Lab News

  • Aug. 2022: Isabel Herrera, Angie Gross, and STARS student Victoria Fawcette presented their research at the Summer Research Conference!

  • Jul. 2022: The lab ran its first in-person participant!

  • Jul. 2022: Madison Pesowski (Post-Doc), accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of the Fraser Valley! Congratulations Madison!

  • Jul. 2022: Meg Pierce joined the SoCal Lab as our Lab Manager!

  • Jun. 2022: STARS students Victoria Fawcette and Sian Lee joined the SoCal lab for the summer!

  • April 2022: Isabel Herrera (RA) was awarded the 2021-2022 Excellence in Developmental Psychology Research Award! Congratulations Isabel!

  • April 2022: Lauren Smith joined the lab as a graduate student!

  • Feb. 2022: Isabel Herrera (RA) had her abstract accepted for poster presentations for the Cognitive Development Society! Congrats Isabel!

  • Nov. 2021: We submitted our first empirical paper, led by Madison Pesowski

  • Nov. 2021: Alexis Smith-Flores gave a colloquium talk at City, University of London

  • Nov. 2021: Isabel Herrera and Deisy Martinez are newly awarded McNair Scholars!

  • Aug. 2021: Welcome to Bill Pepe, our newest grad student!

  • Jun. 2021: Isabel Herrera was awarded the UCSD Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the Summer of 2021!

  • Jun. 2021: STARS students Kelsea Jackson, Joanna Ramirez, and Mi'Anjel Jack joined the SoCal lab for the summer!

  • May 2021: Haley Amin, 4th year research assistant, has been awarded the 2020-21 Excellence in Developmental Psychology Research Award! Congratulations Haley!

  • Mar. 2021: Alexis Smith's SRCD poster won a SECC poster award!

  • Dec. 2020: SoCal Lab members, Alexis and Paloma, had their abstracts accepted for poster presentations at the upcoming Society for Research in Child Development Meeting in April! Congrats Alexis and Paloma!

  • Oct. 2020: The lab ran its first participant!

  • Aug. 2020: Alexis Smith-Flores joined the SoCal Lab as a graduate student!

  • Jul. 2020: Paloma Iñiguez joined the SoCal Lab as our Lab Manager!

  • Jun. 2020: STARS students Natalie Gevoglanian and Jazlyn Armendariz joined SoCal lab for the summer!

  • Jan. 2020: Dr. Lindsey Powell joined the faculty at UCSD!