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Undergraduates at SEPA 2026

Undergraduates Present Their Research at the Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Conference

Several of our undergraduate students recently traveled to New Orleans, LA, to attend the Southeastern Psychological Association annual conference. All the undergraduate students presented during the CEPO (Committee for Equality and Professional Opportunity) sessions, a set of presentation sessions meant specifically to spotlight undergraduate research and sponsored by Psi Chi,… Continue reading…

Kaitlin Quick and Julia Mendez Smith

Quick Publishes Perspective on Racial-Ethnic Socialization in Childhood

Fifth year clinical graduate student Kaitlin Quick (Faculty mentor: Dr. Julia Mendez Smith) has a new publication in Frontiers in Psychology. Titled “Parental/caregiver racial-ethnic socialization during early childhood: A meta-ethnographic review,” this work suggests that racial-ethnic socialization strongly contributes to general parenting practices and family dynamics. This work extends the… Continue reading…

Taylor Wood standing with her prelim committee.

Wood Defends Comprehensive Examination

Developmental psychology graduate student Taylor Wood successfully defended her doctoral comprehensive examination today. Wood successfully discussed and defended her paper titled “Children’s Social Judgments about Wealth: A Developmental Perspective.” Faculty committee members included chair Dr. Janet Boseovski, who co-directs the DUCK Lab, and Drs. Julie Mendez-Smith, Stuart Marcovitch, and Danielle… Continue reading…

Caitlin Stone

Meet the Graduate Students: Caitlin Stone

They scurry around the department to classes, labs, and seminars. We see them present and read their reaction papers. Let’s take some time to learn about the people behind the PowerPoints. Graduate students are essential to the research enterprise and valued members of any department with a graduate program. The… Continue reading…

Meet the Graduate Students: Sloane Freeman

They scurry around the department to classes, labs, and seminars. We see them present and read their reaction papers. Let’s take some time to learn about the people behind the PowerPoints. Graduate students are essential to the research enterprise and valued members of any department with a graduate program. The… Continue reading…

Taylor Wood and Cameron Pugach

Psychology Graduate Students Awards Sweep!

This year, the department is proud to announce that two of our graduate students have won recognition awards from the UNCG Graduate School. Taylor Wood, a developmental student in our experimental program, has earned the Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis titled, “Nice or Rich? An Examination of Children’s Preferences… Continue reading…

2025 Graduate Research Colloquium: GREAT SUCCESS!

Congratulations to our second year graduate student cohort on an amazing 2025 Graduate Research Colloquium! This year’s GRC featured fascinating research. But it also celebrated the hard work and progress from our talented and determined clinical and experimental area graduate students. We look forward to hearing more about your research… Continue reading…