Research Experience

Assisted with a clinical study on a PTSD prevention aiming to disrupt memory reconsolidation using a visuospatial computer task under Dr. Kenneth Abrams

Co-authored a review of biochemical challenge procedures used to evaluate novel anxiolytics (sourced and tagged 100+ articles in Zotero, drafted and revised manuscript)

Maintained, set up and used virtual reality (VR) equipment in participant sessions

Screened participants for psychiatric disorders and ran them through a 1-hour experimental protocol

Reviewed literature on immersiveness effects and cognitive processes, helped draft write-up (in preparation for submission)

Managed lab schedule and communication with participants

Trained junior research assistants

Designed 200+ mock social media posts using Canva

Built complex Qualtrics survey leveraging skip logic, embedded data, and piped text

Reviewed literature on the ethics of and memorial processes involved in misinformation

Recruited and ran 100+ participants in person and online via Prolific

Cleaned and analyzed data in R using t-tests and ANOVAs

Synthesized findings into a 50-page report and presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference, and talk on campus

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Reviewed literature on restorative VR nature films, developed study protocol and petitioned department to allow an empirical thesis project

Obtained IRB approval and $780 in grant funding to conduct and present research

Sourced and wrote questionnaires, revised and coded computer tasks, structured Qualtrics survey

Ran 100 participants through multimodal VR simulations and tracked physiological arousal

Analyzed within- and between-subjects Likert responses, heart rate data, and cognitive task performance scores using ANOVAs, t-tests, and regression models in R and JASP; created data visualizations

Synthesized findings into a 40-page report and presented posters at the Minnesota Psychological Association Annual Conference and the Minnesota Undergraduate Psychology Conference

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Selected for the competitive (~10% accepted) SOURCE program under Dr. Jared Medina

Designed and conducted a study exploring the malleability of the body schema and tactile remapping using the Anne Boleyn illusion, which induces embodiment of a supernumerary finger

Recruited, ran, and conducted qualitative interviews with 35 participants

Analyzed survey responses using nonparametric tests and Bayesian analyses

Reviewed literature on multisensory perception and summarized findings in a 30-page report (in preparation for submission)

Worked on a cross-cultural study on early visual learning under Dr. Michael C. Frank

Recruited families and ran 60 child participants at the Children's Discovery Museum, maintained the research space, organized data

Worked on a study examining performance on a golf putting task as a function of perceived luck and social comparison under Dr. Neil Lutsky

Entered and organized data in SPSS Statistics

Reviewed literature on social comparison

Drafted and revised Introduction and Method sections of manuscript