January 2025: Ramina Bebezova presented her poster titled "Exploring the link between alexithymia and affect labeling" at the National Collegiate Research Conference (NCRC) held at Harvard on Saturday Jan 25th, 2025
January 2025: Megan Paterson's poster titled "Linguistic Analysis of Symptom-Relevant Negative Autobiographical Memories in Socially Anxious Individuals" was accepted to the annual conference of the Anxiety Depression Association of America (ADAA)
January 2025: Rachel Goodman’s poster abstract titled Exploring Associations Between Affect Labeling and Outcomes of Exposure Therapy for Public Speaking Anxiety got accepted to the annual Society for Affective Science conference
January 2025: Abby Beech’s paper titled “Using Natural Language Processing to Identify Patterns Associated with Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic” got accepted to Journal of Affective Disorders
January 2025: Megan Paterson earned her green badge for running the Harvard MRI independently
January 2025: Sarab Anand’s Cognitive Neuroscience Society Sketchpad Poster titled "Exploring Amygdalar Activity in Response to Symptom-Relevant Memories in Social Anxiety: A Neuroimaging Study" was accepted
Meghan Whalen was awarded a Tufts Graduate Student Research Competition grant for her project "Affect labeling in fear extinction: can use of word labels enhance extinction?"
Sara Velasquez presented "The relationship between dispositional cognitive reappraisal skills and the efficacy of a cognitive restructuring manipulation during fear conditioning" at the ADAA conference
Nur Akpolat presented "Is There a Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Physiological Responses During Fear Conditioning?" at the ADAA conference
Rachel Goodman has been selected as a Summer Scholar for Summer 2024 to continue her work in the TEAM Lab
Meghan Whalen has been granted the Jeffrey Stibel Cognitive Science Fellowship for Summer 2024
Abby Beech has accepted a position as a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Ph.D. program at Boston University and will be starting there Fall 2024
Sara Velazquez has accepted a position as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for OCD and Related Disorders and will be starting there Summer 2024
November 2023: Abigail Beech and Dr. Xandra Kredlow presented in symposium “When is it helpful to revisit the anxious past? The relevance of symptom-related autobiographical memories in anxiety and related disorders” at ABCT 2023
November 2023: Meghan Whalen presented and Abigail Beech chaired symposium “Mechanisms of fear across development and across diagnoses” at ABCT 2023
November 2023: Abigail Beech is awarded a travel award for ABCT 2023
May 2023: Nur Akpolat graduates from Tufts
May 2023: Meghan Whalen receives Deborah Greenwald Summer Fellowship
April 2023: Dr. Xandra Kredlow receives a Psyche Award for Most Valuable Paper on integrating science and practice in 2022 by the Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy
April 2023: Nur Akpolat successfully defends senior honors thesis
March 2023: Abby Beech has poster spotlight at SAS 2023
March 2023: Meghan Whalen presents a poster at SAS conference 2023
January 2023: Meghan Whalen receives Graduate Student Research Competition funding award for the project "Fear Conditioning and Extinction: A Standard Laboratory Paradigm with Affect Labeling"
