Team News
Here, we share and celebrate our team's efforts and accomplishments.
MARCH 2025
Emma Yu accepted an offer to join our team as a PhD student, and she was awarded a Chancellor's Fellowship!
Anushka gave a data blitz on our lab's research at the Shared Reality Virtual Conference!
Brandon, Anushka, Amelia, and Carly submitted our lab's first paper to a journal! This paper is a perspective piece, relevant to phenomena that Anushka, Amelia, and Carly are studying in the lab.
We had end-of-quarter presentations from our first-quarter research assistants (Dana, Destiny, and Vanessa), and from Joy and Amelia, who are considering pursuing honors theses.
FEBRUARY 2025
Anushka submitted a paper to present our research at CogSci 2025, and the lab submitted its first grant!
Our lab had its first presentation accepted (a data blitz) for the Shared Reality Virtual Conference. Anushka will be presenting our research on perspective-taking in social interaction.
Joy, Amelia, and Raissa led lab meeting for the first time, sharing pilot data and discussing next steps.
Anushka and Brandon presented the team's research to the developmental studies group meeting.
Brandon spoke to first-generation students at the ONDAS Center about getting involved in research, highlighting the work of the first-generation college students in our lab, and to the Society for Undergraduate Psychologists about his journey in science and our lab's research.
We got IRB approval to conduct studies in preschools! Thanks to Mia for supporting the literature search, and to Vanessa for helping to translate documents into Spanish.
JANUARY 2025
Our team grew, with four new undergraduate research assistants: Dana Beas Alvarado, Destiny Laina, Jennifer Li, and Vanessa Rico.
DECEMBER 2024
Amelia and Joy won funding from URCA to support their research in the lab! Congratulations!
NOVEMBER 2024
The lab held its first Labapalooza event, where we learned about Halloween costumes, gardening, plays, music across cultures, and more!
All of our undergraduate research assistants gave an end-of-quarter presentation on the research that they'd contributed to this quarter.
Mia and Brandon visited the LEAP Children's Center, where we spoke with preschoolers and educators about science.
Brandon spoke to students in the Promise Scholars Program about navigating UCSB as a first-generation college student.
Anushka and Brandon gave talks to the social psychology area.
OCTOBER 2024
Anushka finished data collection on our lab's first experiment, and she gave a talk on this research to the developmental studies group meeting.
Anushka represented the UCSB Developmental Studies Group at the Santa Barbara Community Baby Shower.
SEPTEMBER 2024
Our team welcomed our first undergraduate research assistants: Amelia Chen, Raissa Cheng, Brooke Johannessen, Mia Solomon, Joy Sun, and Carly Wolf.
Anushka and Brandon spoke with new undergraduate students about research at the First-Gen and Transfer Scholars Welcome Event.
AUGUST 2024
We got IRB approval, and our team tested our first participant.
JULY 2024
The team begins! Our first members include Anushka Laha and Brandon Woo.
The UCSB Office of Admissions interviewed Brandon; see the video here.
CONTACT INFO
Email | folk@psych.ucsb.edu
Bluesky | @brandonmwoo
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