#  Second-Year Project Talks 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 5, 2025** 

 10:00AM - 02:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Northwest Labs B103**  

There will be a reception following the talks in the NW Basement (B100) until 4:00pm. All are welcome to attend!

 

 

 



 

**10:00am: Welcome and Introduction,** Leah Somerville, Director of Graduate Studies

**10:05am: Emily Stekl**, Advisor: Liz Phelps, Reader: Dan Schacter

*Emotional Access to the Past: Emotion and Memory Reconsolidation*

**10:20am: Christina Steele**, Advisor: Ashley Thomas, Reader: Fiery Cushman

*Do Great Apes Represent Caregiving Relationships?*

**10:35am: Jenna Wilson**, Advisor: Dan Schacter, Reader: Liz Phelps

*Simulating the Future: Phenomenal Characteristics Across Trait Worry and Time*

**10:50am: Mack Briscoe**, Advisor: Ashley Thomas, Reader: Fiery Cushman

*When to speak up: how children reason about group dynamics*

**11:05am: 10 minute break**

**11:15am: Yuhui Huang**, Advisor: Jesse Snedeker, Reader: Elika Bergelson

*Switching meanings and forms: How do bilinguals process code-switched speech?*

**11:30am: Shachar Ruppin**, Advisor: Rich McNally, Reader: Fiery Cushman

*Deliberate Attempts to Avoid Threats, or Overly Stubborn Habits? A Hybrid Model of Compulsions Informed by Longitudinal Network Analyses*

**11:45am: Lucas Woodley**, Advisor: Josh Greene, Reader: Mina Cikara

*Ethnic Dominance and Democratic Quality Across Six Decades and 90 Countries*

**12:00pm: Lunch break**

**1:15pm: Briony Waite**, Advisor: Jesse Snedeker, Reader: Elika Bergelson

*The development of lexical access and linguistic prediction: Adapting story-based EEG tasks to understand comprehension in preschoolers*

**1:30pm: David Lin,** Advisor: Jason Mitchell, Reader: Fiery Cushman

*“It is Nothing Personal," Or Is It? --- Differentiating Anger Targeted at the Situation vs. the Person*

**1:45pm: Kai Krautter**, Advisor: Ellen Langer, Reader: Patrick Mair

*The Mindful Employee: The Role of Langerian Mindfulness in Job Performance and Burnout*

**2:00pm: Ioana Dalca,** Advisor: Jason Mitchell, Reader: Fiery Cushman

*Dynamics of social-cognitive pathways to transcendental emotions: Affective mentalising in aesthetic narratives*

**2:15pm: Yuri-Grace Ohashi**, Advisor: Matt Nock, Reader: Kate McLaughlin

*How Adolescents Think about Stress: A Longitudinal Study of Stress Mindset and Psychopathology*

**2:30pm: Reception,** Northwest Labs B100



 

 



 

 

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