inductive reasoning matter (e.g., whether they’re reasoning about biological properties, behaviors, or preferences)?

Chris Capron (Class of 2015)

Majoring in Honors Psychology with an emphasis on languages and a minor in English Literature Areas of Interest: Language acquisition, multi-lingual speakers Specifics of research: Learning by comparisons and levels of similarity between stimuli

Catherine Xiang (Class of 2015)

Major: Neuroscience
Areas of interest: neural mechanisms that underlie social behaviours, disorders involving abnormal social cognition during development, autism, multi-lingual speakers, cultural neuroscience

So Yeon Shin (Class of 2015)

Special Majoring in Psychology and Educational Studies
Areas of interest: Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, English as a Second Language (ESL) Specifics of research: Executive functioning system of bilingual children, analogical reasoning in bilinguals

Lauren Mirzakhalili (Class of 2015)

Special-Majoring in Psychology & Educational Studies major with Peace & Conflict Studies minor
Areas of interest: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology

Victoria Yam (Summer Intern)

Cameron French (Class of 2014)

Honors Psychology major, with a double-minor in Cognitive Science and Classics Areas of Interest: language acquisition and how that affects concept development in early life, and what that means for cognition throughout a speaker’s lifetime, as well as decision making and judgement in adults

Kelsey Huntberry (Class of 2014)

Graduated with a double major in psychology and political science.Will be attending Washington University in St. Louis in the fall to pursue a masters degree in public health. Areas of Interest: Clinical and developmental psychology, theory of mind, decision making and comparison, and the development of psychological disorders Will be assisting with research, laboratory administration, and participant recruitment.

Caitlin Sequira (Class of 2014)

Double majoring in Psychology and Asian Studies Areas of Interest: Developmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social/Cultural Psychology, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Engineering Psychology/Ergonomics. Specifics of Research:Analogical Reasoning in Bilingual Youth.

Rachel Fresques (Class of 2014)

Majored in Psychology and Minored in English Literature, Rachel graduated with High Honors and received the Solomon Asch Award.

Zach Murphy, BA (Class of 2014)

Majoring in Psychology Areas of interest: Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, specifically concept and language acquisition Specifics of research: the effect of social similarity on the specificity of imitation during imitation learning