Ryan Grant Graduate Student, Industrial-Organizational Program Education Education: B.A., Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience, North Central College.
Cassidy Gaddie Graduate Student, Industrial-Organizational Program Education Education: M.S., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia (2024) 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.
Apoorva Sarmal Alumni, Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Apoorva Sarmal is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) program at the University of Georgia. She works in the Georgia Attitudes, Bias, and Behavior Acquisition (GABBA) Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Skinner. She examines social inequalities and negative impacts of social hierarchies which pervade our day-to-day lives. Specifically, Apoorva researches social hierarchies such as race and gender to promote diversity and inclusion. She integrates multiple methodological approaches including, but not limited to, social-cognitive experiments, randomized interventions, qualitative interviews, multi-level models, secondary data analysis, and scale development to rigorously investigate these research questions. Education Education: M.S. in Psychology, University of Georgia, 2022 M.A. in French Linguistics, Indiana University-Bloomington, 2019 B.A. in French (minor: Psychology), University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2017 B.S. in Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2017 Research Research Interests: Social Psychology; Stereotyping; Prejudice; Racism; Sexism Grants: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Heritage Dissertation Research Award 2024 ($2,000) Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues Grants-in-Aid 2024 ($1,000) Psi Chi Mamie Phipps Clark Diversity Research Grant 2024 ($1,000) Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Grant 2024, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia ($1,500) George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship 2022, University of Georgia ($2,000) Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award 2021 from Society of Personality and Social Psychology ($1,000) Selected Publications Selected Publications: *Sarmal, A., ~*Cha, L., *Skinner, A.L. (in press). Shifts in Racial Inequalities and White Backlash in the 21st Century U.S. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Rogbeer, K. G., Sarmal, A., Ware, C., Zhu, J. (2023). Challenging Race-Based Medicine Through Historical Education About the Social Construction of Race. Health Equity, 7(1), 764-772. https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2023.0036 Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., Sarmal, A., Rogbeer, K., André, C. J., Patel, B., & Cha, L. (2022). Highlighting COVID-19 Racial Disparities Can Reduce Support for Safety Precautions Among White U.S. Residents. Social Science and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114951 Skinner-Dorkenoo, A. L., ˆSarmal, A., ˆAndré, C. J., & Rogbeer, K. G. (2021). How microaggressions reinforce and perpetuate systemic racism in the U.S. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(5), 903-925. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211002543 Other Information Of note: Summer 2024 - Summer Scholar Intern, National Science Foundation Summer Scholar. Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES, National Science Foundation/Quality Education for Minorities Network, Washington, D.C. & Alexandria, VA Summer 2023 - Fellow, National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Social and Personality Psychology (SISPP). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (Course: Toward Theorizing and Studying Emotion as a Multi-level System of Systems: From Cell to Self to Society) Summer 2023: Teaching Assistant, Regression Analysis II Linear Models, ICPSR, University of Michigan.
