Congrats to lab alumnus, Dr. Joshua Jackson, who received the 2022 Dissertation Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Jackson is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University and will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in fall 2023.
Joshua Jackson is named a SAGE Emerging Scholar
Dr. Joshua Jackson was named a SAGE emerging scholar by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. The SAGE Emerging Scholar Award recognizes outstanding achievements by early-career PhD scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field.
The CASL welcomes Dr. Mai Mikkelsen
The CASL welcomes Dr. Mai Mikkelsen, who is visiting from Aarhus University in Denmark. Dr. Mikkelsen is an expert on the role of the body in emotion and clinical disorders and will be collaborating with Dr. Lindquist and members of the CASL.
Senior Honors student MJ Carter presents her thesis at the Honors Poster session
Congrats to senior honors thesis student MJ Carter, who presented her thesis at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Honors Poster session! MJ will be working as a postbacc fellow at the NIH next year!
Congrats to award-winning lab members!
Multiple lab members were honored at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience’s annual awards ceremony. From left to right: Senior MJ Carter who was an honorable mention for the Susan M. McHale Diversity Award, Dr. Kristen Lindquist, First Year Dujana Buheis, who was recognized for her receipt of the Reznick Undergraduate Research Award, and graduate student Mallory Feldman, who received the Psychology and Neuroscience’s Innovation in Equity & Inclusivity Award.
The CASL presents at the 2022 NC Science Expo
The lab shared our work with people from all over NC at the UNC Science Expo!
Jennifer MacCormack to give dissertation award address
Lab alumna, Dr. Jennifer MacCormack, will give an award address at the Society for Affective Science annual convention detailing her dissertation research. Dr. MacCormack received the SAS Best Dissertation Award in 2021. Dr. MacCormack will start as an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia this summer. Check out her lab website here.
MJ Carter successfully defends her honors thesis!
Congrats to MJ Carter, who successfully defended her senior honors thesis entitled “The Impact of Language on Cross-cultural Emotion Perception: An fMRI Study".” MJ will be a post-bacc researcher at NIH next year!
MJ Carter with mentors Kristen Lindquist and Joseph Leshin.
The CASL welcomes Michelle Chernikova to the lab!
We are so pleased to welcome Michelle Chernikova to the lab! Michelle will start as a graduate student in Developmental Psychology in the fall!
CASL Alum, Dr. Joshua Jackson, accepts a position at U Chicago!
Dr. Joshua Jackson will begin as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in July, 2023 after finishing his postdoc at Northwestern University. Dr. Jackson graduated from the lab in 2021. Read more about his work here.
