Faculty Achievements

Faculty Awards and Honors

Debrielle Jacques came in second place for the National Council on Family Relation’s (NCFR) Best Student/Early Career Presentation Award. Her solo-authored paper that received the honorable mention was titled, “Reframing Family Addiction via Multilevel Contextual & Developmental Lenses,” and was presented at NCFR’s Theory Construction and Research Methodology preconference in Baltimore, MD.

Priscilla Lui was selected to serve as a Standing Member for the Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study Section of the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review. Her term of service runs through June 2029.

Debrielle Jacques presented a roundtable on reproductive and psychological justice at the Association for Psychological Science Global Summit.

Faculty Publications

Priscilla Lui’s lab published a paper in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics titled, “Using Virtual Reality in Discrimination Research: Ethical Considerations and Participants’ Perspectives.”

Assistant professor Katherine Foster and grad student Laila Volpe co-wrote a paper for the Journal of Adolescent Health reposted on ScienceDirect.com titled, “The Protective Impact of Social Support on the Cascade Rates Between Internalizing Problems and Alcohol Misuse in Adolescence.”

Cheryl Kaiser appears in the bibliography for a paper on affective polarization published in Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Eun Joo Kim published a paper in Cell Reports representing the culmination of her R21 Grant Project.

Ariel Rokem recently published an editorial titled, “Human Brain Mapping at the Singularity,” published in Aperture Neuro.

In the News

Sapna Cheryan co-wrote a letter to the editor for The Exponent titled, “The Overlooked Benefits of DEI.”

Tabitha Kirland participated in a discussion about pursuing happiness in modern life at Third Place Books in Ravenna.

Susan Collins was quoted in the Kitsap Sun about the evolution of needle exchange programs.

Lucía Magis Weinberg was interviewed by Fox 13 Seattle about the response to cell phone bans in schools.

Betty Repacholi was quoted in a GOOD article about 15-month-old toddlers and how they can gauge visual and social cues to understand other people.

Susan Joslyn, professor emeritus of UW Psychology, was quoted in a WSOC TV story about the psychology behind weather prediction.

Vibh Forsythe-Cox was quoted in Vogue about how to navigate a trauma anniversary.

Sapna Cheryan was quoted in a Yahoo Finance article about women in corporate spaces reacting to a resurgence of combative, masculine leadership.