Each month we publish opinion pieces and interviews with psychology graduate students, across all areas of psychology: cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, social-personality, cognition, and development.
Edited by Maedbh King
Eliza Kosoy grew up in New York and attended Emmanuel College where she studied Mathematics. She then spent three years at MIT in the lab of Josh Tenenbaum. She is starting her second year in the psychology graduate program at UC Berkeley where she studies developmental psychology. She is supervised by Prof. Alison Gopnik.
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Alan Cowen grew up in Chicago and attended Yale University where he double majored in Cognitive Science
and Applied Math. He graduated from the psychology graduate program at UC Berkeley where he studied
cognitive neuroscience and social-personality. He was supervised by Prof. Dacher Keltner.
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Mandy Chen grew up in Zhongshan in southern China and attended Peking University in Beijing where she studied Psychology.
She is starting her fourth year in the psychology graduate program at UC Berkeley where she studies cognitive neuroscience. She
is supervised by Prof. David Whitney.
Interview by Juliana Chase
Elena Leib believes that science is for everyone. As a 2nd year Psychology PhD student working with Professor Silvia Bunge, she is on a mission to demonstrate that research can be both accessible and meaningful no matter a person’s background.
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Darius Parvin, PhD is a recent graduate of the psychology program at UC Berkeley. He studied in the Cognition and Action laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Richard Ivry.