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Andrea L. Patalano is the RDM Lab director. She is a cognitive scientist and faculty member in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavior. Her interests in high-level cognition include decision making, judgment, and reasoning. See her profile page for her publications. |
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Chenmu (Julia) Xing is a postdoctoral associate. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University Teachers College in 2016 in Cognitive Studies in Education and an M.A. in Developmental Psychology, with a focus on the effects of semantic content and diagram format on probability problem solving. In the RDM Lab, she is studying contextual influences on the interpretation of probabilities in decision making. See her profile page for more details. |
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Katie Williams graduated from Skidmore College in 2017 with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Education Studies. She is interested in how social, linguistic, and cognitive factors interact to support learning. As an undergraduate, she studied the relationship between early pragmatic inference and early language learning capacities. She plans to attend graduate school in educational and developmental psychology. |
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Lily Segal ’17 is majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior. She is fascinated to learn more about how people make decisions, and is conducting research on individual differences in probability judgment. In her spare time, she can be found taking photos, playing the piano or singing, or tutoring! |
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Joanna Paul ’18 is majoring in Psychology and Sociology. She is interested in the ways in which both adults and children make decisions, and is studying how probabilities are interpreted and used during decision making. In her spare time, she can be found hiking, playing the clarinet, or speaking German; she spent a semester last year studying abroad in Berlin! |
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Mika Braun ’19 is double majoring in Psychology and East Asian Studies. She is interested in studying how children perceive probability in decision making. Outside of the lab, her endeavors include club sailing and graphic design. |
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Marcia Mata ’18 is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior. She brings a background in the neuroscience of reward processing and is interested in extending her expertise into cognitive decision research. She is particularly interested in the role uncertainty plays in decision making. In her free time, she can be found on the beach, reading mystery novels and cooking with friends. |
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Karolina Hetesova ’19 is double majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and Science in Society. She is interested in how prior experiences influence our decision making. She is also interested in the differences between indecisiveness and decisiveness. Outside the lab she can be found dancing, cooking, and traveling the world. |
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Julia Kirsch ’19 is a Psychology major. She is interested in how decision-making varies within certain groups and wants to learn more about the strategies used to combat indecisiveness. In addition to psychology, she is drawn to animal behavior, visual arts, and soccer. |
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Melanie Nelson ’19 is double majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior. She is interested in how indecisiveness and uncertainty affect decision-making, and how decision making is related to individual identity. Outside of the lab, she can be found singing, dancing, and exercising with friends. |
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Jenna Shelby-Glick ’19 is double majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures. She is interested in how people’s expectations of future outcomes affect current decision making. In her free time, she enjoys singing with Wesleyan’s Cardinal Sinners, dancing, and baking. |
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John Neil ’19 is majoring in Psychology and minoring in Data Analysis with a certificate in Informatics and Modeling. He is interested in learning more about how people make decisions and exploring the differences between indecisiveness and decisiveness. In his free time, you can find him fishing or on the lacrosse field. |
