Student / Trainee Spotlight

Our students and trainees are doing exceptional work! In this section, we “spotlight” students and trainees each semester who are doing exciting work. We highlight both research and non-academic accomplishments.

Currently, we are highlighting our graduate student DIB Fellow! Our DIB fellows have done amazing work focused on expanding efforts focused on diversity, inclusion and belonging here in our department.

Current Feature

Adam Omary

Photo of Adam Omary (Grad Student)

What does DIB mean to you?

Respect for individual differences is central to my interpretation of Harvard’s commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging. To cultivate and sustain a culture where DIB flourishes, we must understand that one’s perspective is powerfully shaped by a lifetime of diverse experiences. This is especially true in Psychology, where understanding how individual differences in genes, environment, and experience shape emotion, cognition, and behavior is of central importance. (Research is me-search.) A commitment to DIB entails appreciating that one's beliefs are logical extensions of their own unique upbringing. Engaging with diverse perspectives – even those entirely at odds with our own values – allows us to understand novel perspectives from which to view the world, and create a community greater than the sum of its parts.

 

Student / Trainee Spotlight

Fall 2023 - Second Year Projects

In Fall 2023, our third year psychology graduate students presented on their second year projects. A wonderful job was done by all!

Camille PhaneufCharacterizing Age-Related Change in Learning the Value of Cognitive Effort

Yang XiangActual and counterfactual effort contribute to responsibility attributions in collaborative tasks

William OrwigThe Language of Creativity: Evidence from Humans and Large Language Models

Yiqiao Wang, Young children’s representation of large exact numbers: A case study of the number five

Jacob PrinceA contrastive coding account of category selectivity in the ventral visual stream

Taylor McGuireExamining multidimensional discrimination, traumatic violence exposure in the media, racial trauma, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in a sample of diverse youth

Fenil Doshi, Cortical topographic motifs emerge in a self-organized map of object space

Siqi LinNeural Dissociation and Lateralization of Mentalizing and Mental State Concepts

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