Amanda Merner, Kelsey Magee, and Professor Heath Demaree recently published a paper exploring the connections between emotional experiences and changes in bodily sensations.
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Amanda Merner has been elected to the Association for Psychological Science Student Caucus (APSSC) executive board for the upcoming 2019-2020 academic year. She will be serving as the editor for the Student Notebook, a monthly column in the APS Observer dedicated to issues of interest to graduate students.
Meet Anne Kotynski, an affective scientist, who is a 5th-year PhD student in the DCAS program. Anne is currently collecting data for her dissertation on the impact of visual attention on auditory perception. She also recently finished her second year of teaching. Anne's primary PhD advisor is Heath Demaree.
Meet Dr. Brooke Macnamara, a cognitive psychologist, who is a core faculty member in the DCAS program. Dr. Macnamara researches individual differences in cognitive ability, achievement, skill acquisition, and expertise, as well as factors that impact learning and complex human performance. Her current projects include: testing the premises of...
Meet David Katz, a cognitive-developmental psychologist, who is a 5th-year PhD student in the DCAS program. David recently finished collecting data for his dissertation on delineating between different types of working memory measures. He also co-authored a meta-analysis on the heritability of spatial ability, recently published in Intelligence. David's primary...
Meet Olena Zyga, a developmental psychologist, who is a 5th-year PhD student in the DCAS program. Olena's primary research interests have focused along two main lines of work. The first is characterization of early social cognitive ability and parent-child interaction through the use of behavioral and biological measures across...