Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena Starting Clinical Internships in the 23-24 Academic Year!

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!

Paper Published in Schizophrenia!

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!

Lisa Lin Presents Research at 2022 TLC Love Conference!

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!

New Graduate Student Beth Kruse Joins the Lab!

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!

Graduate Student Lisa Lin Presents Research at SPSP 2022!

Graduate student Lisa Lin had the opportunity to present a poster on her research examining the relationship between nonverbal synchrony and friendship satisfaction and support at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Francisco! Congrats Lisa!!!

Lab members present research at APS 2022!

Graduate students Abhishek Saxena and Bridget Shovestul, Lab Manager Stephanie Reda and former Study Coordinator Paige Amormino got the opportunity to present on their research at this year’s APS Conference in Chicago. They are pictured here enjoying the city. Congrats everyone!

Graduate Student Abhishek Saxena wins SSCP Distinguished Contribution Award!

The Distinguished Contribution Award is granted by the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) “each year to an individual who has made an extremely important career contribution to the science of clinical psychology”. This year our very own Abhishek Saxena has received the award for their work examining the use of real-time fMRI… Continue reading Graduate Student Abhishek Saxena wins SSCP Distinguished Contribution Award!

Undergrad Aaron Johnson awarded BCS Meliora Fellowship to conduct research with the SCP Lab!

The Meliora Fellowship is sponsored by the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science (BCS) here at the University of Rochester. Meliora Fellowships fully fund summer research opportunities for students from backgrounds underrepresented in research. This 10-week program pairs students with faculty labs working in brain research for an intensive research experience. The in-lab experiences are… Continue reading Undergrad Aaron Johnson awarded BCS Meliora Fellowship to conduct research with the SCP Lab!