Department of Psychology

Dissertations and Job Placements, 2020-Present


2023

Jennifer Wicks

Dissertation: "How Social Support Adaptively and Maladaptively Influences Depression Risk"

Employment: Senior Research Associate at Brandeis University, Heller

Krystal Leger

Dissertation: "The Influence of Culture on Mnemonic Processes: A Comparison of Easterners and Westerners"

Employment: Senior Medical Writer at Boston Scientific

Morgan Taylor

Dissertation: "Investigating the Mechanisms and Consequences of Repetitive Negative Thinking"

Employment: Research and Evaluation Manager at Babson College

Claire Elling
Dissertation: "An Exploration of the Health-Relevance of Self-Objectification via Basal Cortisol Function in Middle-Aged and Older Women"

2022

Xin Yao Lin

Dissertation: "Social Technology Use and Well-Being: The Role of Social Support and Physical Activity"

Workplace/Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Weill Cornell Medicine

Rachel Runqui Jin
Dissertation: "Distinguishing Risk and Difficulty in Human Visual Balancing"
Wanbing Zhang
Dissertation: "Memory Benefit of Imagining Loss and Gain"

2021

Brandon Hager

Dissertation: "Gathering Action Information With Sensorimotor Resonance"

Employment: Director of Software Engineering and Analytics, LifeCanvas Technologies

2020

John Ksander

Dissertation: "Computational Accounts for Episodic Memory in Reinforcement Learning"

Employment: Senior Research Engineer II, Scientific Systems, Inc.

Alycia Bisson

Dissertation: "Examining Sleep as a Mechanism Linking Physical Activity and Cognition"

Workplace/Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School. 

Yile Sun

Dissertation: "Audiovisual Interaction and Decision Making Under Time Pressure"

Workplace/Position: Data Scientist, DOE Tech Lead at Bank of America, Digital Analytics & Data Science Services

Marissa A. DiGirolamo

Dissertation: "The Complex Model of Empathy: Investigating the Effect of Arousal on Bottom-up and Top-down Empathy Components"

Workplace/Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University

William Goodman

Dissertation: "How Do Study Protocol Variations Affect Cortisol Response And Recovery To The Trier Social Stress Test"

Workplace/Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Evolutionary Biology (Skeletal Biology and Biomechanics Lab), Harvard University

Jeremy Simon

Dissertation: "White or Wight? Race, Neural Synchrony, and Interpersonal Dehumanization"

Employment: Education Data Analyst, MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Nadya Greenberg

Dissertation: "Resonance and behaviors toward others are predicted by perceived warmth and competence of target."