LSD Lab Members Receive Top Honors at 2025 UTSA Department of Psychology Symposium

April 25, 2025

Isabella Swafford, a first year PhD student, won 1st Place in the Graduate Competition for her research titled Change My View: Unpacking the Complex Emotional, Cognitive, and Analytic Processes Underlying Persuasion.

Alfonso Carballo, a third year undergraduate student, won 3rd place in the Undergraduate Competition for his research titled Police Use of Analytical Language Predicts Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Police-Civilian Interactions.

Congrats to Isabella and Alfonso!

Three LSD Lab Members Present Research at 2025 UTSA Psychology Research Symposium

April 18, 2025

Undergraduate and graduate students presented posters highlighting 32 research projects taking place in the psychology department. Three LSD Lab members presented 3 different projects:

Alfonso Carballo: Police Use of Analytical Language Predicts Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Police-Civilian Interactions

Vanessa Kountakis: From Interaction to Intimacy: An Inductive Analysis of Romantic Human-Chatbot Relationship Development 

Isabella Swafford: Change My View: Unpacking the Complex Emotional, Cognitive, and Analytic Processes Underlying Persuasion