Gain more information about research, internships, and your department by watching the videos in our database.
Video Database
Video Database
Get to Know Your Faculty
- Dr. Kurt Fraser (Cognitive and Brain) 2025
- Some of Dr. Fraser's current research interests include: motivated behavior, dopamine-acetylcholine interactions, and associative learning. He additionally teaches classes on biological psychology and drugs of abuse.
- Dr. Alex Ajayi (Counseling Psychology) 2024
- Dr. Ajayi has two related lines of inquiry focused on social identity, health disparities, and well-being. He heads up a couple of different research labs on these topics, and he has taught PSY 3511 Intro to Counseling in the past.
- Dr. Cheryl Olman (Cognitive and Brain) 2024
- Some of Dr. Olman's current research interests include: visual psychometrics, neural imaging, and scene perception. She additionally teaches classes about sensation and perception and functional neuroimaging.
- Dr. Drexler James (Social Psychology) 2023
- Dr. Drexler James is currently researching Health Disparities and Equity, Social Determinants of Health, and Psychological Essentialism. Dr. Dexler James has taught classes on cultural and socio-cultural psychology.
- Dr. Deniz Ones (Industrial-Organizational Psychology) 2023
- Dr. Ones has taught Psy 5701 Organizational Staffing and Decision Making and has exciting PSY 5993 undergrad research opportunities to get involved with!
- Dr. Traci Mann (Social Psychology) 2022
- Dr. Mann specializes in eating disorders, self-control, and health behavior. Dr. Mann also runs the Health and Eating Laboratory. Watch the video where she talks about collaborating with NASA astronauts for weight gain studies.
- Dr. Amanda Woodward (Quantitative Psychology) 2021
- Dr. Woodward's research interests lie in early social cognition. She is interested in the ways we think about others, predict future behavior, choose friends, and how these processes change as we get older. Her current focus is on how children think about those who have included or excluded them and what factors influence these judgments.
- Dr. Bonnie Klimes-Dougan (Clinical Psychology) 2021
- Dr. Klimes-Dougan runs the Research in Adolescent Depression (RAD) Laboratory. Her research focuses on the neurobiology of mood disorders in adolescents. She is particularly interested in analyzing the risk factors associated with early-stage depression and suicidal risk.
- Dr. Iris Vilares (Cognitive and Brain) 2020
- Dr. Vilares is the head of the Decision Making Lab. Her research focuses on how decision-making differs in people with psychiatric and neurological diseases. She uses tools from cognitive neuroscience with neuroeconomics and computational models to analyze this.
Internship Panels
- Fall 2023 Student Internship Panel
- Attendees include Co-Facilitator for Group Counseling at Stepping Stone Clinic, Program and Youth Engagement Intern at LiveMore Screen Less, and High School Tutor
- Spring 2021 Student Internship Panel
- Attendees include Program Assistant at Riesci Inc., Human Resources at ARC Minnesota, Group Therapy Support at Washburn Center for Children, and Mental Health Worker at Andrew Residence
Research Panels
- Spring 2024 Psychology Student Research Panel (Research Areas: Counseling and Clinical)
- Social Team Research in Promoting Health Equity (STRIPE) Lab (Melissa Ertl), Health and Emotions in Adolescents Trajectories (HEAT) Lab (Karina Quevedo), Anxiety Neuroscience Grounded in Cross-Species Translation (ANGST) Lab (Shmuel Lissek)
- Fall 2022 Psychology Student Research Panel (Research Areas: Social and Clinical)
- Social Interaction Lab (Jeffrey Simpson), Health & Eating Lab (Traci Mann), Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research (Matt McGue), Cognition, Aging, and Technology (CAT) Lab (Adriana Hughes), Minds, Brains & Environments Lab (Wilma Koutstaal), Research and Psychology in Madrid (Learning Abroad Center)
- Fall 2020 Psychology Student Research Panel (Research Areas: Counseling, Clinical, Personality, Individual Differences, and Behavioral Genetics (PIB), Social, Cognitive and Brain, and Developmental)
- Promoting Teen Attachment and Development (PTAD) Lab (Meredith Gunlicks-Stoessel), FamiLee Lab (Rich Lee), Narrative, Identity, Culture, and Ethnicity (N.I.C.E) Lab (Moin Syed), Child Wellbeing Research Group (Canan Karatekin), Project Competence Research on Risk and Resilience (Ann Masten), Brain and Behavioral Processes Lab (Monica Luciana), Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Stephanie Carlson & Phillip Zelazo), Snyder's Prosocial Lab (Mark Snyder), Decision Making Lab (Iris Vilares), and Research in Adolescent Depression (RAD) Lab (Bonnie Klimes-Dougan)
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