Recent Graduates

Hannah Berg
Area: Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research 
Advisor: Shmuel Lissek
Dissertation: Deciding Which Fears to Face: Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Costly Avoidance in Clinical Anxiety

Sijin Chen
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisor: Nicola Grissom
Dissertation: Sex-correlated variability in exploration strategy in uncertain environments

McKenzie Kaubrys
Area: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Patricia Frazier
Dissertation: Examining Mediators of the Association Between Child Maltreatment and Sleep Disturbance in College Students

Yuri Kim
Area: Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavior Genetics
Advisors: Matt McGue, James Lee
Dissertation: Expanding the Nomological Net of Personality Psychology

Sara Knauz
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Wilma Koutstaal, Shmuel Lissek
Dissertation: Alexithymia Subscales Have Distinct Roles in Both the Variability of Arousal Ratings and in Associations With Anxiety and Psychological Inflexibility

Caitlin Koller
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Vanessa Lee, Daniel Kersten
Dissertation: Dynamic Selection History Guides Attention Via a Path-like, Habit-like Mechanism

Justin Kracht
Area: Quantitative/Psychometric Methods
Advisor: Niels Waller
Dissertation: Make Some Noise: Generating Data From Imperfect Factor Models

Xinyu Liu
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisor: Stephen Engel
Dissertation: Plasticity of face perception in the human visual system

Siyun Liu
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Gordon Legge, Daniel Kersten
Dissertation: Does Motion Parallax Enhance the Accuracy of Object Depth Perception?

Mischel Abramowski, Emily
Area: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Patricia Frazier
Dissertation: The Role of Stressor Controllability in Regulatory Strategy Use Effectiveness: A Daily Diary Examination of Strategy-Situation Fit

Victoria Oleynick
Area: Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research 
Advisor: Bill Iacono
Dissertation: Alcohol-related disruptions of cerebellar contributions to cognition: a longitudinal study of cerebellar volume in twins

Riley Palmer
Area: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Patricia Frazier
Dissertation: Investigating Psychotherapy No-Shows Using Latent Trajectory Analysis

Michelle Thai
Area: Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research 
Advisors: Shmuel Lissek, Bonnie Klimes-Dougan
Dissertation: Interplay among Neural, Autonomic, and Neuroendocrine Systems in Rumination

Melissa Velez
Area: Counseling Psychology
Advisor: Richard Lee
Dissertation: El Ingenio Mexicano: A cultural value among Mexican/Mexican Americans

Yilei Wang
Area: Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Advisors: Deniz Ones, Nathan Kuncel
Dissertation: Organizational Environmental Sustainability in Asian Countries: Assessment and Nomological Network