Ryan Grant Graduate Student, Industrial-Organizational Program Education Education: B.A., Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience, North Central College.
Cassidy Gaddie Doctoral Candidate, Industrial-Organizational Program Education Education: M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia (2024) Thesis: Why "pandemic work" hurts: An investigation of explanatory mechanisms between COVID-19 exposure and motivational outcomes B.A., Psychology with a Minor in Nonprofit Organizational Studies, University of Oklahoma (2020) Research Research Interests: Employee well-being; DEI; Employee life cycle; Selection and assessment
Brinkley Sharpe Graduate Student, Clinical Program Brinkley received her MS in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2022. Her doctoral research focuses on perceptions of and self-identification with general and maladaptive personality traits, including endorsement of a "cardinal" or dominant trait. Brinkley is an enthusiastic advocate of open science approaches as forces for transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and self-correction in science. Brinkley's primary clinical interests are the treatment of trauma-related pathology, psychodiagnostic assessment and case formulation, and working with LGBTQ+ clients. Brinkley likes cats, board games, jigsaw puzzles, pinball, and yoga. Education Education: B.A., Psychology, University of Virginia, 2013 M.S., Psychology, University of Georgia, 2022 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 Graduate Alumni, Clinical Program Education Education: 2020 - M.S. William & Mary (Experimental Psychology) 2017 - B.A. University of Washington (Community Psychology) Research Research Interests: I am interested in understanding inter- and intra-personal factors that help to buffer the development of internalizing symptoms (i.e., anxious, depressive, somatic). Within a biopsychosocial framework, I examine the role of self-regulation, close interpersonal relationships with parents an friends, and synchrony using biobehavioral markers to identify how best to support youth's psychological development. Dissertation/Thesis Title: Negative Parental Emotion Socialization Predicts Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms: A Moderated Mediation with Latent Variables (Thesis Title) The impact of Sociocultural Risk and Protective Factors on Trajectories of Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms using the ABCD Study (Dissertation Title)
Andrea George Graduate Student, Clinical Program 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 Graduate Student, Clinical Program 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.
