Latest Lab News

Lisa Lin was awarded the 2020 APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship to support her research examining the relationship between nonverbal synchrony and relationship satisfaction in close relationships”

Lisa Lin was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her project proposed to use Motion Energy Analysis, an automated program, to quantify nonverbal synchrony among romantic couples and examine whether the degree of nonverbal synchrony among couples predicted their current and future relationship satisfaction… Continue reading Lisa Lin awarded NSF Honorable Mention!

The UR Psychology Department presented Abhishek Saxena with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Service Award! This award recognizes outstanding graduate student contributions to enriching diversity, equity, and inclusion in our department, across the university, and in our community. Way to go, Abhi!

Two of our lab members successfully defended their honors theses! Elizabeth Schupbach presented on Marital Relationship and Adolescent Emotional Insecurity in Association with Dynamics of Parenting Behavior. A recording of the presentation is available on YouTube here. Siddhant Iyer presented on his research: Representing & Reasoning about Beliefs of Romantic Couples: a Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis… Continue reading Graduating Seniors Defend Honors Theses

Findings from a recent paper that Dr. Dodell-Feder was an author on have been featured on URMC’s news site! The project used fMRI to examine brain networks implicated in memory as well as individual differences in how these networks are activated. See the full feature here!

Research Assistant Sunny Liu will be studying the relationship between social exclusion and the development of psychopathology mediated by neural changes under advisor and SCP Lab grad student Abhi Saxena! The project will use data from the national longitudinal ABCD (adolescent brain cognitive development) dataset. Sunny will receive funding through the competitive Meliora Undergraduate Research… Continue reading Research Assistant Sunny Liu Awarded Meliora Research Fellowship With Advisor Abhi Saxena!

Research Assistant Jonathan Lai’s first conference paper focusing on sentiments about the term “face masks” and their relation to key policy shift events and political ideology has been accepted for the competitive 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data! Jonathan and his colleagues analyzed Twitter data from January to August and their study is being… Continue reading Research Assistant Jonathan Lai’s Paper Accepted for the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data!

Former Reading Study Coordinator, Paige Amormino began working towards her PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University this Fall! Paige is working under advisor Dr. Abigail Marsh of the Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience. The lab studies the social, cognitive, and neural bases of social processes and Paige is particularly interested in moral psychology. Congratulations… Continue reading Paige Starts PhD Program at Georgetown University!

Former lab manager Emily Dudek has started a new position as the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai in New York, NY! There she is working on a randomized trial for an online intervention aiming to improve emotion regulation. She will also be helping out with MRI analysis for… Continue reading Emily Starts New Research Position at Mount Sinai!

We are excited to welcome our new Reading Study Coordinator, Gloria Liu and our new Lab Manager, Stephanie Reda! Gloria grew up in Los Angeles, CA and Dallas, TX and completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College in the greater Boston area! Stephanie grew up in Westchester, NY and joins us from D.C. where she… Continue reading New Full-Time Lab Staff Join the Team!