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Graduate student, Lisa Lin, with collaborators Mallory Feldman at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Ashley Tudder at Washington University in St. Louis, Abriana Gresham at Ohio University, Dr. Brett Peters at Ohio University, and Dr. Dodell-Feder, evaluate the degree of spontaneous coordination of movements among dyads and friendship satisfaction in the paper “Friends in Sync? Examining… Continue reading Paper Published in Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!

The Discover Grant for Undergraduate Summer Research (sponsored by the Schwartz Undergraduate Research Fund) supports exemplary students completing summer research projects at the University of Rochester. Two SCP Lab research assistants have been awarded the grant for Summer 2023: Brian Taliano and Catherine Lee. Brian’s project will investigate the association between paranoid thoughts and social… Continue reading Lab members Brian Taliano and Catherine Lee awarded Discover Grants!

SCP Lab’s undergraduate RAs, Chenyuan Qu and Denialle Deis, each presented a first-authored poster at the UR Undergraduate Research Exposition! Both Chenyuan and Daniella’s projects examined potential factors associated with relationship quality and satisfaction in romantic relationships. Way to go Chenyuan and Daniella!

The UR Office of Graduate Education awarded Abhishek Saxena with the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student! This award recognizes the role of graduate student instructors in undergraduate education. Congratulations Abhi!

SCP Lab’s very own graduate students, Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena, both successfully matched to clinical internships for the 2023-24 academic year! Bridget will be working with VA Serious Mental Illness at VA Maryland Health Care System / University of Maryland, and Abhishek will be working with the Early Psychosis Intervention Center at Ohio State… Continue reading Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena Starting Clinical Internships in the 23-24 Academic Year!

Abhishek Saxena was awarded the 2022 American Psychological Foundation (APF)/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship: William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship to support his dissertation research examining the differential impacts of minority stressors on psychotic-like experience. Congrats Abhi!!

SCP lab’s very own graduate students Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena, full-time staff Stephanie Reda and Emily Dudek, undergraduate RA Chenwei Wu, and principal investigator Dr. David Dodell-Feder, alongside coauthor Dr. Steve Lamberti at URMC, evaluate the prediction of future emotions in social situations and social anhedonia in the paper “Social affective forecasting and social… Continue reading Paper Published in Schizophrenia!

Graduate student Lisa Lin presented on her research on nonverbal synchrony and friendship satisfaction during the Emergent Methods speaker session to an audience at the 2022 TLC Love Conference. The Love Conference is hosted by the Love Consortium, a community of researchers studying social connections. You can find more information about the consortium here. Congrats… Continue reading Lisa Lin Presents Research at 2022 TLC Love Conference!

We are excited to welcome our new Clinical Psychology PhD student Beth Kruse! Beth completed her undergraduate degree at University of Michigan and is joining us from California, where she worked as the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Translational Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Lab & Sensorimotor Integration Lab at University of California, Davis. Welcome!