Drew Abney Graduate Coordinator Assistant Professor, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program My research focuses on how behaviors and social interactions impact developmental trajectories throughout infancy and into toddlerhood. Studies conducted in my lab use various techniques: from conducting controlled laboratory experiments to free-flowing toy play sessions to collecting daylong multimodal (e.g., vocalizations, body movements, etc.) behavioral data. I’m motivated to apply existing techniques from applied computational social science and dynamical systems theory and also develop new computational and analytic methods to understand the dynamics of development during infancy and early childhood. *I am not recruiting graduate students during the 2023-24 application cycle* Education Education: Postdoctoral Scholar in Developmental Psychology at Indiana University (2016-2019) Ph.D. in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced (2016) Research Research Interests: sensorimotor development; human interaction; emotion regulation; perception/action; language development Selected Publications Selected Publications: Full list on my Google Scholar Profile Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C.T. (2021). Cooperation in sound and motion: Complexity matching in collaborative interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Abney, D.H., Suanda, S.H., Smith, L.B., Yu, C. (2020). What are the building blocks of parent-infant coordinated attention in free-flowing interaction? Infancy. Abney, D.H., Dale, R., Louwerse, M.M., & Kello, C.T. (2018). The Bursts and Lulls of Multimodal Interaction: Temporal Distributions of Behavior Reveal Differences Between Verbal and Non‐Verbal Communication. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1297-1316. Borjon, J.I., Abney, D.H., Smith, L.B., & Yu, C. (2018). Developmentally changing attractor dynamics of manual actions with objects in late infancy. Complexity. Abney, D.H., Warlaumont, A. S., Oller, D.K., Wallot, S., & Kello, C.T. (2017). Multiple coordination patterns in infant and adult vocalizations. Infancy, 22(4), 514-539. Abney, D.H., Paxton, A., Dale, R., & Kello, C.T. (2014). Complexity matching in dyadic conversation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(6), 2304. Abney, D.H., Warlaumont, A.S., Haussman, A., Ross, J.M., & Wallot, S. (2014). Using nonlinear methods to quantify changes in infant limb movements and vocalizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 771.
Ryan Grant Education Education: B.A., Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience, North Central College.
Cassidy Gaddie Education Education: B.A., Psychology with a Minor in Nonprofit Organizational Studies, University of Oklahoma Research Research Interests: Employee well-being; DEI; Employee life cycle; Selection and assessment
Brinkley Sharpe Brinkley Sharpe graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2013. She served as an indigent criminal defense investigator and a laboratory manager before joining the Clinical Psychology program at UGA. Education Education: B.A., Psychology, University of Virginia, 2013 Research Research Interests: Broadly, I study antagonism, impulsivity, and other externalizing psychopathology. I am additionally interested the structure of psychopathology, ambulatory assessment methods, and dynamic models of personality.
Molly E. Hale Education Education: 2020 - M.S. William & Mary (Experimental Psychology) 2017 - B.A. University of Washington (Community Psychology) Research Research Interests: I am an emotion researcher who seeks to better understand how close relationships during childhood and adolescence influence youth's emotional and psychological development through behavioral and physiological assessment. Dissertation/Thesis Title: Negative Parental Emotion Socialization Predicts Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms: A Moderated Mediation with Latent Variables (Thesis Title) Selected Publications Selected Publications: Hale, M. E., Morrow, K., George, A. M., Gayer, A., Caughy, M. O., & Suveg, C. (In press). Maternal negative. Affect moderates behavioral and physiological synchrony in Latinx and Black Mother-Child dyad. Developmental Psychobiology. https://doi.org/ 10.1002/dev.22394 Hale, M. E., George, A., Caughy, M. O., & Suveg, C. (In press). Resting respiratory sinus arrythmia and cognitive reappraisal moderate the link between political climate stress and anxiety symptoms in Latina and Black mothers. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2199207 Xu, J., Wang, H., Liu, S., Hale, M. E., Weng, X., Ahemaitijiang, N., Hu, Y., Suveg, C., & Han, Z. R. (In press). Relations among family, peer, and academic stress and adjustment in Chinese adolescents: A daily diary analysis. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001538 Hale, M. E., Price, N., Borowski, S., & Zeman, J. L. (In press). Adolescent emotion regulation trajectories: The influence of parent and friend emotion socialization. Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12834 Hale, M. E., & Zeman, J. L. (2023). Parents and friend in adolescence: Does their emotion socialization matter for internalizing symptoms? Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 85, 101513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101513 West, K. B., Hale, M. E., Roche, K. M., White, R. M. B., & Suveg, C. (2022). Predictors of latent class trajectories of depressive symptoms in Latina mothers. Journal of Family Psychology, 36(4), 545–554. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000957 Miller, M. E., Borowski, S., & Zeman, J. L (2020). Co-rumination moderates the relation between emotional competencies and depressive symptoms in adolescent best friend dyads: A longitudinal examination. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 48, 851-863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-020-00643-6
Andrea George Education Education: B.S., University of Georgia 2020 Research Research Interests: My research focuses on youth internalizing disorders within a developmental psychopathology framework. I seeks to understand how contextual factors and individual characteristics can impact maladaptive emotional development and later psychopathology in youth by exploring emotion socialization and regulation processes in samples of varying risk.
Jade Dandurand Jade graduated from Providence College with a B.A. in Psychology and a Neuroscience Certificate in 2018. She then worked as a clinical research assistant and clinical research coordinator at Butler Hospital's Memory & Aging Program in Providence, RI, working on experimental trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease, as well as building her clinical skills before joining the Clinical Psychology program at UGA in 2020.
