UCSD Empathy & Emotion Lab Team
Christopher Oveis | associate professor | ucsd rady school of management | CV
olivia jurkiewicz | Ph.d. Student, ucsd rady school of Management | website
amanda silver | ph.d. student, ucsd rady school of management
syeda ullah | ph.d. student, ucsd rady school of management
arushi srivastava | incoming ph.d. student, ucsd rady school of management
greg depow | incoming postdoctoral fellow, ucsd rady school of management
vivian lin | ucsd psychology honors student 2024-2025 | Research assistant 2023-2024
Kara serafin | ucsd psychology honors student 2024-2025
Kayla wu | ucsd psychology honors student 2024-2025
Shon John | Research assistant 2022-
Anna Potapenko | Research assistant 2022-
Amani sawyer | Research assistant 2023-
kurren cornfield-saunders | Research assistant 2023-
Sabrina ha | Research assistant 2023-
amelia moraghan | Research assistant 2023-
miranda li | Research assistant 2023-
sara jones | Research assistant 2023-
Danielle Wiedefeld | Research assistant 2023-
Nayeli Carrillo Cervantes | Research assistant 2023-
ke chen | Research assistant 2023-
Pallavi Saksena | Research assistant 2023-
Elizabeth Kudriavtsev | Research assistant 2023-
cindy peng | Research assistant 2023-
Courtney Yu | Research assistant 2023-
Angelina Uy | Research assistant 2023-
Kaylie Siu | Research assistant 2023-
Lab Alumni
Yumeng “Rainy” Gu | associate people scientist, betterup | ph.d., ucsd rady school of management
Matt Lupoli | senior lecturer (asst prof), monash university, melbourne aus | ph.d., ucsd rady school of management
Evan Carr | senior research scientist, amazon | former Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Business School, Columbia University | ph.d., ucsd psychology
Kylie Cassutt | ph.d. student, UC Berkeley social/personality psychology 2023- | ucsd psychology honors student 2022-2023: how trait empathy predicts the regulation of others’ anxiety in real interactions | Research assistant 2020-2022
eva Y. liu | Ph.D. student, Yale University Social/personality psychology 2021- | ucsd psychology honors student 2020-2021: Collectivism and Individualism Shape Extrinsic Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
isaac raymundo | ph.d. student, columbia business school 2021- | lab manager: Uc berkeley haas | ucsd psychology Honors Student 2017-2018: positive empathy and relationship outcomes
milka waniak | incoming LAB MANAGER FOR DR. erik nook’S Logic of emotion lab, princeton PSYCHOLOGY 2024- | ucsd psychology honors student 2022-2023: Viewing Rejection as a Positive Experience Helps People Perform Better and Motivates them to Persist | Research assistant 2022-2024
athena tiet | incoming clinical psych ph.d. student, alliant intl University california school of professional psychology 2024- | ucsd psychology honors student 2023-2024: When Holding Back Hurts: The Negative Impact of Suppression on Compassion | Research assistant 2023
Emily HSu | Ph.d. student, washington university in St. Louis olin business school 2020- | ucsd psychology thesis student 2019-2020: Suppressing Emotions During Collaborative Work Disrupts Physiological Linkage Between Teammates
Yanran “snow” lin | ph.d. student, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa psychology 2023- | ucsd psychology honors student 2019-2020: Is empathic accuracy facilitated by expressivity?
Desiree aleibar | ph.d. student, University of Michigan social psychology 2019- | ucsd psychology honors student, 2018-2019: relations of three facets of empathy in responses to suffering | mcnair scholar, ucsd
tayler bergstrom | Ph.d. student, ucla anderson school of management 2020- | lab manager: ucla anderson behavioral lab 2018-2020 | ucsd psychology Honors Student 2017-2018: social functions of laughter in stressful situations
Joseph Ocampo | ph.d. student, uc berkeley social/personality psychology 2017- | lab coordinator/research assistant 2012-2017 | mcnair scholar, ucsd
Mengdi Huang | ph.d. student, northwestern university social psychology 2021- | M.A., Social Sciences (Psychology mapss), university of chicago | Research assistant 2017-2019
christian beltran | ph.d. student, University of california, Irvine social/personality psychology 2023- | Research assistant 2022
Fangzheng Zhao | ph.d. student, uc Santa Barbara department of psychological and brain sciences 2020- | Research Assistant 2018-2020
nayeli rincon | ph.d. student, critical social/personality psychology, cuny 2022- | Research assistant 2019-2020
marie sckocheva | ph.d. student, neuroscience and applied physiology 2020-, columbia university | former Research AssistanT
claudia son | psy.d. student, biola university 2019- | former research assistant
Melody Chen | psy.d. student, pgsp-stanford | M.S. of Education in Counseling and Mental Health Services, university of pennsylvania 2023 | ucsd psychology Honors Student 2016-2017: How gratitude expressions influence social stress responses in socially anxious individuals
angie gross | emotion and emotion regulation project coordinator for drs. renee thompson and tammy english, washington university in st. louis psychology | Research assistant 2022-2023
Alicia Assang | ma student in psychology, san diego state university 2022-2024 | ucsd psychology honors student 2021-2022: Stress Reappraisal and Positive Reappraisal by Socially Anxious Individuals during Performance Situations | Research assistant 2021
peyton graves | research coordinator, the honesty project, wake forest university 2022- | ucsd psychology honors student 2021-2022: Emotions and creativity
blair mcgarrigle | LAB MANAGER: UCLA ANDERSON BEHAVIORAL LAB 2022-2024 | ucsd psychology thesis student 2020-2021: Changing Others' Emotions: Which Strategies Work and why?
Navya Yarrabothula | lab manager for Dr. casey brown’s Clinical Aging and Relational Emotion Science Laboratory, Georgetown psychology 2023-2024 | ucsd psychology honors student 2022-2023: “She should be ashamed”: social perceptions of Women and men when they express shame following a mistake | Research assistant 2021-2022
Yingzi “Jay” Jin | MA in computational social science (psychology), University of Chicago 2022-2024 | Research assistant 2020-2022
yan “sukie” sun | Master’s of human development and psychology, Harvard University 2022 | Research assistant 2019-2020
jiabei jin | ma, columbia university social-organizational psychology 2022 | Research assistant 2018-2020
Selen Iskenderoglu | ms in applied psychology, university of Southern California 2021 | ucsd psychology honors student 2019-2020: Helping Others Succeed: The Influence of Two Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies on Emotion and Performance During a Stressful Task
GaoJie (Kathy) Sun | M.a. in Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 2020 | Research assistant 2018-2020
annie li | M.A., SOCIAL SCIENCES (PSYCHOLOGY MAPSS), UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | Research assistant 2019-2020
siyu yan | M.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience, Columbia University 2022 | Research assistant 2018-2020
chang he | MA, business analytics, imperial college business school | Research assistant 2019-2020
kayleigh roche | master’s in applied psychology, university of Southern California 2021 | Research assistant 2019-2020
Fisayo Osilaja | ucsd psychology honors student 2019-2020: Response Coherence and Positive Empathy
Karina Mohajerani | ucsd psychology Honors Student 2015-2016: Emotion Regulation Strategies and Performance Under Stress
Hee Yeon Hwang | user experience designer | former lab manager, washington university in st. louis Emotion and mental health lab | former Research Assistant
Linnea Holm | ms student in human factors, csu long beach | Research assistant 2021
tanya khazaie | master’s in applied psychology, university of Southern California 2020 | Research assistant 2019
Giovanna Sun | MASTER'S STUDENT IN ORGANISATIONAL AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, | former Research Assistant
Joyce hwang | MASTER's IN I/O PSYCH, san diego state UNIVERSITY 2017 | former Research AssistanT
ningyu Megan Chan | ph.d. student, nanyang technological university school of biological sciences | former Research Assistant
Jasmine Schnall | MASTER's IN I/O PSYCH, san francisco state UNIVERSITY 2017 | former Research Assistant
Vanessa Rodarte | mcnair scholar, ucsd 2019
Julie jiayu Fu | MASTER'S IN human resource management, ohio state university fisher college of business | FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANt
Salina Yun | Masters of Social Work Student, University of Edinburgh | FORMER RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Eishlee jasa | ms, nursing, University of San Francisco | research assistant 2018-2019
Fariha Faeezah | ms, human resources management, University of southern california | Research assistant 2019
Giovanni "Gio" Castillo | Staff Research Associate, UC San Diego Consortium for Translational Research in Neuropsychopharmacology | Master’s in behavioral neuroscience, University of Missouri, St.Louis | Research Assistant
Marika (Mia) Del-Motte | Research assistant, baylor college of medicine | ms in neuropsychology, maastricht university 2021 | Research assistant
Renbo Zheng | ma, developmental psychology, cornell university, 2019 | former Research Assistant
Sierra Okamura | Research assistant 2022-2023
Nicole Pineda | Research assistant 2023-2023
Sara Davalou | Research assistant 2022-2023
christine kwon | Research assistant 2022-2023
ruoyo “Renee” liu | Research assistant 2022-2023
Liuyang Wang | Research assistant 2022-2023
huiran shan | Research assistant 2023
Yukang Han | Research assistant 2023
allison wong | Research assistant 2023
Mikayla Klinkenborg | Research assistant 2023
Sophie Huynh | Research assistant 2023 .
Samantha Fernando | Research assistant 2023
Maxwell Chan | Research assistant 2023
Jacqueline Hermanto | Research assistant 2023
Judy Kim | Research assistant 2023
Kathleen Nguyen | Research assistant 2022-2023
Anthony Avina | Research assistant 2022-2023
Makayla Thornburg | Research assistant 2022-2023
Madison Nguyen | Research assistant 2022-2023
Crystal Shi | Research assistant 2022-2023
Maya Beeri-Feldman | Research assistant 2022-2023
Ainsley Mach | Research assistant 2022-2023
Aidin Gharavi | Research assistant 2022-2023
Changge (penny) Shi | Research assistant 2022-2023
diana freeman | Research assistant 2022-2023
Yuchen Zhang | Research assistant 2022-2023
Xandria Romei | Research assistant 2022-2023
gabriela medina ortiz | Research assistant 2020-2022
emily (Yingyi) Zhou | Research assistant 2020-2022
Rachel Eli | Research assistant 2021-2022
kristy kim | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
aditya datta | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
koko wing | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
genevieve chao | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
Aakash Bhegade | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
kevin voong | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
jasmine qiang | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
john salas | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
noora el sherif | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
kevin wong | Research assistant fall 2021-2022
joyce wu | former Research assistant
belinda yan | former Research assistanT
jasmine okereke | Research assistant 2020-2021
Karlo Medrano | Research assistant 2019-2021
jia-hui ma | Research assistant 2019-2021
junqian liu | Research assistant 2019-2021
Amberley stein | Research assistant 2020-2021
abigail warner | Research assistant 2020-2021
Gabriella Vinokur | Research assistant 2020-2021
Harshini Ramaswamy | Research assistant 2020-2021
Helen Chang | Research assistant 2020-2021
elaine fang | Research assistant 2019-2020
Shakia Mobley | Research assistant 2018-2020
natalie lin | Research assistant 2019-2020
Angenicia green | Research assistant 2019-2020
vanshika agrawal | Research assistant 2019-2020
kareem najjar | Research assistant 2019-2020
nabressa lilly | Research assistant 2019-2020
seres (jiarui) wang | Research assistant 2019-2020
lisa doan | Research assistant 2019-2020
jiexiang “Rex” wang | Research assistant 2019-2020
salvador villafana | Research assistant 2019-2020
alejandra dominguez lopez | Research assistant 2019-2020
Joshua Hussong| Research assistant 2019-2020
Joshua Carpenter| Research assistant 2019-2020
Nivedita Xavier | Research assistant 2019
Heidi Emmenegger | Research Assistant 2019
alexis durham | Research assistant
Jennifer Cervantes-Sanchez | Research assistant
Andrea Paipilla | Research assistant
Roberto Mercado | Research assistant 2019
Katie Mattea | Research Assistant
Spiro Mansour | Research assistant 2019
Qiaer (Doris) Zhang | Research assistant
Yuetian Yuan | Research assistant
kim Apolonio | Research Assistant
Tyler Chau | Research assistant
Daisy dai | research assistant
Abhishek Patel | Research Assistant
Andi AGESON | research assistant
David hou | Research assistant
Sandra Reynoso | Research Assistant
Nicolette chilian | Research assistant
Diane Shivaie | Research Assistant
tracey nguyen | Research Assistant
James Clough | Research Assistant
Varvara "V" Yefymenko | Research Assistant
Bailey Na Ranong | Research Assistant
david phan | Research Assistant
Sarah M Chadwick | Research Assistant
Nora Lu | Research Assistant
Bianca Xu | Research Assistant
Alexandra Bugayong | Research Assistant
Melissa Smithey | Research Assistant
Hilary LeBeuf | Research Assistant
Carl Qi | Research Assistant
Emily to | Research Assistant
Connie Liang | Research Assistant
Anqi Guo | Research Assistant
Sharon Lui | Research Assistant
Amy Pan | Research Assistant
Anthony Yip | Research Assistant
Joyce Sun | Research Assistant
katie jue | Research Assistant
glenn-Marie Endris | Research Assistant
Cian O'Carroll | Research Assistant
Cristal Martinez | Research Assistant
Gaithrri Shanmuganathan | Research Assistant
Matthew Tan | Research Assistant
michelle ly | Research Assistant
Selena Ramos | Research Assistant
Vivian Zagarese | Research Assistant