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PhD Students


Aline Da Silva Frost
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Yilin Andre Wang
Hannah Kramer
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Aline da Silva Frost

​My interests gravitate around how we process, evaluate and apply information about the social world. I am investigating attitudes towards attributes, how they develop and what factors influence our preferences. 
​Email: ​asfrost@ucdavis.edu

​​Chris Coleman

My interests lie in intergroup interactions, specifically those dealing with groups who have historically been wronged or victimized. My ultimate hope is for my research to help aid actions that can lead to repairing past injustices.
Email: cwcoleman@ucdavis.edu

Yilin (Andre) Wang

I study how people connect abstract ideas to concrete experience. Abstract ideas, such as what people think they like or value, help them navigate a world beyond their immediate, sensory experience. But where do these abstract ideas come from? What happens when people’s abstract ideas—about themselves, other people, and the world—become disconnected from actual, context-specific experiences? My research incorporates insights and methods from social, cognitive, and quantitative psychology to answer these questions in the domains of person perception and moral judgment. In addition, I study how researchers’ abstract ideals of scientific methods might diverge from their concrete practices of conducting research, with a focus on implications for statistical validity.
Email: ​ylawang@ucdavis.edu
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​Hannah Kramer

I study developmental changes and continuities in theory of mind, emotion understanding, and temporal reasoning. More specifically, I am interested in children's and adults' beliefs about the time course of mental states. ​
Email: hjkramer@ucdavis.edu
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Azra Jahanitabesh

Social cognition; social categorization; decision making; emotion perception; facial attractiveness.
Email: ajahanitabesh@ucdavis.edu 
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Research Assistants


Ani Shenai
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Research Assistant
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Cara Burks
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Research Assistant
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Clare Hawkins
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Research Assistant (Spring 2020 - present)

Darya Buchholz
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Research Assistant
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Jacob Diaz
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Research Assistant
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Katherine Weltzien
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Lab Manager (Summer 2020 - present)
​Research Assistant
(Fall 2019 - Spring 2020)

Katrina Gonzales
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Research Assistant
(Fall 2019 - present)

Maria Sanchez
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Research Assistant
(Winter 2019 - present)

Mehek Nirula
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Research Assistant
​(Spring 2020 - present)

Niharika Baghel
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Research Assistant
(Spring 2020 - present)

Raayha Bhatti
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Research Assistant
(Spring 2020 - present)

Roberto James Refuerzo Balderas

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Research Assistant
(Fall 2020 - present)

Srilaxmi Pappoppula

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Research Assistant
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Sylvia Liu
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Research Assistant
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Trevor Crowell
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Research Assistant
(Fall 2020 - present)

Zitlalic Zarate

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Research Assistant
(Winter 2020 - present)

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