Fellowships and Grants

Youngjae Cha is a doctoral student in Social Psychology working with Shigehiro Oishi.  Youngjae is interested in how macro-level ecological factors influence human curiosity, exploration, and psychological richness.

Henry Jones is a doctoral student and Neubauer fellow in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience working with Ed Awh. Henry is broadly interested in studying the components of cognitive control using both behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) measures. At the center of this interest are the representations of working memory, along with the mechanisms for their maintenance and modification. 

Radhikha Santhanagopalan, a joint PhD student in Developmental Psychology and in the Booth School of Business, works with Katie Kinzler and Jane Risen. Radhika is interested in children’s social decision-making. Her two main areas of research are on children's social group cognition (e.g., children’s beliefs about nationality, gender, and language attitudes), as well as children’s strategic decision-making (e.g., negotiations, information avoidance, and heuristic judgments).

Katie Vasquez is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology working with Alex Shaw. Currently, Katie broadly researches children's social and moral development. She studies what children believe is moral and is also interested in researching how children behave in socio-moral dilemmas.