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CJ Concepcion (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD student working with Dr. Niall Bolger. Before coming to Columbia, CJ attended UC Santa Barbara where she graduated with a BA in Psychology and a certificate in Technology Management in 2019. After graduation, she worked as a project director in Dr. Wendy Berry Mendes’ Emotion, Health, and Psychophysiology Lab. She is interested in the physiological mechanisms that underlie cross-group interactions and how we can mitigate potential socioemotional and health consequences when such interactions are negative (i.e., experiencing discrimination). Outside of the lab, she enjoys trying new places to eat, travelling, and seeing live music.
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Jo (Zhouzhou) He (she/her) is a fifth-year PhD student working with Dr. Kevin Ochsner and Dr. Niall Bolger. She is broadly interested in the intersection of emotion regulation and close relationships. She uses daily diary designs, lab paradigms and fMRI to understand mental representations of others and their emotion-regulatory consequences. At the Couples Lab, she has not only gained a new-found appreciation for dyadic statistical methods, she is also incredibly fond of the people in it. Outside of the lab, she enjoys creative hobbies, reading, nature and good conversation.
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Emma Miller (she/her) is a fourth-year PhD student working with Dr. Tory Higgins and Dr. Niall Bolger. Her research focuses on the emergence of shared reality in conversation and the development of microcultures in close relationships. As a Graduate Fellow at Incite Institute, she explores the intersection of psychology, sociology, and computational social science. Outside of the lab, she enjoys dancing and reading detective stories.
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