Researchers
Doctoral Students
 | Arden Cooper, B.A.Master’s thesis topic: Parent-Child Physiological Synchrony during Emotional Family Discussions |
 | Jackson Gray, M.A.Master’s thesis: Cognitive Reappraisal Moderates the Quadratic Association between Heart Rate Variability and Negative Affectivity Dissertation: Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Reactivity to Other’s Emotions as Predictors of Internalizing Symptoms in Middle Childhood |
 | Erin McDonald, B.A.Master’s thesis topic: fMRI Study of the Neural Correlates of Children’s Positive and Negative Empathy |
Research Assistants
 | Warda Abdi, B.A.Mother-child interaction rating, data entry, narrative rating |
 | Ava Barnes, M.A.Mother-child interaction rating, data entry, narrative rating |
 | Kyrsten Buote, B.A.Participant recruitment, data collection, data entry, emotion image rating, behavioral observation coding |
 | Candice Jones, B.A.Emotion image rating, fMRI digital stimuli processing, data entry, behavioral observation coding |
 | Fatema MominECG scoring and processing, facial affect rating |
 | Tanner ThurmanECG scoring and processing, digital stimuli processing |
 | Kristy (Nam Phuong) Tran, B.A.ECG scoring and processing |
 | Constance Wilson (MARC fellow)ECG scoring and processing, facial affect rating |
Doctoral Graduates
 | Alyssa Ames-Sikora, Ph.D. (2019)Current Position: Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD), Columbia University Medical Center Master’s thesis: Depression and Empathy Predict Emotion-Modulated Startle Dissertation: Rigidity of Maternal Emotion Expressions during Mother-Child Interactions in Relation to Mother’s Depression |
 | Meghan Rose Donohue, Ph.D. (2018)Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine Master’s thesis: Learning to Repair Transgressions: Toddlers’ Social Learning of a Reparative Prosocial Act Dissertation: Functions of Guilt and Reparative Behaviors in Middle Childhood |
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Sarah Garcia, Ph.D. (2017)Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Denver Master’s thesis: The Association between Empathy and Prosocial Story Themes and Internalizing Problems in School-Aged Children Dissertation: Negatively Biased Facial Affect Discernment and Socially Inhibited Behavior in Middle Childhood |
 | Meena Khowaja, Ph.D. (2017)Current Position: Psychologist, Division of Pediatric Behavioral Health, Nemours Children’s Health System Dissertation: Associations between Stress and Resourcefulness among Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities |
Faculty Advisor
 | Erin C. Tully, Ph.D.Dr. Tully studies emotion-responsivity factors, such as appraisal of others’ emotions and empathic emotions, as potential risk and protective factors for depression and anxiety in children. She has a particular interest in how parents’ emotions and behaviors contribute to children’s development of empathy, compassion, and prosocial behavior. Dr. Tully and the FEELINGS lab researchers use diverse methodology, including behavioral observations, heart rate variability, and fMRI tasks to study these risk and protective factors from toddlerhood through early adolescence. |
Research Collaborators
| Lindsey Cohen, Ph.D. | |
| Akihiko Masuda, Ph.D. | |
| Erin Tone, Ph.D. |