Ayse PayirCongratulations to developmental psychology graduate student Ayse Payir, who will begin a postdoctoral research position with Drs. Kathleen Corriveau (Boston University) and Paul Harris (Harvard University) in Fall, 2016. Ayse will work on a cross-cultural project that is aimed at understanding spirituality and religiosity in young children.

Ayse is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation and she recently had a paper titled “‘It could have been worse’: Developmental change in the use of a counterfactual consoling strategy” accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. The paper is co-authored with Dr. Robert Guttentag, her faculty advisor.