Lab Updates

Lab Updates

May 2022

Congratulations to….

our graduate student, Jacqueline Perez, for receiving both the Graduate Research Mentorship Award for the 2022-2023 school year, as well as the 2022 Clara Leplin & Beatrice Rasof Fellowship!

Dr. Ben Karney for receiving the 2022 Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research!

April 2022

Congratulations to…

…our lab fellow, Jacqueline Huerta, who accepted admittance to a doctoral program in Social Psychology at the University of Minnesota this Fall!

…our lab fellow, Ángel Villicaña, who accepted admittance to a doctoral program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Utah this Fall!

…our research assistant, Darla Mirsky, for accepting admittance to the MSW program at UCLA this fall!

March 2022

Congratulations to our lab fellow, Ángel Villicaña, for graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology and Gender Studies!

February 2022

Congratulations to our lab alum, Jaclyn Ross, for being the 2021 recipient of Michael J. Goldstein Distinguished Dissertation Award!

June 2021

Congratulations to…

…our graduate students, Julia Hammett and Jaclyn Ross, for graduating from their doctoral program in Clinical Psychology! Julia will go on to be a postdoctoral scholar in the Edson School of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University.

…our lab fellow, Fatima Alfaro, for graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology!

August 2020

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Bradbury for receiving the 2020 Ernest W. Burgess Award from the National Council on Family Relations! Administered since 1955, the award recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement during the course of a career in the study of families.

June 2020

Congratulations to our research assistant, Ariana Gonzales, for graduating from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology and minor in Cognitive Science! She will continue to gain experience in our lab as an administrative specialist and research project manager.

May 2020

Congratulations to…

…our graduate student, Lucy Shen, who was awarded the Liu Yunghuo Bei Qui Memorial Fellowship by UCLA’s Department of Psychology!

…our graduate students, Jaclyn Ross and Victor Kaufman, who have successfully defended their dissertations! Jaclyn will go on to complete her pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology, and Victor will continue in the UCLA Marriage as a postdoctoral researcher.

…our research assistant, Ariana Gonzales, who was accepted to present her Honors Thesis, “Acute Stress as a Predictor of Distinct Communication Processes in Close Relationships,” at Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC) and Undergraduate Research Week (URW) at UCLA this month!

April 2020

Congratulations to our graduate student, Stassja Sichko, who was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship!

March 2020

Congratulations to…

…our graduate student, Julia Hammett, for successfully defending her dissertation! In a few months, Julia will go on to complete her pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Psychology.

…our research assistant, Pavani Jonnalagadda, who will begin a doctoral program in Social-Personality Psychology at the University of California, Riverside this Fall!

February 2020

Congratulations to our graduate students, Julia Hammett and Jaclyn Ross, for each matching at their top choices for their pre-doctoral internships in Clinical Psychology! Julia will complete her internship at Southwest Behavioral and Health Services in Phoenix, Arizona, and Jaclyn will complete her internship at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois.