A Lab Photo: back: Jared Lessard, Julienne Palbusa, Eileen Haddad, Leilei Mei. Middle: Karen Wu, Yanyan Zhang, Bi Zhu, Bernadeth Torres, Jeff Cho. Front: Christina Pedram, Morgan Voeltz, Ellen Greenberger, Chuansheng Chen. Not pictured: Kyle Chang.
Current Students
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Kyle Chang is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. His current areas of interest include cross-cultural issues related to help seeking behaviors of ethnic minorities. Email: kechang@uci.edu.
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Jeff Cho is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. His research interests concern the cognitive processes that underlie perspective taking, and possible cultural differences in these empathic processes. Email: jccho@uci.edu. |
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Eileen Haddad, M.A. is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. Her research interests include the social and academic contexts of adolescent development. Email: ehaddad@uci.edu. |
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Bernadeth Torres is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. Her current area of interest is late adolescence, in particular, ethnic differences in the transition from high school to college and in academic achievement. Email: torresb@uci.edu |
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Jared Lessard is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. His research interests include parent and peer influences on adolescent health behaviors and academic achievement. Email: jlessard@uci.edu
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Christina Pedram is a doctoral student in the department of Psychology and Social Behavior. Her current areas of interest include the influence of culture on individuals' interpersonal and moral judgments, stereotyping and prejudice reduction, religiosity, and implicit attitudes. Email: cpedram@uci.edu |
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Morgan Voeltz. Morgan Voeltz is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. Her current interests include cultural and political psychology. Email: mvoeltz@uci.edu |
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Karen Wu is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. She is currently interested in the interplay of culture, society, and personality on self-concept, body image, affect, and relationships, including attachment style and love. Email: karenw1@uci.edu |
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Yanyan Zhang, M.A. is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. She is currently conducting cross-cultural studies of moral reasoning and punishment of transgressions. Email: yanyan.zhang@uci.edu |
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Current Visiting Lab Members |
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Leilei Mei is a visiting junior specialist in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at UCI, and a doctoral student at Beijing Normal University, China. He is studying neural bases of second-language learning. Email: mll830925@126.com |
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Julienne Palbusa is a newcomer to California and is visiting the lab this year. Her current interests include ethnic identity development during adolescence and young adulthood and family and peer influences on adolescent development and behavior across and within cultures. Email: japalb@gmail.com |
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Bi Zhu is a visiting junior specialist in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior of UCI, and a doctoral student at Beijing Normal University, China. Her current areas of interest include individual differences in false memory, behavior and genetics, and cultural influence on false memory. Email: biz@uci.edu |