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Current Project Areas

Disability and Neurodiversity Arts

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Invisible Disability Representation through Immersive Technologies

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Invisible Disabilities and Higher Education

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Current Lab Affiliations

Cornell Virtual Embodiment Lab (VEL)

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https://virtualembodimentlab.com/

Past Projects (JHU)

Undergraduate Thesis

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Memory and Fiction

I wrote two fictional choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) stories within experimental parameters to help researchers study episodic memory.

A fantastical open book with grass across its pages. A girl walks across it carrying an umbrella, a dog glances at her from the other page, and birds fly above their heads. One bird lands atop a street lamp between the other two characters. To the left of the book is a mug with a handle, and to the right of the book floats a small hot air balloon in the distance, below it a calligraphy pen on a wooden desk. The backdrop of the photo beyond the desk is a sunny yellow sky, and raindrops coat the edges of the whole frame.

Well-Being and the Built Environment

A review article on well-being and the built environment in collaboration with the team at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108253

A screenshot of the published article on the Building and Environment webpage, including its title, author list and abstract, which can be accessed at the link directly above the photo.

Social Media and Longitudinal Personality Change

A longitudinal analysis of personality change and its relationship with social media use via the The German Family Panel (pairfam) dataset.

A poster with the results from a poster on social media's longitudinal impact on the self-concept, with its key takeaways being that over time, changes in agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and extraversion do not appear to be related to social media use, however frequent social media use could contribute to the negative trend in openness to experience over time.

Translating Real Life to Fiction

A humanities-based presentation at JHU's annual DREAMS Research Day with a focus on introducing principles of translating real life experiences to novel-writing as a hobby to supplement student self-care/health maintenance.

Interviewing Women with Invisible Disabilities

Awarded $1000 grant to perform qualitative interviews with women who have invisible disabilities.

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Social Media Use and Empathy

Investigated the correlational relationship between social media use integration and empathy in college students as a final project for the JHU Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences course in Design & Statistical Analysis for Psychology.

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The “self” in self-reports: The role of explicit online/offline distinctions in measurements of the self-concept
 

JHU Social Psychological Analysis of Relationship Cognition (SPARC) Lab

A screensho of the SPARC Lab home page, which features a photo of two hands making a heart shape and can be accessed at the link below.

https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/sparc-lab/research/

Former Lab Affiliations

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