Calling for RA’s!!! We want students who can start in spring and also work the summer! Please go to our website and go to “student research opportunity” for more info. Looking forward to your app! Please spread the word!

✨️Meet Shannon's dissertation team!✨️ We're about…*checks watch* 7 months late on our intros, but I figured a lil late is better than never! And hey, there's 7 RAs so maybe that's a lil serendipitous. Can you believe the team has two sets of birthday twins–what are the odds? It's crazy how we started this up in May/June because it feels like I've had them with me forever. From making calls to running visits to clipping videos to transcribing interviews to cleaning psychophys to coding data; from boxes breaking and kiddos crying to three-a-day visits and the internet going out in the middle of things–they've been with me through every rise and fall of this dissertation process and we're going to keep chugging along to the finish line in June (or until the wheels fall off)🚌 thank you for joining me on this wild ride–and happy Galentine's day! #dissertation #psychology #developmentalscience #research #researchassistants #gradschool #gradstudents #teambonding #galentinesday

🧠👃 Longer vid than usual, but stay with us bc we’re diving into some sci comm! Ever notice how a whiff of something can bring back a major sense of déja vu? That’s because smell is directly wired to our brain’s emotion & memory centers—and research suggests it might even help protect cognitive health as we age! 🌱💭 Inspired by Dr. Michael Leon’s work, we’re putting our understanding of olfactory enrichment to use with a “sniffy walk.” Can actively smelling more scents each day boost mood & memory? Watch to find out! #emotions #research #psych #science #psychology #gradschool #sciencecomm #scicomm #scent #smell #brain

Meet our new research assistants and graduate students! We did the candy salad trend 🍬🍪🍭 Shoutout to @shayybray for the favorite emoji idea! Comment your favorite emoji and candy below!

This may be a stretchhhhh content-wise, but go with me here: diff ppl associate diff facial expressions (and vocal expressions) with the same feeling. Kind of like how you can ask one person to make a face with ONE sound in mind, and someone else may have a whole other sound instead. Other times, those imagined sounds might converge. It's interesting to think about how we all have a shared concept of "anger" or "sadness" even if we might have different ideas of how those feelings manifest. #research #psychology #emotions

I love my team, but how well do I know them?? 🤔💝 We're working hard to keep the content going–let us know if you have any ideas for us to try!