Recent PhD Graduates 2022-2023
Congratulations to all of our recent Psychology PhD graduates! Thank you for the hard work, dedication, and passion for advancing the field of psychology that you brought to your studies and that earned you this remarkable achievement. We are proud to add you to the Department of Psychology’s list of talented alumni and wish you a bright and successful future!
Dissertation title: “Choosing a ‘Source of Truth’: The Implications of Using Self versus Interviewer Ratings of Interviewee Personality as Training Data for Language-Based Personality Assessments”
Area: Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Advisor: Richard Landers
Dissertation title: “Experience-guided Attention and Eye Movements: Coupled or Independent?”
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Vanessa Lee, Sheng He
Dissertation title: “Fueling Physical Activity with a Hybrid Motivational System: How Multiple Sources of Motivation and Experiences Promote Physical Activity Across Contexts and Time”
Area: Social Psychology
Advisors: Alex Rothman, Traci Mann
Dissertation title: “Investigating Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits through Analysis of Rare Variants and Diverse Genomes”
Area: Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavioral Genetics
Advisor: Scott Vrieze
Dissertation title: “Expanding the Nomological Net of Personality Psychology”
Area: Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavioral Genetics
Advisors: Matt McGue, James Lee
Dissertation title: “Alexithymia Subscales Have Distinct Roles in Both the Variability of Arousal Ratings and in Associations With Anxiety and Psychological Inflexibility”
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Wilma Koutstaal, Shmuel Lissek
Dissertation title: “Make Some Noise: Generating Data From Imperfect Factor Models”
Area: Quantitative/Psychometric Methods
Advisors: Niels Waller
Dissertation title: “Measurements of Malleable Vosual Mechanisms Through High-resolution fMRI and Perceptual Learning”
Area: Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Advisors: Cheryl Olman, Steve Engel
Dissertation title: “Mapping the Beneficial and Adverse Consequences of Receiving Weight-Related Advice from a Healthcare Provider: Identifying Strategies to Optimize Well-Being”
Area: Social Psychology
Advisors: Traci Mann, Alex Rothman
Dissertation title: “A Comparison of Item Selection Methods and Stopping Rules in Multi-category Computerized Classification Testing”
Area: Quantitative/Psychometric Methods
Advisors: Katerina Marcoulides, Dave Weiss
Dissertation title: “Toward an Empirically Based Structure of Infant Temperament: Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Infant Behavior Questionaire-Revised”
Area: Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavior Genetics
Advisor: Colin DeYoung
Dissertation title: “Masculine Culture, Gender Roles, and the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM Fields”
Area: Social Psychology
Advisors: Gene Borgida, Mark Snyder
