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Congratulations to our Spring 2025 graduate degree recipients

The University of Georgia Department of Psychology proudly recognizes the following graduate students who have earned their doctoral and master's degrees this Spring 2025. 

PhD 

Colin Gardner, The Influence of Action Video Games on Visual-Motor and Cognitive Function

Mentor:  Randy Hammond

 

Riley Hess, A Comparison of Modern Machine Learning Methods for Applied Attrition Modeling

Mentor:  Neal Outland

 

Dominique La Barrie, Ethnic-Racial Socialization Messages in Multigenerational Latinx Families:  How Do Parents' and Grandparents' Messages Impact Emerging Adults?

Mentor:  Anne Shaffer

 

Rose LeFevre-Levy, Perceptions of Neurodivergent Workers:  Understanding Expected Behavioral Reactions Using the Stereotype Content Model and the Social Model of Disability

Mentor:  Malissa Clark

 

Apoorva Sarmal, Looking Under the Hood:  Creating and Validating a Measurement of White Cultural Values in the U.S.

Mentor:  Allison Skinner

 

Hayley Trainer, An Investigation of Gender Differences in the Perception and Enactment of Leadership Relationships in Teams

Mentor:  Dorothy Carter

 

MS

Yaw Buabeng, The Effect of Wavelength on 2-Point Light Thresholds

Mentor:  Randy Hammond

 

Nina Carmichael-Tanaka, Taking AIM at What It Means to Be Asian: Development of the Asian Identity Measure (AIM)

Mentor:  Neal Outland

 

Meg Fyan, Cascades of Learning Through Play: The Relation Between Movement, Attention, and Language in the Second Year of Life

Mentor:  Janet Frick

 

Brittnee Hampton, The Role of Effort Perceptions in Evaluations of Subjective Task Value in Peers

Mentor:  Michelle vanDellen

 

Anna Knippenberg, Resting-State Functional Connectivity Within Social Brain Networks Show Differential Associations with Negative Symptom Domains in Schizophrenia

Mentor:  Greg Strauss

 

Kate Lindig, The Role of Negative Affectivity in the Relation between Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Toddlers' Language Outcomes

Mentor:  Janet Frick

 

Hailey Warren, The Basic NeuroCognitive Continuum (BANCC): Modeling the Affiliation of Neurobiological and Cognitive Measures in Psychosis

Mentor:  Brett Clementz

 

Cameron Wysocky, The Relationship Between Macular Pigment, Visual Range, and Brightness Perception

Mentor:  Randy Hammond

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