Students

Rachel Ammirati, rammira@emory.edu, Advisor: Stephen Nowicki
Research Interests: The effects of nonverbal communication and cognition on interpersonal adjustment; depression and nonverbal communication; the implications of scientific thinking for interpersonal relationships and the field of psychology; community service and clinical psychology.

Joy Beckwith, jdbeckw@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory
Research Interests: The effects of maternal psychophysiology and psychosocial stress on fetal and infant neurobehavioral development and functioning; the development of interventions for pregnant mothers to ameliorate these effects

Joanna Berg, joanna.berg@emory.edu, Advisor: Scott Lilienfeld

Amanda J. Brown, ajbrow9@emory.edu, Advisors: Linda Craighead

Amanda P. Brown, apbrow6@emory.edu, Advisors: Sherryl Goodman and Linda Craighead
Research Interests: The role of mindfulness-based interventions and contemplative practices in the treatment of psychopathology.

Nicholas Calvin, ncalvin@emory.edu, Advisor: Jack McDowell
Research Interest: Complexity theory accounts of choice behavior and its biological underpinnings.

Colleen Cowperthwait, colleen.cowperthwait@emory.edu, Advisor: Edward Craighead

Dorthie Cross, dortigo@emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Research Interests: Treatment of trauma and other issues with low SES populations; etiology of maladaptive behaviors, focusing on adolescence; relationship between personality and childhood resiliency.

Lu Dong, lu.dong@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman

Courtney Ficks, cficks@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman

Sandra Goulding, sandra.m.goulding@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Sophia Green, segree5@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory

Carrie Holtzman, choltzm@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Devon LoParo, devon.loparo@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman

Cara Lusby, clusby@emory.edu, Advisor: Sherryl Goodman

Lauren Marx, lsmarx@emory.edu, Advisor: Linda Craighead
Research Interests: Family-based treatments for eating disorders and obesity, and novel applications for Appetite Awareness Training within the eating disorders field.

Meaghan McCallum, meaghan.mccallum@emory.edu, Advisor: Sherryl Goodman

Adriana Miu, amiu@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman
Research Interests: Genetic, environmental, and social-cognitive processes in developmental psychopathology.

Jennifer Moriuchi, jennifer.moriuchi@emory.edu, Advisor: Amin Klin
Research Interests: Early pathogenesis of an heterogeneity in autism spectrum disorders.

Anjana Muralidharan, amurali@emory.edu, Advisor: Edward Craighead
Research Interests: Bipolar disorder-biological and neurodevelopmental markers and development of psychosocial therapies.

Yunsoo Park, yunsoo.park@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman
Research Interests: Genetic and neural factors that regulate emotional, social, and cognitive mechanisms in reward processing.

Brittany Robinson, brittany.robinson@emory.edu, Advisor:Patricia Brennan

Matthew Rouse, mrouse@emory.edu, Advisor: Sherryl Goodman
Research Interests: Maladaptive processes in the parent-child relationship as a predictor for developmental psychopathology.

Arthur Ryan, arthur.t.ryan@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Julia Schechter, jcschec@emory.edu, Advisor: Patricia Brennan

Daniel Shapiro, dishapi@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker
Research Interests: Cognition and behavior in schizophrenia and other psychopathology. Developmental course and precursors of mental illness.

Lisa Smith, lmsmit8@emory.edu, Advisor: Linda Craighead
Research Interests: Prevention and treatment of eating disorders.

Sarah Smith, sfsmit2@emory.edu, Advisor: Scott Lilienfield
Research Interests: Prevalence and implications of psychopathic personality traits in the corporate world, specifically combinations of psychopathic traits that lead to success versus failure in business.

Anne Winiarski, anne.winiarski@emory.edu, Advisor: Patricia Brennan
Research Interests: Investigating the neural, behavioral, and genetic correlates of child and adolescent externalizing behaviors.

Daniel Yoo, daniel.yoo@emory.edu, Advisor: Edward Craighead

Huaiyu Zhang, hzhan39@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory
Research Interests: Culture and mental health, alternative treatment for maternal depression.