School of Humanities and Sciences
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Danielle Boles
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2017
BioDanielle received her BA in Psychology and Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on improving mindsets about diet and health, enhancing the experience of healthy eating, and measuring the power of such mindsets and experiences to influence behavior and physiology.
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Eric Reynolds Brubaker
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, admitted Spring 2017
Master of Arts Student in Education, admitted Summer 2020
Ph.D. Minor, PsychologyBioEric is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering (Design). He partners with global product development organizations in North America and Africa to improve how engineers work across cultural, organizational, and functional boundaries. This research builds upon theories of design, organization studies, and the learning sciences.
Before Stanford, Eric worked as a R&D engineer at Battelle, co-developed a clean water organization in India, and led a social entrepreneurship program at MIT D-Lab. He is a designer, maker, and teacher at heart and has taught design, manufacturing, and sustainability courses, organized co-design summits in Ghana, Zambia, and Brazil, and worked with elementary school kids. He is committed to developing his own critical consciousness and celebrating identity and difference. -
Kate Petrova
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2021
BioKate Petrova is a first-year PhD student at the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. Her research encompasses two broad domains: basic questions about the nature of emotion as well as applied research at the intersection of affective science and social psychology. Her current interests include how different ways of paying attention to and labeling affective experiences shape emotion regulation. She is also curious about how people regulate their own and others’ emotions in naturalistic social interactions. Kate’s other interests include empathic processes in virtual communication, lay theories of emotion, and the development of emotion regulation across the lifespan. Kate earned her A.B. in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College and spent several years working on the Harvard Study of Adult Development before joining SPL.
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Jinxiao Zhang
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioJinxiao is a graduate student in the Psychology Department. His research interest generally lies in how the "emotion system" and the "cognition system" interplay with each other. Specifically, he is interested in how cognitive control can modulate emotion processes as well as how emotion can affect cognitive processes. He is also interested in how the emotion-cognition interaction relates to psychological health. He uses neuroimaging, physiological, eye-tracking, and behavioral methods to investigate these research questions. In his recent work, he studies how sleep influences emotion regulation and other emotional processes. He is a big fan of interdisciplinary research (psychological, biochemical, and computational) and open science practice.
