Students

Mandy Alden, sachurc@emory.edu, Advisor: Patricia Brennan

Rachel Ammirati, rammira@emory.edu, Advisor: Stephen Nowicki
Research Interests: Family and peer relationships; the interplay between nonverbal communication and depression; the effects of parental psychopathology on children.

Jennifer Andrews-McClymont, jgandre@learnlink.emory.edu, Advisor: Marshall Duke

Joy Beckwith, jdbeckw@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory
Research Interests: The effects of maternal psychophysiology and psychosocial stress on fetal and infant neurobehavioral development and functioning; the development of interventions for pregnant mothers to ameliorate these effects.

John Berg, jpberg@emory.edu, Advisor: Jack McDowell

Pavel Blagov, pblagov@emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Personality diagnosis and treatment; emotional constraints on decision making; self-defining memories and personality; patterns of emotion and meaning in the psychotherapy process.

Sarah Brand, sbrand@emory.edu, Advisor: Patricia Brennan
Research Interests: The effects of maternal psychopathology (especially post-partum depression) on infants and young children.

Marcia Caron, mlcaron@emory.edu, Advisor: Jack McDowell
Research Interests: Mathematical descriptions of naturally occurring human behavior. Unwanted sexual encounters on college campuses.

Erin Collier, ecolli3@emory.edu, Advisor: Scott Lilienfeld
Research Interests: Cross-cultural investigations of psychopathic personality traits.

Michelle Esterberg, michelleesterberg@yahoo.com, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Mark Gapen, mgapen@emory.edu, Advisor: Marshall Duke

Sophia Green, segree5@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory

Kelly Harrington, kmharri@emory.edu, Advisor: Irwin Waldman
Research Interests: Causes (genetic and environmental), classification, and development of childhood externalizing and internalizing disorders and their overlap.

Erin Jones, erin.jones@emory.edu, Advisor: Sherryl Goodman

Meredith Jones, mkjone3@emory.edu, Advisor: Scott Lilienfeld
Research Interests: Genetics of childhood ADHD and comorbid externalizing orders, and further understanding genetic risk predictors of these disorders.

Brighid Kleinman, bkleinm@learnlink.emory.edu, Advisor: Marshall Duke
Research Interests: Personality and motivation in close relationships and families, particularly positive processes such as approach motivation, intimacy, and resilience.

Saule Kulubekova, skulube@emory.edu, Advisor: Jack McDowell
Research Interests: Mathematical and causal accounts of behavior; computational modeling of operant behavior.

Kristin Landfield, klandfi@emory.edu, Advisor: Scott Lilienfeld
Research Interests: Etiology, assessment, and classification of personality disorders
(especially psychopathy); impulsivity, disinhibition, and motivation in psychopathic personality; individual differences as moderators and mediators in the development and maintenance of psychopathology; problems in scientific classification, and diagnosis;
psychophysiological and neurobiological correlates of personality disorders.

Vijay Mittal, vmittal@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker
Research Interests: Social-environmental, neuro-endocrinal, and developmental factors in children and adolescents at-risk for psychopathology. Non-verbal behavior, pharmacological treatments, and schizophrenia.

Anjana Muralidharan, amurali@emory.edu, Advisor: Edward Craighead
Research Interests: Bipolar disorder-biological and neurodevelopmental markers and development of psychosocial therapies.

Dorthie Ortigo, dortigo@emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Research Interests: Treatment of trauma and other issues with low SES populations; etiology of maladaptive behaviors, focusing on adolescence; relationship between personality and childhood resiliency.

Kile Ortigo, kortigo@emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Research Interests: Conceptualization and treatment of personality disorders, particularly dimensional models; optimal integration of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and psychodynamic treatments; life-long personality development and growth.

Rebecca Pargas, rpargas@emory.edu, Advisor: Marshall Duke

Joanne Peart, jpeart@emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Research Interests: The interplay between personality and psychopathology, the classification of psychopathology, women and mental health, eating disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders.

Amy Ransom, amy.ransom@emory.edu, Advisor: Stephen Nowicki
Research Interests: The study of childhood relationships; especially nonverbal communication between children, their peers, and their caregivers and how that relates to social adjustment and the development of social skills.

Michael Rothman, mrothma@emory.edu, Advisor: Stephen Nowicki
Research Interests: The measurement of nonverbal communication skills and its role in relationship formation; close relationships; marital therapy process and treatment outcome.

Matthew Rouse, mrouse@emory.edu, Advisor: Sherryl Goodman
Research Interests: Maladaptive processes in the parent-child relationship as a predictor for developmental psychopathology.

Eric Russ, eruss@learnlink.emory.edu, Advisor: Drew Westen
Research Interests: Classification and treatment issues, particularly narcissistic personality disorder. Working on a project looking at the genetic and environmental correlates of trauma.

Stacy Ryan, srryan@learnlink.emory.edu, Advisor: Patricia Brennan

Daniel Shapiro, dishapi@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker
Research Interests: Cognition and behavior in schizophrenia and other psychopathology. Developmental course and precursors of mental illness.

Diana Simeonova, dsimeon@emory.edu, Advisors: Elaine Walker and Stephan Hamann

Lisa Smith, lmsmit8@emory.edu, Advisor: Linda Craighead
Research Interests: Prevention and treatment of eating disorders.

Patrick Sylvers, psylver@emory.edu, Advisors: Scott Lilienfeld and Patricia Brennan
Research Interests: The etiology of psychopathy and personality disorders, specifically the neuropsychological and psychophysiological underpinnings of the disorders.

Kevin Tessner, ktessne@emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Hanan Trotman, htrotma@learnlink.emory.edu, Advisor: Elaine Walker

Huaiyu Zhang, hzhan39@emory.edu, Advisor: Eugene Emory
Research Interests: Culture and mental health, alternative treatment for maternal depression.