Congratulations to all the SCAD Lab members who graduated in May and August 2025! In May, Stephanie Hammett, Liliana Rojo, Xander Shannon, and Cassidy Watkins all graduated with their MA degrees in Psychological Research. Frequent SCAD Lab collaborators also graduated
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Lab members present at INSAR and SRCD
Several lab members presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research and the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development this May. Xander Shannon (MA ’25) and Lyra Pradhan Reign (BA ’20) presented
Lab members win poster awards
SCAD lab members won multiple Texas State poster awards this month. Katelyn Domer won first place undergraduate poster at Psychology Day and second place at the College of Liberal Arts competition. Her poster was based on her honors thesis and
SCAD Lab Attends Virtual Conferences
SCAD lab members and collaborators attended a variety of virtual conferences this spring, presenting their work to folks around the globe. Student and alum presenters included Aleyda Arreola, Callie De La Cerda, Katelyn Domer, Connor MacKinnon, Steven Mesquiti, Kaitlyn Lavery,
Lab paper accepted
A new paper has been accepted in Emotion co-authored by lab alumni Callie De La Cerda and Ashley Frost. In the study, we found that people who spontaneously looked more at the eyes of characters during film clips also had higher
Thesis defense
Dominique Gutierrez successfully defended her Master’s thesis this week. She examined the relation between psychopathy traits and willingness to tell different types of lies. She was a fantastic student in our program and we will miss her in lab. Congratulations
Lab paper accepted
A new paper has been accepted in Personality and Individual Differences led by lab alum Paul Pluymen and co-authored by lab alumni Allison Pequet and Hailey Thomas. In the study, people completed a chat task in which they could choose to
Thesis defense
Ashley Myers successfully defended her thesis this week. Her research examined the relation between schizotypal traits and visual attention to photographs of one’s own face and photographs of strangers’ faces. Her research reflects her passion for clinical psychology and we
Lab paper accepted
A new paper has been accepted in Social Development led by lab alum Allison Pequet. The project tackled the question of how social anxiety relates to theory of mind, or thinking about others’ thoughts and feelings. We found that children’s social
Lab paper accepted
A new paper has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology led by SCAD Lab graduate Callie De La Cerda. The study examined young children’s willingness to tell lies to in-group versus out-group members. Researchers found that children were