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Tara Augenstein

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am currently a first-year graduate student working with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes. My research interests include the assessment of severe psychopathology and self-injurious behavior in children and adolescents. More specifically, I am interested in the development of refined, multi-method approaches for the early identification and assessment of maladaptive behaviors and severe mental illness in youth. Additionally, I am interested in observed discrepancies between multi-informant ratings of child psychopathology (for example, when parent- and teacher-reports of a child's symptoms disagree) and how best to reconcile these inconsistent reports to inform clinical care and treatment planning.

301-405-8899
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Anne Banducci

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a graduate student in clinical psychology working in the CAPER Lab. My research interests span three interrelated domains: psychopathology, addiction, and evidence-based therapy. I would like to integrate these interests by examining treatments beneficial to individuals with dual diagnoses. I graduated from Brown University in 2008 with a B.S. in psychology. My undergraduate thesis focused on how counselors understand behavior changes in emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children in a residential treatment program.

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Jocelyn Belanger

Graduate Student

Current Research : Over the past few years, my research has focused primarily on the motivation-cognition interface and its influence on human goals. One intriguing aspect of human motivation is that people are often propelled to go to great lengths to support a given cause, even if it means suffering or even dying for it. My research seeks to understand why, and under which circumstances, individuals are willing to sacrifice their lives for a cause. Additionally, Im interested in how we can redirect these motivational forces in a constructive direction, paving the way to conciliation, conflict resolution, and harmony in intergroup relations.

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Maria Berbery

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am currently conducting research on transracial adoptive families. In particular, I am studying predictors of White adoptive parents' cultural and racial socialization of their Asian children. I am interested in learning about why adoptive parents do or do not teach their child about their race and culture of origin. My research interests also include Latina/o mental health, immigrant families, and social justice. This year I will be externing at the University Parent Consultation and Child Evaluation Service (UPCCES) at the University Counseling Center. I am also interested in clinical work with Spanish-speaking immigrants.

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Lauren Boyatzi

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research interests mainly focus on terrorism; one current project is a qualitative examination of propaganda video transcripts produced by Al Qaeda and affiliates. My dissertation examines the relationship between need for closure and revenge and specifically studies the how low need for closure individuals are able to counteract the accessibility of revenge following a transgression. I am a participant of the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service program.

301-405-0009
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Bonnie Brett

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research interests include the formation of joint attention in infants, as well as individual differences in joint attention in both children and adults. Particularly, I am interested in seeing how the emotional valence of stimuli influence what mother - infant dyads choose to attend to, both jointly and individually. I am also training in the of uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the interaction between our actions and the activation of specific areas in our brains. I hope to use this technique to further explore individual differences in responses to emotional stimuli.

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Harold Chui

Graduate Student

301-405-8441
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Anahi Collado-Rodriguez

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a third-year graduate student working with Drs. Carl Lejuez and Laura MacPherson. While completing my undergraduate education in Florida International University, I worked in the Youth and Family Development Project and the Industrial and Organizational Lab under the supervision. After graduating in 2004, I spent 4 years working at a NIH-funded research and development company whose main focus was to develop technologies to address unhealthy behaviors. I had the opportunity of managing studies on smoking, HIV, insomnia, real-time data collection methods, and the development of training manuals for substance abuse counselors. My current research interests focus on exploring minority groups and adolescents risk factors with regard to addictions and psychopathology, modifying intervention strategies or creating alternative approaches for treatment to fit the needs of these groups, and using technology to assist young smokers with cessation.

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Brandon Crosby

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a second year graduate student working with Dr. Michele Gelfand. I focus on diversity in organizations, specifically on such topics as negotiation, status and social accounts. In addition, I work with the MURI project that focuses on revenge and the culture of honor.

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Sara Ericson

Graduate Student

301-405-0374
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Benjamin Falk

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research has focused on the echolocation behavior of flying bats. I have studied the discrimination abilities of flying bats in a large flight room, training them to discriminate between different textured or shaped inedible objects. The goal is to identify to what degree bats can discriminate different textures/shapes using echolocation and then characterize their behavior so that we can identify how they are able to make these discriminations. By using an array of ultrasound microphones placed around the room and high speed video recordings, we can reconstruct the 3-D flight path of the bat and the echolocation beam pattern as the bat flies in the flight room. Through these techniques, I've been working on determining how bats investigate, discriminate, and categorize objects in their environment using echolocation. Another interest of mine is trying to understand how bats integrate somatosensory and motor information (about wind currents and body position) with echolocation in order to successfully navigate their environment. This is an ongoing project but current work has focused on potential wind sensors (very small hairs) on the wings of bats. By carefully removing the hairs we can determine what role those hairs have and in what ways does the bat compensate their removal.

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Emily Feinberg

Graduate Student

Current Research : Emily is a third year student in the SDOS program. Her research interests are broadly focused on cross-cultural topics in organizational psychology. Specifically, she is researching cross-cultural competency acquisition and training, the influence of cultural values on job attraction, and expatriate management. Emily has also published work on adverse impact in selection and a cross-cultural comparison of selection methods. For more information and a link to her CV, please go to http://sites.google.com/site/emilyfeinbergpsyc/.

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Marisa Franco

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research focus on the experiences of Biracial people, specifically, Biracial people's resilience and challenges along with their levels of connectedness to their minority group. I am investigating the extent that Biracial people are susceptible to stigmas associated with their minority group and how one's racial identity might influence stigma susceptibility. In addition, I am interested in the the intersection between race and class, particularly Black racial identity development for upper/middle class Black people.

301-405-5934
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Ashley Fulmer

Graduate Student

Current Research : Ashley is a third-year doctoral student in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences (SDOS) Program. Her research focuses on the areas of conflict management, including trust and negotiation, as well as organizational context, such as climate, leadership, and workplace diversity. Many of her studies also concern cross-cultural and levels of analysis issues. Her Master's thesis investigates the dynamics of trust and violation in Japan, Jordan, and the U.S., and how this process is moderated by the situational factor of ingroup-outgroup status and the individual differences in levels of self-construal. As a MURI graduate fellow, Ashley is working with Dr. Michele Gelfand on studies related to negotiation and collaboration in the Middle East. Currently, they have several lines of study, including investigations of 1) how people across cultures perceive emotion differently in negotiation, 2) whether different cultures attach different meanings to silence in communication, 3) how fatalistic belief is related to risk taking, and 4) whether people from different cultures vary in their trajectories of trust building and recovery. Additionally, with Dr. Cheri Ostroff, she is examining the way individuals from different racial backgrounds generate dissimilar psychological perceptions of diversity climate in an organization and whether these perceptions influence their perceptions of societal discrimination. She and Dr. Ostroff also employ Major League Baseball data to examine the impact on individuals performance when they change teams. Finally, as part of the GLOBE project, Ashley works with Dr. Paul Hanges to examine how environmental contingencies moderate the effects of leaders' individual differences on organizational outcomes. Another study involves linking leaders characteristics to the social network structures of their teams. Prior to Maryland, she worked as a Project Director for a NIMH-funded study at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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Margo A. Gregor

Graduate Student

Current Research : My current research focuses is on career, gender, and outcomes for women. My masters thesis looked at female doctoral students in counseling and clinical psychology and the predictors of their future career and leadership aspirations.

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Jacquelyn T. Gross

Graduate Student

Current Research : My goal is to understand how the quality of young children's close relationships shapes social and emotional development throughout life. My research interests focus on parenting interventions designed to improve developmental outcomes for at-risk children, such as those raised in poverty or in institutions.

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Jesse Harrington

Graduate Student

Current Research : Jesse is a second year doctoral student studying social and organizational psychology with a focus on cross-cultural research. His broad interests include the (1) interrelationship between culture, cognition, and behavior, (2) the proximal and distal factors that contribute to cultural differences and cultural evolution, and (3) the context-dependent rationality of individual behavior given local cultural and social norms.

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Teresa Huang

Graduate Student

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Ann Hummel

Graduate Student

Current Research : My primary research interests include psychotherapy process and outcome, counselor training, and the therapeutic relationship. For psychotherapy process and outcome research, I am currently involved with the Maryland Psychotherapy Clinic and Research Lab. Topics being studied include therapist interventions, corrective relational experiences, and the discussion of dreams in therapy. For counselor training research, I am currently involved in studies on immediacy (process comments) training, and insight skills training. Past projects have included a study of the interrelationships between personality, theoretical orientation and helping skill preference, and a study of predictors and outcomes of helping skills training. For the study of the therapeutic relationship, I am interested in testing the tripartite model of the therapeutic relationship, especially the real (or personal) relationship and how it relates to outcome. My secondary or developing research interests include willpower, self-control, personality, and eating disorders. My teaching interests and experiences include helping skills training, psychology of human sexuality, and psychology of women. As a clinician, I am interested in individual and group therapy, career counseling, and clinical assessment. My theoretical orientation is interpersonal-behavioral.

301-405-8276
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Erika Hussey

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am currently a Wylie fellow in my fifth year of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science doctoral program. As a former Language Science IGERT fellow, I collaborate with researchers across campus in the Departments of Psychology, Kinesiology, and Linguistics and with individuals at the Center for Advanced Study of Language. Taken together, my research interests lie at the intersection of psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. My dissertation work investigates the malleability of executive functions (i.e., how individuals ability to regulate thought and behavior can change) using novel intervention paradigms such as longitudinal cognitive training, cognitive fatigue paradigms, and the induction of performance pressure. A major question that my research program asks is whether cognitive control abilities can be improved through practice, and the extent to which training-induced gains generalize to untrained language measures that rely on shared cognitive control functions. Recording eye movements during real-time reading tasks help address these issues. Additional research interests include 1) using candidate genes to understand the relationship between cognitive flexibility and cognitive stability, 2) examining individual differences in stress resiliency and emotional regulation for domain-general cognitive control, 4) neurologically elucidating what constitutes greater plasticity of cognitive abilities, and 4) developing well-specified interventions that may be used to accelerate second-language learning or attenuate the problems encountered by individuals with language impairments.

301-405-5866
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John Jackson

Graduate Student

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Skylar Jackson

Graduate Student

Current Research : Relationships between social stigma, identity development, and health outcomes

301-405-0009
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Jason D. Jones

Graduate Student

Current Research : Broadly, my research focuses on close relationships across the lifespan and the influence of these relationships on mental and physical health. I am particularly interested in parent-child relationships and how early experiences in the family relate to later risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, risky sexual behaviors) and health. Currently, I am examining how unsupportive parenting practices influence adolescents coping strategies and risk behaviors.

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Kristen Klein

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research examines extreme attitudes, cognition, and behavior at the individual and group level, using both normative and behavioral economic definitions of extremism. In my basic research, I am exploring cognitive and motivational factors involved in processes of radicalization and deradicalization. I am also leading a project to investigate the individual- and organizational-level factors which motivate suicide attacks, and am involved in several other applied projects with the goal of sustaining and improving deradicalization efforts. Due to my interest in the social science of terrorism and extremism, I received a generous Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowship to fund my studies.

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Jinqjing Liu

Graduate Student

(301) 405-6876
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Katiah Llerena

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research focuses on schizophrenia and spectrum disorders. More specifically, I am interested in understanding emotion, cognition, and motivation in schizophrenia using behavioral and neurophysiological measures. Further, I am interested in how these factors may contribute to social and functional impairment. My dissertation research focuses on understanding the time course of emotional responding in schizophrenia using behavioral and neurophysiological assessments to better understand deficits in goal-directed behavior.

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Sarah Lyons

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a first year student in the SDOS program with a focus on social and cultural psychology. Prior to my graduate study at the University of Maryland I collaborated with Dr. Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia on research pertaining to culture and well-being. Current research interests include cultural influences on negotiation, emotional expression, motivation, and group behavior.

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Jessica Magidson

Graduate Student

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Alexis Matusiewicz

Graduate Student

(301)405-4606
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Heather Mazursky-Horowitz

Graduate Student

Current Research : My current research interests lie in the development and dissemination of early intervention programs for preschool-age children, showing signs of ADHD as well as anxiety. More specifically, I am interested in how parenting and parental psychopathology moderate the life courses of these children and how we can intervene at this level to promote healthy development.

301-405-1531
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Julie McCarthy

Graduate Student

Current Research : I graduated from Tufts University with a B.A. in clinical psychology in 2008. Subsequently, I worked for two years as a research assistant at McLean Hospital focusing on neuroimaging and genetics studies in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder populations. Now, I am a second year graduate student and am continuing my interest in schizophrenia and populations at risk for developing schizophrenia-spectrum disorders that may experience negative symptoms like social anhedonia. My Masters Thesis will use a multimodal approach that integrates self-report, behavioral, and physiological data to better understand deficits in motivation and effort in individuals with social anhedonia.

301.405.5934
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Rabiah Muhammad

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a first year grad student in the SDOS program, and my concentration is in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. The primary goal for my research is to investigate ways in which to increase diversity for leadership positions in different aspects of business, using different approaches such as mentoring. Additionally, I would like to understand different cultural frameworks on topics such as teams, trust, customer service, retention, and future career goals.

301-405-5934
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Monisha Nag

Graduate Student

Current Research : My interests revolve around quantitative research methods applied in studying organizational phenomena. I am also interested in the cognitive aspects of human behavior; for example, how mental schemas might affect one's perceptions and actions.

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Earta Norwood

Graduate Student

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Joo Park

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a first year graduate student in the SDOS program with a focus in industrial and organizational psychology. My current research interests are broadly in personnel selection and workplace diversity.

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Stephanie Grace Park

Graduate Student

Current Research : Stephanie received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 and is now a fifth year graduate student in the Laboratory of Emotion and Psychopathology (LEAP) working under Dr. Jack Blanchard. Broadly, her research interests lie in examining the determinants of functional outcome and recovery in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

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Andres Perez Rojas

Graduate Student

Current Research : The focus of my research is on the influence of language and culture in therapy. How do client and therapist relate to one another when one or both are bilingual, or from different cultures? How can language impede or enhance the therapeutic relationship? Broadly speaking, I am interested in how language and culture shape an individuals ability to form relationships, recall memories, and express emotions, and how these processes relate to the therapy experience

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Katherine Rice

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research focuses primarily on the neural correlates of early social and communicative development in both typical development and autism.

(301)405-8441
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Jessica Richards

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am a 4th year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student working with Dr. Carl Lejuez in CAPER. I graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2006 with a B.S. in Psychology, a concentration in Biopsychology,and a certificate in Women's Studies. During my undergraduate years I interned in the Behavioral Biology department at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) studying the effects of sleep deprivation and psychostimulant administration on sleep architecture and executive functioning in healthy volunteers. After graduating, I continued working full time at WRAIR for one year as a study manager on a sleep deprivation study. My work with psychostimulants at WRAIR, combined with undergraduate coursework in biopsychology and neuropsychopharmacology, sparked my interest in studying addiction. My current research interests revolve around the behavioral and biological mechanisms underlying the relationship between stress and addiction. I am currently the lead graduate student on an fMRI study examining neurobiological mechanisms underlying distress tolerance in substance users and healthy controls. In addition, I am involved in a study examining a novel computer-based behavioral assessment of risk taking, and I am serving as a therapist on a treatment study examining a behavioral treatment for heroin users with high anxiety sensitivity. Finally, I recently completed my master's thesis, which aimed to examine cortisol reactivity to two different types of psychological stress and a neutral condition among a sample of cocaine-dependent individuals in residential substance use treatment.

301-405-5922
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Leslie Rollins

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research primarily focuses on memory development in early childhood. I have been studying childrens memory for items and their contextual details using behavioral measures and event-related potentials (ERPs). Recently, I have been investigating whether 3- and 6-year-old childrens memory performance relates to other skills such as executive functioning and general intelligence.

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Elizabeth Salmon

Graduate Student

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Elissa Sarno

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research interests are in LGBT mental health. I am currently participating in research on conflicts in allegiances, which aims to explore the experiences of individuals who subscribe to multiple minority identities, particularly LGB people of color. I also have an interest in HIV-related mental health, and will be using daily dairy data to investigate correlates of sexual risk-taking behavior for my master's thesis.

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Andrew Schmidt

Graduate Student

301-405-5934
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Laura Severance

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research interests lie in issues of culture, diversity, negotiation, and the role of biology in the organizational sciences. My masters thesis focuses on the role of hormones (e.g. estradiol) in competitive versus conciliatory behavior in negotiation with male and female opponents. The theory underlying this research is informed by both evolutionary and organizational psychology, hence putting forth a multidisciplinary perspective on negotiation. Gender is also a primary research interest of mine; I am currently examining the joint effect of gender and attractiveness on backlash directed towards individuals who initiate negotiation. Another project focuses on the match between personal appearance (masculine versus feminine) and gendered job context (masculine-typed jobs versus feminine-typed jobs). My work on diversity also delves into racial discrimination. More specifically, I am currently examining covertly and overtly expressed prejudice towards Arab-Americans in a hiring context. My work on MURI Project INTERaction examines communication patterns in integrative negotiations in the Middle East and the US. An additional project (with collaborators at the University of Warsaw) puts forth a dynamical approach to conflict escalation across cultures of honor, dignity, and face.

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Alison Shell

Graduate Student

Current Research : My general research interests are in investigating the complex ties that exist between language and cognition. While I aim to study both the ways that language can impact the way we think, as well as the way our cognitive processes can influence the way we speak and listen, my current research focuses mainly on the latter. Currently I am investigating the role of inhibitory control in bilingual language production. It is commonly believed that inhibition is used in bilingual language production in order to switch between multiple languages. My research seeks to determine if this inhibition is specific to language or if it may, in fact, be the same cognitive inhibitory control used for non-linguistic tasks. Another project that I am beginning to work on as part of my IGERT fellowship investigates the role of cognitive control in second language learning. While it is widely known that children are better than adults at second language learning, the purpose of this research is to delve more deeply into the cognitive mechanisms that may allow for this advantage. I am currently looking at learning of complex linguistic rules in adults and plan to address this with young children as part of a lab rotation. Specifically I am asking if aspects of cognitive control may benefit or disadvantage specific areas of language learning.

301-405-0009
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Laura Sherman

Graduate Student

Current Research : My research centers on understanding the social-emotional development of infants. I am particularly interested in aspects of the parent-child relationship, including parental cognitions about their infants and infant social cognition. My dissertation tests whether infants represent and remember social-emotional interactions.

301.405.5935
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Hyeyoung Shin

Graduate Student

301-405-6188
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Victoria Smith

Graduate Student

Current Research : Victoria Smith received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 2008 and is currently a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests lie broadly in understanding the etiology of depression across childhood and adolescence, with a focus on understanding the influence of stress on youth cognitive, behavioral, and emotional development.

301-405-5934
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Junjie Su

Graduate Student

Current Research : I'm a first year SDOS student interested in two broad areas: organizational issues such as adverse impact in testing and selection, and cross cultural issues, such as conflict resolution.

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Joanna Szczepanik

Graduate Student

Current Research : People suffering from depression seem to get no joy out of life. So called anhedonia, the inability experience pleasure, is one of the defining features of major depressive disorder (MDD). Unable to feel enthusiasm for friends, hobbies, food, or sex, people with MDD drop out and withdraw into themselves. Recent research, including functional brain imaging such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imagaing (fMRI) provided evidence that symptoms of anhedonia may be related to dysfunction in so called brain reward system, and putatively identified brain regions where depressed patients differ from healthy controls in their responses to reward, such as winning money. My research is aimed at investigating whether Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression, which directly addresses symptoms of anhedonia by encouraging re-engagement in previously enjoyed activities while providing structure and therapeutic support, will result in neurobiological changes in the networks engaged in response to pleasure and reward.

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Brandon Terrizzi

Graduate Student

Current Research : I received my baccalaureate degree from the University of Arizona in the spring of 2012 as a major in both psychology and philosophy. I was accepted as a doctoral student in the department of psychology at the University of Maryland beginning in the fall of that same year. My advisor Dr. Jonathan Beier and I hope to use a variety of experimental methods such as looking time, eye-tracking, and staged interactions to investigate the cognitive processes underlying adults, young childrens, and infants ability to extract, process, and respond to socially relevant information from their manifold of experience. Chief among these questions are how do infants and young children extract and represent the construct of intentionality and identify intentional agents from the external world, how do they develop and represent social hierarchy and social categories, to what extent are infants and young children aware of others social motivations and relationships, and how are these representations integrated into a mature social competency.

301-405-8276
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Susan Teubner-Rhodes

Graduate Student

Current Research : Broadly, my research examines the relationship between executive function (the ability to regulate mental behavior and resolve among competing representations) and language processing. I am particularly interested in how individual differences in domain-general executive function influence controlled language processing abilities, including lexical access of low frequency items, the processing and comprehension of complex syntax, and integration of multiple information sources during language acquisition. The relationship between executive function and language processing is by no means unidirectional, so my research also explores the advantages in executive function conferred by bilingualism. Balanced bilinguals, who have had equivalent exposure to two languages since early childhood, outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, presumably because frequent switching between two languages requires executive function abilities to inhibit lexical items from the incorrect language and to monitor speech for output errors. In my research, I combine neuroimaging and behavioral techniques to investigate the nature and the source of the bilingual advantage.

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Sarah A. Thomas

Graduate Student

Current Research : I received my B.A. with honors in Psychology in 2005 from Boston University and my M.A. in Social Science, with a focus on Psychology, from the University of Chicago in 2008. After that, I worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator in Neuropsychiatry on studies with adults who have mood and psychotic disorders. Broadly, my research interests include maladaptive adolescent development and the factors associated with this development, such as parent-adolescent interactions, conflict, psychopathology, and risk taking. Two disorders that my research has focused on are social anxiety and bulimia nervosa. I am interested in the variables that contribute to the development of psychological disorders and how to prevent these disorders through early treatment and interventions in childhood and adolescence. Some of my most recent work has focused on parent-adolescent interactions in families with a bulimic adolescent and parents and teens reports and behaviors of conflict. Im interested in incorporating multiple methods of assessment in research, including physiological indices like heart rate variability and neuroimaging.

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Sharon Renee Thomas

Graduate Student

Current Research : As an undergraduate, I attended Arizona State University and graduated with honors with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in African and African American Studies. I then received an Intramural Research Training Award to work as a research fellow for the NIH/NICHD Child and Family Research Lab, focusing on the longitudinal effects of maternal depression on infant interaction styles. Specifically, I was interested in studying how maternal depression in mothers of 5-month-old infants predicted child internalizing and externalizing symptoms one year later. My current research interests focus on how maternal psychopathology, namely depression, is related to variations in parenting behavior in families of children with ADHD. Additionally, I am interested in understanding how maternal psychopathology and positive and negative parenting behavior function within parent-child interactions. My current Master's project investigates how maternal depression relates to observed parent-child interaction patterns in families of children with ADHD.

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Marissa Tolep

Graduate Student

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Jasmine Wheeler

Graduate Student

Current Research : I am currently a first year graduate student in the SDOS program working with Dr. Michele Gelfand. My research interests include diversity, leadership, and empowerment. More specifically, I am interested in how to maximize the success of diversity efforts and ensure that women and minorities in the workplace feel empowered and have the ability to take advanced leadership roles.

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Maria Wydra

Graduate Student