Timothy James Nokes-Malach
Professor, Department of Psychology and Learning Sciences and Policy
Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center
Research Interests: Tim’s research examines human learning, problem solving, and motivation with an aim to understand, predict, and promote knowledge transfer. An overarching goal is to develop instructional theories to promote learning and transfer in mathematics and science. Other interests include meditation and wilderness.
Tessa Benson-Greenwald
Research Interests: Tessa’s research explores how contexts and beliefs can be adapted to promote equity and inclusion in science. Specifically, she employs social structural psychological theories to investigate how the self, a person’s understanding of who they are and what they value, cyclically shapes (and is shaped by) the social structure, the system which organizes people’s constellation of social relationships and group membership, affecting psychological experiences. Tessa examines both the personal and contextual factors that can cause otherwise talented students to opt out of or leave science career pathways. Her work thus seeks to facilitate the recruitment and retention of people from historically excluded groups (i.e., students of color, white women) in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational and career contexts.
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Sara Jaramillo
Research Interests: Sara is a fourth-year student in the Cognitive Psychology program. She is interested in how people reason, interpret, and make decisions about statistical information. Specifically, she is interested in how people draw inferences from graphs and how we can better graphically represent scientific information.
Quentin King-Shepard
Research Interests: Quentin is a fifth-year graduate student whose research examines learning and novel problem-solving. More specifically, he seeks to investigate prequestions in a lecture-based environment and metacognitive learning in education while designing interventions that bolster metacognitive skill use. He is also interested in decision-making when preparing for a cognitively demanding task in a perceived high-risk situation.
Nabila Jamal Orozco
Research Interests: Nabila is a graduate student in the Cogntive Psychology program. She is interested in examining early and middle childhood socioemotional impacts on cognitive processing. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the role emotions serve in the classroom and the ways in which they impact children’s learning.
Avital Pelakh
Research Interests: Avital is a fourth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology Program. Broadly, her interests include problem solving, reasoning, and misconceptions in science, as well as metacognition, mindfulness, learning from errors, student motivation and engagement, and science communication. She is currently working on a project looking at the relationship between psychological threat and problem solving in introductory physics, and the potential impacts of mindfulness training on that relationship, as well as a project looking at the relationship between scientific reasoning and learning among undergraduate biology students.
Dalia Maeroff
Research Interests: Dalia Maeroff graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Philosophy in psychology with a learning sciences distinction, a certificate in Latin American Studies, and minors in linguistics, nonfiction writing, and English literature. She is interested in conservation psychology, STEM education, and the learning sciences, more specifically, exploring learning and motivation as it relates to people's commitment to conservation efforts. In her free time, she loves to travel, hike, look at birds, write, and read.
Tyree Langley
Research Interests: Tyree Langley graduated from the University of Buffalo with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in public health. His research interests center on the development of educational tools and resources to support learners in STEM education, with a special focus on the role of technology in these contexts. His most recent research focuses on the design of a social robot to support collaborative learning in middle school and college mathematics.
Jovan Corrales
Jovan is a research assistant in his fourth year of undergraduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently working on coding responses to open-ended questions and an undergraduate thesis. His future plans include continuing working as a research assistant and applying to PhD programs this upcoming fall.
Teresa Davison
Teresa is a fourth-year data science and linguistics major, minoring in german. They are interested in second-language acquisition, specifically in learning technologies and advancements in human-computer interaction. They are currently working on a project that explores the effects of collaboration on learning outcomes. They plan to pursue a graduate degree in Computational Linguistics after completing their undergraduate studies
Aishwarya Karanam
Aishwarya is interested in understanding the variables that contribute to recovery among both adolescents and adults with depression, anxiety, and PTSD. In this realm, she is particularly interested in studying the impact of mindfulness practices on fear responses and perceptions of vulnerability among adolescents and adults with past traumatic experiences. Aishwarya’s other interests include studying learning processes, stress management among students in STEM and proactive mindset in academic contexts.
Irvin Li
Irvin is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently involved in supporting recruitment efforts for the Mobile Mindfulness project. After graduation, Irvin plans to attend graduate school for health psychology or a related area. When he is not in the lab or studying, Irvin enjoys cooking, traveling and hanging out with friends.
Zihui Zhang
Zihui is a senior with a major in psychology and a minor in data science. She is currently working on the Mobile Mindfulness Training and Physics Learning Project. After completing her undergraduate studies, Zihui plans to attend graduate school for clinical psychology and eventually work within the field.
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