Current Graduate Students
Sara Glass
Sara is a graduate student in the Social-Personality PhD program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research is focused on the childfree: people that make the decision to not have children. Specifically, she is interested in the reasons that people choose to be childfree, as well as their personalities, identities, and how they are perceived by others.
Karl Conroy
Karl Conroy is a graduate student in the Social-Personality PhD program at the Univeristy of Illinois. His research interests include attachment, personality change, and social cognition.
Kristina Howell
Kristina is a graduate student in social/personality psychology. She is currently studying parasocial relationships and mortality salience. She is also interested in close relationships, human-nonhuman animal interaction, morality, and self-other knowledge asymmetry.
Margaret Palmiero
Maggie is a graduate student in social/personality psychology. Her current research projects include a series of studies on bias in self-reports of attachment to former romantic partners, and a confirmatory study of the relationship between attachment security, fear of personal death, and death anxiety.
Matt Saxsma
Matt is a graudate student in the social/personaltity area. Matt studies adverse childhood experiences, individual differences, and statistical methods.
Graduates
Keely Dugan
Keely's research interests include attachment, stability and change in working models, personality, and romantic relationship dynamics. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri.
Elizabeth Lozano
Liz's work focuses on attachment in donor conceived people (i.e., adults born through assisted reproductive technology). Another line of research involves relationship maintenance in couples who have utilized donor conception, with special interest devoted to the role of donor curiosity. She is an assistant professor of psychology and sociology at the California Northstate University.
Jaclyn Theisen
Jaci studies romantic relationships from the unhealthy to the healthy range by examining both how violence impacts relationships as well as how individuals maintain healthy romantic relationships. Her focus is on how attachment and communicative patterns influence romantic relationships. Website
Jia Chong
Jia graduated in 2022. She is interested in attachment, interpersonal violence, and personality.
Faaiza Khan
Faaiza graduated in 2019. She is interested in stress, emotion regulation, and interpersonal relationships. She currently works at Meta/Facebook.
Nathan Hudson
Nate graduated from our lab in 2015 and is currently an Associate Professor at SMU. Nate is studies personality change, motivation, and attachment. Website
Marie Heffernan
Marie graduated from our lab in 2015. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.
Amanda Vicary
Mandy graduated from UIUC in 2011. She is currently an associate professor at Illinois Wesleyan University. Website
