Graduate Career Outcomes

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position, if changed
Maria Dekhtyar	Investigating Depression In Adults With Post-Stroke Aphasia: Current Clinical Practice And Possible Treatment	Christopher Beevers	Post-doc (University of Washington Medical Center)
Dariella Fernandez	Effects Of Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation On Brain Rhythmic Electrical Activity And Executive Function In Older Adults	F. Gonzalez-Lima, Andreana Haley	Neuropsychology Post-doc (Comprehensive Memory Center at Dell Medical School)
Caitlin Fischer	Use Of Cbd Oil For Reducing The Negative Emotional Impact Of Covid-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial	Michael Telch	Psychologist (VA Western Colorado Health Care System)
Patrick O'Connor	Use Of Cbd Oil For Reducing The Negative Emotional Impact Of Covid-19: A Randomized Clinical Trial	F. Gonzalez-Lima	Post-doc (Dr. Gonzalez-Lima lab UT Austin)
Estrella Thomas	Effects Of Behavioral Tasks On Memory Reconsolidation And Trauma- Related Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial	Michael Telch	Post-doc (VA Hospital San Diego, CA)
Cherry Youn	The Effect Of Large Neutral Amino Acids On Neuropsychological Performance And Brain Integrity In Middle-Aged Adults At Cardiovascular Risk	Andreana Haley	Post-doc (Laureate Institute for Brain Research)
Mackenzie Zisser	Depression, Experiential Diversity, And Behavioral Novelty: A Mobile Sensing Experimental Paradigm	Christopher Beevers	Post-doc (Anxiety and Panic Disorders Clinica of Santa Barbara)

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Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position, if changed
Margaret Clapp	Using Minimal Cognitive Measurements To Characterize Cognitive Change And Dementia Risk	Elliot Tucker-Drob	Post-doc (Washington University in St. Louis)
Pelin Cunningham-Erdogdu	Making Sense Of Misinformation: How Deep Alignment With The U.S. Shapes The Responses Of Liberals And Conservatives	William Swann/James Pennebaker	UX/Mixed Methods Researcher (Affirma)
James Daly	Generalization Of Performance-Based Intrinsic Task Preferences	Jacqueline Woolley	TBD
Rebecka Hahnel-Peeters	Examining Women'S Defenses Against Sexual Violence Perpetrated By Strangers, Acquaintances, Friends, And Romantic Partners	David Buss	Assistant Professor (Indiana State University)
Ajna Kertesz	Examining The Role Of Cognitive And Social Factors In Accented Speech Perception	Catharine Echols	Visiting Professor (Wesleyan University)
Hannah Lunkenheimer	Causal Reasoning About Misfortune And Its Relation To Well-Being	Jacqueline Woolley	Quantitative Research Specialist (Omni Institute)
Shaina Munin	Negative Emotional Reactions To Romantic Conflict: Does Age Impact Associations With Physical Health?	Jennifer Beer	Visiting Assitant Professor (Ohio Wesleyan)
Victoria Nemchek	Patterns Of Activity-Dependent Structural Plasticity After Stroke	Theresa Jones	TBD
Tonan O'Shea	On Neural Mechanisms for Relaying Sensory Inputs	Nicholas Preibe and Xuexin Wei	Post-doc (Georgia Tech University)
Jesse Peregrino	Measurement Of Beliefs: Lessons From Measuring Beliefs Of Sars-Cov-2	Cristine Legare	TBD
Blaire Porter	Behavioral And Brain Associations With Academic Achievement And Skill Change	Jessica Church-Lang	Post-doc (University of Texas at Austin)
Katherine Steele	Language, Belief, and Stigma: How Children Conceptualize Mental Illness	Jacqueline Woolley	Director of Research Learning (Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute)
Adriana Vasquez	The Role Of Gonadal Hormones On Female Extinction Learning	Joanne Lee	TBD

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Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Bridget Freihart	Examining the role of physiological synchrony in partnered sexual activity	Cindy Meston	Private Clinical Practice
M. Molly McNamara	Improving the assessment of attention bias in depression	Christopher Beevers	Post-doc (Mclean Hospital/Harvard University)
Megan Micheletti	Objective markers of mother and infant behavior predict maternal men tal health: evidence from a multimodal sensing paradigm	Kaya de Barbaro	Post-Doc (UCLA)
Emma Siegel	Effects of safety behaviors on distress tolerance: an experimental investigation	Michael Telch	Clinical Post-doc (San Diego Verterans Affairs Medical Center)

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Eliya Ben-Asher	Social, environmental, and neural influences of executive function ability in adolescence	Jessica Church-Lang	Lead Data Scientist (Lumer Technologies)
Tyler Larguinho	The young and the restless: restless sleep and its effect on behavioral and neural inhibition in youths with and without adhd	Jessica Church-Lang
Kyoungeun Lee	Interoceptive awareness and emotional episodic memory across the adult lifespan	Audrey Duarte	Post-doc (Georgia State)
Sydney Lee	Exploring pain- and anxiety-like behavioral disturbances after spinal cord injury in male and female mice	Andrew Gaudet
Anna Madden-Rusnak	The dynamic nature of parasympathetic regulation in infancy and influences of everyday caregiver interactions	Kaya de Barbaro	Research Scientist (Dell Medical School)
F. Nicholas Medrano	Status, respect, and adolescents' responsiveness to educational interventions	David Yeager
Tyler Milewski	Mechanisms of social plasticity in mouse social hierarchies	James Curley	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)
Soroush Mirjalili	More than sum of its parts: investigating episodic memory as a multidimensional cognitive process	Audrey Duarte	Post-doc (University of Oregon)
Kevin Moran	Obesogenic behavioral, metabolic, and neuronal consequences of adolescent social stress in male hamsters	Yvon Delville	Post-doc (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Kylee Smith	Uncovering translational predictors of outcome in preclinical models of traumatic brain injury	Linda Noble, Marie Monfils	Post-doc Virginia Tech

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Julia Chafkin	Measurement issues in the development of a novel model of hormone- linked psychopathology	Robert Josephs, David Yeager	Post-doc  (Weill Cornell)
A. Alban Foulser	A randomized controlled investigation of a compassion-based intervention for shame	Michael Telch	Post-doc (Emory University)
Talya Leibowicz	Stress and psychopathology in emergency medical services providers	Caryn Carlson	Clinical Assistant Professor (University of Texas at Austin)
James Madole	Individual differences in biology and behavior: methodological, empirical, and theoretical insights	K. Paige Harden, Elliot Tucker-Drob	Psychologist (Veterans Affairs)
Aditi Sabhlok	Executive functions and academic achievement in children and adolescents across socioeconomic and historical contexts	K. Paige Harden	Post-doc (Baylor College of Medicine)
Valeria Tretyak	Early life peer victimization: associated neural structure and reactivity to social-emotional stimuli, drinking motives, and alcohol use in young adulthood	Kim Fromme, Elizageth Lippard	Post-doc (Mclean Hospital/Harvard University)
Eric Zaizar	Using insights from neuroscience for the treatment of pathological fear: tests of three novel approaches	Michael Telch; F. Gonzalez-Lima	Post-doc (Evidence Based Treatment Center of Seattle)

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Serena Brandler	The language of devaluation: how linguistic markers communicate and perpetuate social inequities	James Pennebaker	FBI
N. Nicole Kunkel	Endocrine disruptors and hormonally-sensitive windows across the life cycle of females	Andrea Gore	Data Analyst (inThought Research)
Dillon Luke	Individual differences in responses to moral dilemmas	Bertram Gawronski	Product Scientist (Indeed)
Zachariah Marrero	Applying lessons from a critical analysis of machine learning in psychological science: two examples predicting psychological traits and states using voice data	Samuel Gosling	Machine Learning Engineer (Octo)
F. Alexis Martel	The dual nature of identity fusion: a unifying force or a source of division?	William Swann	Adjunct Professor (St. Edwards University)
Jenny Nissel	Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: chinese and u.s. children's developing possibility conceptions	Jacqueline Woolley	Post-doc (Boston University)
Daniel Panfili	The role of vision in locomotion	Mary Hayhoe	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kaila Parker	Investigating the interplay between early life stress, acute secondary pathogenesis, and chronic hippocampal impairments in young mice with traumatic brain injury	Linda Noble	Account Coordinator (Stellate Communications)
Shaden Powell	Do children show preference for non-muslim high resource speakers?	Catharine Echols	Lecturer (The University of Texas at Austin)
Sara Schroer	Embodied and environmental influences on early word learning	Chen Yu	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)

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Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Emily Carl	Estimating the effect of exercise on mental health: review and bayesian network meta-analysis	Jasper Smits	Post-doc (Krista Jordan and Associates Private Practice)
Ciara McAfee	The ability of dual-hormone laboratory stressor response to predict laboratory evoked subjective distress, and the association with real-life performance	Michael Telch, Robert Josephs	Staff Psychologist (Veterans Administration)
Mikael Rubin	Disentangling perceptual mechanisms maintaining social anxiety disorder using vr and eye tracking	Michael Telch	Assistant Professor (Palo Alto University)
Aliza Stein	Improving behavioral activation for depression	Jasper Smits	Post-doc (Mclean Hospital/Harvard University)

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Amy Arndt	Setting the gender stage: the role of perceived gender in gender performance and expression	Katharine Tillman	City Research Scientist (NYC Department of Youth & Community Development · Full-time)
Courtney Crosby	Sexual morality, evolution, and religion	David Buss, Cindy Meston	Quantitative UX Researcher (Expedia)
Patrick Durkee	Probing the fundamental features of human status psychology	David Buss	Research Associate (The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
Janelle Foret	Sex as a biological variable in cardiometabolic burden and brain integrity	Andreana Haley	Post-doc (University of CA San Diego)
Julia Martz	A role for the medial preoptic area in neuroendocrine modulation of sex differences in reward	Juan Dominguz	Post-doc (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy)
Megan McMahon	Rest-activity rhythms and cognitive aging	David Schnyer	User Experience Researcher (Mercari)
Can Oluk	Visual target detection under multiple dimensions of uncertainty	Wilson Geisler	Post-doc (Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris France)
Derek Pisner	Predicting depression persistence with connectome statistical learning	David Schnyer	Machine Learning Engineer (Clarity)
Issac Rhim	Studies of photoreceptor throughput to visual cortex	Ian Nauhaus	Post-doc (University of Oregon)
Anna Sedlacek	Sexual harassment proclivity: dimensionality and individual differences	David Buss	Editor
Sarah Seraj	Exploring how natural language reflects individual and group social dynamics	James Pennebaker	Owner/Director (A Better Force)
Miti Shah	Predicting weight loss in online weight management program	James Pennebaker	Behavioral Sciene Specialist (Convey)
Jake Whritner	Visual perception of motion in the 3d environment	Alexander Huk	Human Factors Scientist (Exponent)

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Andrew Grotzinger	Genomic structural equation modeling: a novel method used to understand the shared genetic basis of mental health disorders	Elliot Tucker-Drob, K. Paige Harden	Assistant Professor (University of Colorado Boulder)
Ariel Handy	An assessment of vaginal lubrication and blood flow in women taking oral contraceptive pills	Cindy Meston	Post-doc (The Concord Center)
Chelsea Kilimnik	An online expressive writing intervention for the pychosexual well- being of women with a history of childhood sexual abuse: theory, mechanisms, and effectiveness in a randomized clinical trail	Cindy Meston	Assistant Research Professor (University of Colorado Boulder)
Travis Mallard	An examination of the genetic etiology of substance use and serious mental illness	K. Paige Harden	Post-doc (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)
Santiago Papini	Data-driven prediction of the emergence of and recovery from ptsd	Jasper Smits	Post-doc (University of CA San Diego)

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Laura Agee	The behavioral and neural mechanisms of the social transmission of information and behavior	Marie Monfils	Post-doc (University of Texas Austin)
Ashwini Ashokkumar	How political identities are developed and maintained	William Swann, James Pennebaker	Post-doc (Stanford University)
Damion Demeter	Quantifying individual differences in patterns of functional brain network organization in youths	Jessica Church-Lang	Post-doc (University of CA San Diego)
Melanie Gonzalez	Race, socioeconomic status, and autonomy support in the classroom	David Yeager	Research Specialist (Rhode Island Department of Education)
Emily Hilz	Considerations of the estrous cycle and female gonadal hormones in reward learning and memory.	Hongjoo Lee	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kelsey Kelley	The role of perceptions of randomness in children's use of supernatural explanations	Jacqueline Woolley	Data Scientist (Indiegogo)
Remington Mallett	The crossroads of working memory, attention, and perception: how distraction impacts short-term memories	Jarrod Lewis-Peacock	Post-doc (Northwestern)
Taylor Mezzaraups	Allometric scaling in temporal integration	David Gilden
Sharon Noh	Using study sequences to highlight goal-relevant features and improve learning and memory	Alison Preston	Post-doc (UC Irvine)
Evan Nudi	Towards a reproducible model for subcortical capsular strokes	Theresa Jones	Data Scientist (Reynolds American)
Tehila Nugiel	Cognitive control and developmental difficulties	Jessica Church-Lang	Post-doc (UNC Chapel Hill)
M. Chantal Ramirez	Parent-infant engagement and parental verbal responsiveness: implications for early language development	Catharine Echols	User Experience Researcher (Human Interfaces)

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Psychology

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Eliya Ben-Asher	Social, environmental, and neural influences of executive function ability in adolescence	Jessica Church-Lang	Lead Data Scientist (Lumer Technologies)
Tyler Larguinho	The young and the restless: restless sleep and its effect on behavioral and neural inhibition in youths with and without adhd	Jessica Church-Lang
Kyoungeun Lee	Interoceptive awareness and emotional episodic memory across the adult lifespan	Audrey Duarte	Post-doc (Georgia State)
Sydney Lee	Exploring pain- and anxiety-like behavioral disturbances after spinal cord injury in male and female mice	Andrew Gaudet
Anna Madden-Rusnak	The dynamic nature of parasympathetic regulation in infancy and influences of everyday caregiver interactions	Kaya de Barbaro	Research Scientist (Dell Medical School)
F. Nicholas Medrano	Status, respect, and adolescents' responsiveness to educational interventions	David Yeager
Tyler Milewski	Mechanisms of social plasticity in mouse social hierarchies	James Curley	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)
Soroush Mirjalili	More than sum of its parts: investigating episodic memory as a multidimensional cognitive process	Audrey Duarte	Post-doc (University of Oregon)
Kevin Moran	Obesogenic behavioral, metabolic, and neuronal consequences of adolescent social stress in male hamsters	Yvon Delville	Post-doc (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Kylee Smith	Uncovering translational predictors of outcome in preclinical models of traumatic brain injury	Linda Noble, Marie Monfils	Post-doc Virginia Tech
Serena Brandler	The language of devaluation: how linguistic markers communicate and perpetuate social inequities	James Pennebaker	FBI
N. Nicole Kunkel	Endocrine disruptors and hormonally-sensitive windows across the life cycle of females	Andrea Gore	Data Analyst (inThought Research)
Dillon Luke	Individual differences in responses to moral dilemmas	Bertram Gawronski	Product Scientist (Indeed)
Zachariah Marrero	Applying lessons from a critical analysis of machine learning in psychological science: two examples predicting psychological traits and states using voice data	Samuel Gosling	Machine Learning Engineer (Octo)
F. Alexis Martel	The dual nature of identity fusion: a unifying force or a source of division?	William Swann	Adjunct Professor (St. Edwards University)
Jenny Nissel	Why wearing a yellow hat is impossible: chinese and u.s. children's developing possibility conceptions	Jacqueline Woolley	Post-doc (Boston University)
Daniel Panfili	The role of vision in locomotion	Mary Hayhoe	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)
Kaila Parker	Investigating the interplay between early life stress, acute secondary pathogenesis, and chronic hippocampal impairments in young mice with traumatic brain injury	Linda Noble	Account Coordinator (Stellate Communications)
Shaden Powell	Do children show preference for non-muslim high resource speakers?	Catharine Echols	Lecturer (The University of Texas at Austin)
Sara Schroer	Embodied and environmental influences on early word learning	Chen Yu	Post-doc (The University of Texas at Austin)

 

Clinical Psychology

Name	Dissertation Title	Dissertation Supervisor(s)	First Position	Current Position
Bridget Freihart	Examining the role of physiological synchrony in partnered sexual activity	Cindy Meston	Private Clinical Practice
M. Molly McNamara	Improving the assessment of attention bias in depression	Christopher Beevers	Post-doc (Mclean Hospital/Harvard University)
Megan Micheletti	Objective markers of mother and infant behavior predict maternal men tal health: evidence from a multimodal sensing paradigm	Kaya de Barbaro	Post-Doc (UCLA)
Emma Siegel	Effects of safety behaviors on distress tolerance: an experimental investigation	Michael Telch	Clinical Post-doc (San Diego Verterans Affairs Medical Center)

 

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