Fall 2025

Principal Investigator

Vivian Ta-Johnson, PhD

Lab Manager

Alfonso Carballo

PhD Students

Isabella Swafford, MS

Heather Veldhouse, MA

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Alfonso Carballo

Lucy McGregor

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Lab Alumni

*undergraduate student from Lake Forest College

Vanessa Kountakis, ’25 (Master’s student, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Amelie Motzer ’24* (PhD student, Criminal Justice, Temple University; Winner of Sterling Price Williams Prize in Psychology at Lake Forest College)

Zuzana Smilnakova ’24* (Master’s, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Groningen)

Wiktoria Pedryc ’24* (PhD student, Psychology, Penn State University)

Oscar Ramos-Flores ’24*

Isabelle Nordstrom ’26*

Olivia Herman ’24*

Joysiaeli Kimambo ’25*

Nilufar Imomdodova ’25*

Kath Barton ’23*

Matias Fonolla ’23*

Sara Martinez Guzman ’23*

Ceanna Loberg ’23* (PhD student, Social-Personality Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Lauren Wright ’23*

Carolynn Boatfield ’22* (MS Physician Assistant Practice, Rosalind Franklin University)

Isabel Krupica ’22* (MS Clinical Counseling, Rosalind Franklin University; Winner of David L. Krantz Prize in Psychology at Lake Forest College)

Belle Tseitlin ’22* (PhD student, Clinical Psychology, Rosalind Franklin University; Winner of Sterling Price Williams Prize in Psychology at Lake Forest College)

Xinyu Wang ’22* (MA Social-Organizational Psychology, Columbia University)

Sophie Rasof ’22*

Katie Miller ’22*

Alexandra Pavlikova ’22*

Imani Downer ’22*

Esther DeCero ’21* (EdS, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Loyola University Chicago)

Caroline Griffith ’20* (MSE Clinical Mental Health Counseling, University of Dayton)

Alexia Loggarakis ’20* (MSW, Loyola University of Chicago)

Katie Kauth ’20*

Anne Keller ’20*

Maria Civitello ’20* (University of Illinois College of Law)

Haley Bader ’19* (MA Counseling, University of Denver)