I am a PhD student in the Social-Personality area, working with Dr. Oz Ayduk of RASCL and Dr. Oliver P. John of the EER Lab. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023 with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. My research focuses on automating cognitive change strategies and exploring how agreeableness and other personality factors affect emotional responses. I am broadly interested in emotions, emotion regulation, bicultural experiences, and examining how habitual tendencies can influence emotional responding.

Research Interests: emotion, emotion regulation, personality, cultural frame switching

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I am a Ph.D. candidate interested in emotion and emotion regulation. Currently, I am exploring how different people select emotional situations and how changing selection patterns may improve well-being. I received my B.A. in Psychology from The College of St. Scholastica in 2019, and an M.Sc. In Psychological Research from the University of Oxford in 2021.

Research Interests: emotion, emotion regulation, psychophysiology, self-control, motivation

I am a doctoral student in the Social-Personality Psychology Area at UC Berkeley. My current work with Dr. Ozlem Ayduk and Dr. Serena Chen explores romantic relationships, intellectual humility, emotion regulation, sleep, and authenticity. I received my B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Michigan in 2020, after which I stayed on at Michigan as a lab manager for Dr. Amie Gordon’s Well-being, Health, and Interpersonal Relationships Lab. Ongoing projects with Dr. Gordon investigate political differences in romantic relationships and misperceptions of political others’ values.

Research Interests: Interpersonal relationships, emotion regulation, well-being, identity

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Originally from La Paz, Bolivia, I am a doctoral student and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Leading up to obtaining my bachelor’s degree in psychology from Shepherd University (WV), I attended two community colleges in Maryland, becoming a student-athlete in the process after successfully competing for an athletic scholarship to play soccer. My time in community college positioned me well to access pivotal academic and athletic scholarships to afford my studies at a four-year institution. After graduating from Shepherd, I continued my independent research as a post-bac there while working full time to build economic stability for graduate studies. Thanks largely to my year-long work as a post-bac, I then transitioned to American University (Washington D.C) with graduate-support funds, where I obtained my master’s degree in Social-Personality Psychology before transitioning here.

Research Interests: Interpersonal communication and emotion, psychophysiology, culture- identity-interactions, intersectionality, personality perception and development.

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