NYU Psychology PhD Student Research

Student			Affiliations	Research question (one per lab)
Elizabeth Allen			Cognition & Perception	For children and for adults, what counts as a good answer to a why-question?
Christopher Burke			Social	How do significant others affect coping and self-regulatory efforts? (with Niall Bolger & Pat Shrout) How do mental processes combine to determine social judgments? (with Jim Uleman) How does positive mood influence self-regulation? (with Yaacov Trope)
Julie Chen			Social	Why does the same behavior result in different work consequences when performed by a man vs. a woman?
Eric DeWitt			Cognition & Perception Developmental	What are the neural mechanisms that underlie decision making and how can we integrate neural, behavioral and economic models of human choice?
Katja Doerschner			Cognition & Perception	What information about the light field does the visual system represent when estimating the color of matte surfaces, and what cues does it use to extract this information from the scene?
Irina Feygina			Social	How do experiences with different cultural and political contexts influence perceptions of procedural justice, the negotiation of multiple social identities, political engagement, and acculturation? (with Tom Tyler) How do immigrants begin to justify the American social system and respond to associated stereotypes? (with John Jost)
Kentaro Fujita			Social	What are the factors that enhance and impair self-control? (with Yaacov Trope) How do people select and implement their goals? (with Peter Gollwitzer & Gabriele Oettingen)
Stuart Fuller			Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect stimulus appearance?
Jacqueline Fulvio			Cognition & Perception	How do people fill in the missing portions of objects that are subject to occlusion by camouflage or other objects that vary in their degree of transparency/opacity?
Anna Gassman-Pines			Community Quantitative Developmental	What is the relationship between mothers' working conditions, parenting, and children's development in low-income families?
Holly Gerhard			Cognition & Perception	How does the visual system accomplish color constancy?
Simone Gill-Alvarez			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do children and adults develop behavioral flexibility - the ability to adapt their movements to changes in local conditions?
Anna Marie Giordano			Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect the temporal aspect of visual information processing?
Celia Gonzalez			Social Developmental	How do people manage their membership in social groups, and how does this shape their thoughts about themselves and others?
Amie Green			Social	How do coping behaviors influence negative mood on a daily basis when under stress? (with Pat Shrout)
Michelle Haynes			Social	To what extent do women receive and take disproportionately less credit for their involvement in successful outcomes? (with Madeline Heilman) How does regulatory focus impact your willingness to voice concern about inequitable systems? (with John Jost)
Marlone Henderson			Social	What is the impact of different types of cognitive orientations, which are triggered by factors such as psychological distance and self-regulatory mindsets, on the resolution of different forms of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict?
Yun-Xian Ho			Cognition & Perception	How do we perceive three-dimensional texture, roughness?
Aaron Hoffman			Cognition & Perception	How do people discover useful information?
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff			Social	What are the effects of procedural justice in legal negotiation; specifically, how do assessments of the fairness of process in a legal negotiation affect lawyers' evaluations of the negotiated outcome?
Masumi Iida			Social	How do relationships help or hinder individuals coping with stress? (with Pat Shrout)
Akiko Ikkai			Cognition & Perception	How do our brains plan, remember, execute, and evaluate motor actions?
Shaziela Ishak			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do infants learn to make adaptive motor decisions in risky situations?
Amy Joh			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do infants, children, and adults learn to guide their actions prospectively?
Shin Woo Kim			Cognition & Perception	What is the role of causal reasoning in categorization and induction?
Daniel Kirk			Social	What are the effects of self-regulation on creative problem-solving? (with Peter Carnevale & Peter Gollwitzer) What role does justice play in social dilemmas? (with Tom Tyler)
Yephat Kivetz			Social	Which factors affect the tradeoff between instrumental and identity motives? (with Tom Tyler)
Laura Kressel			Social	How are our decisions influenced by temporal perspective?
Alison Ledgerwood			Social	Why do people believe in the American Dream and other system-justifying ideas? (with John Jost) How do social groups influence our attitudes outside of awareness? (with Shelly Chaiken)
Sara Levens			Cognition & Perception	How does emotion interact with the executive process of inhibition in working memory, what are the neural underpinnings of this interaction, and what does this interaction reveal about emotion processing, goal-oriented behavior, and inhibitory function?
Samuel Ling			Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect how we see?
Leah Lurye			Social Developmental	How does gender development relate to issues of identity, social judgments of others, and adjustment?
Anesu Mandisodza			Social	How do people perceive, interpret and respond to threatening and/or changing social systems?
Andrea Martin			Cognition & Perception	What is the role of memory and attention in human sentence processing?
Crystal Matsibekker			Social	How do status, emotion and identity impact negotiation and decision-making?
Saaid Mendoza			Social	How does the stereotype-confirming behavior of an ingroup member influence one's interactions with outgroup members? (with Madeline Heilman) How might self regulatory processes reduce prejudiced response? (with David Amodio)
Goran Milovanovic			Cognition & Perception	How does background knowledge interact with empirical data in concept learning and how do we construct features of concepts in the light of prior knowledge?
Barbara Montagna			Cognition & Perception	How does covert attention affect spatial and temporal aspects of vision, such as spatial resolution and perceived flicker rate?
Leila Montaser Kouhsari			Cognition & Perception	Where in the visual pathway do we process illusory contours?
Jaime Napier			Social	What motivates the adoption of an ideology?
Andreas Olsson			Cognition & Perception	What are the neural and cognitive processes involved in learning emotionally significant information from, and about, others?
Ilke Oztekin			Cognition & Perception	How do we retrieve information from working memory?
Elizabeth Parks-Stamm			Social	When do strategies help or hamper goal pursuit? How do conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit differ? How do we interpret nonconsciously-activated goal striving? How can subtyping be used to protect the self?
Franco Pestilli			Cognition & Perception	How does spatial covert attention affect contrast sensitivity at attended and unattended locations?
Gaëlle Pierre			Social	How can we increase engagement and cooperation in groups and between groups? (with Peter Carnevale, Tom Tyler, Elke Weber) Why are women penalized for success in male domains? (with Madeline Heilman)
Polina Potanina			Social	How do the automatic components of racial and gender bias interact with consciously-held beliefs about such biases? (with David Amodio) How do such biases help perpetuate the hierarchical structure of society? (with John Jost)
Hugh Rabagliati			Cognition & Perception Developmental	What mechanisms do infants use to discover and then acquire language?
Maria Ramos			Community Developmental	What is the relationship between maternal work goals, welfare-to-work program assignment, and children’s academic and behavioral outcomes?
SoYon Rim			Social	Are spontaneous trait inferences controllable once they have been formed? (with Jim Uleman) How does psychological distance from others influence our implicit impressions of them? (with Jim Uleman and Yaacov Trope)
Ann Rivera			Community Developmental	What social processes and forms of competence promote positive development among adolescents growing up in low-income neighborhoods? (with Ed Seidman and Diane Hughes) How do government and community-based programs affect children and adolescents in low-income families? (with Hirokazu Yoshikawa)
Adil Saribay			Social	Can people control implicit impressions' effects? (with Jim Uleman) Are relational and collective selves linked? (with Susan Andersen)
Gwendolyn Seidman			Social	How does idealizing one's romantic partner affect relationship processes?
Sarah Shuwairi Carton			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do coherent object representations develop in early infancy? (with Scott Johnson) What are the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying our perception of continuous and coherent 3D objects under conditions of occlusion? (with Scott Johnson, Clay Curtis, and Nava Rubin)
Peter Sokol-Hessner			Cognition & Perception	What is the neural basis of a decision?
Kasey Soska			Cognition & Perception Developmental	How does the perception of 3D objects develop over the first year of life? (with Scott Johnson) How does infant manual exploration develop in various postures? (with Karen Adolph)
Bernhard Staresina			Cognition & Perception	What are the neurocognitive mechanisms of memory encoding and retrieval?
Hadley Tassinari			Cognition & Perception	Can human subjects optimally combine prior information with current evidence during a rapid motor task?
Hulda Thórisdóttir			Social	What causes people to become either politically liberal or conservative?
Jennifer Thorpe			Social	Can significant others help increase accuracy in getting to know new people? (with Susan Andersen) How do self-regulatory strategies interact to influence feelings of controllability? (with Gabriele Oettingen and Peter Gollwitzer)
Jojanneke van der Toorn			Social	What are the antecedents of meritocracy beliefs? (with John Jost) How do structural and individual characteristics predict justice judgments, perceived legitimacy and political participation? (with Tom Tyler and John Jost)
Cheryl Wakslak			Social	How does the basis for decisions and self-evaluations change as a function of psychological distance? (with Yaacov Trope) How do individuals negotiate their affect in the context of the social systems to which they belong? (with John Jost)
Aaron Wallen			Social	How do negotiators react to negotiation structural asymmetries in terms of advantage perceptions, strategies and tactics? (with Peter Carnevale) With what attributes do people ascribe women and men who demonstrate success in opposite gender-typed work settings? (with Madeline Heilman)
Dawn Witherspoon			Community Quantitative Developmental	How are positive neighborhood processes and structural characteristics related to adolescent development among ethnically diverse groups?
Shih-Wei Wu			Cognition & Perception	How do humans plan movements in environments where explicit costs and benefits are specified?
Kristina Zosuls			Social Developmental	Do girls play with dolls because they know they are girls and that's what girls do? (with Diane Ruble) What are people’s attitudes towards women balancing careers and motherhood? (with Madeline Heilman)
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