Assistant Professor in Psychology
I received a BA in Psychology with minors in Jewish Studies and Hebrew from Temple University in 2014. In 2016, I completed an MA in Psychology at Wake Forest University, where I worked with Dr. Catherine Seta and investigated regret as a self-regulatory system. In 2021, I completed my doctoral work at New York University working with Dr. Peter Gollwitzer and Dr. Gabriele Oettingen in the the Motivation Lab, as well as with Dr. Pat Shrout in the Couples Lab. From 2021 to 2023, I served as a College Fellow at Harvard University, where I also worked with Dr. Jill Hooley. I am currently an assistant professor in psychology in the Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. When not developing and teaching courses. I am also a freelance photographer and draw on experiences behind the lens to inform my research.
Research and Teaching Interests
My research lies at the intersection of self-regulation and close relationships and seeks to better understand a.) the process by which individuals pursue and form romantic relationships, and b.) how perturbations in these processes may undergird problematic relationship behaviors. Recent work includes modeling the process of disengagement from romantic courtship, developing a new measure of presumptuousness in the romantic context, and examining how long-distance couples navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. I am also broadly interested in pedagogical best practices, and advanced quantitative methods including issues in measurement, longitudinal data, survival analysis, case-control matching, and innovative ways to use data for justice-oriented research. I teach courses in psychology spanning personality, social, forensic, research methods, statistics, motivation, and close relationships.
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