News and Noteworthies
Congratulations to Dr. Kaetlyn Cordingley, Ph.D.
| May 2024 |
Congratulations to Dr. Kaetlyn Cordingley, Ph.D. on the successful defense of her dissertation entitled, "The Other Identity Politics: Political turning points and political identity development in college-going emerging adults."
Katie will remain at UM as the Associate Dean of Davidson Honors College.
Dissertation committee: Rachel Severson (chair), Bryan Cochran, Anisa Goforth, Allen Szalda-Petree, and Adrea Lawrence.
Sarah Sweezy proposes her dissertation
| May 2024 |
Congratulations to Sarah Sweezy for successfully proposing her dissertation entitled, "Make-believe and Machine Minds: Examining Pretense, Theory of Minds, and Beliefs when Mentalizing Robots."
Sarah is a doctoral candidate having completed her comprehensive exams in February and is in the dissertation phase of the Experimental Psychology doctoral program.
Dissertation committee: Rachel Severson (chair), Stephanie Demitroff, Allen Szalda-Petree, Rachel Williamson, and Stephen Yoshimura.
Noah Paulson awarded best presentation at UMCUR
| April 2024 |
Congratulations to Noah Paulson who was awarded the best presentation at the UM Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)!
Noah's talk was entitled, "Examining the Relation Between Anthropomorphism and Theory of Mind." His research was mentored by Sarah Sweezy, doctoral candidate in the Experimental Psychology doctoral program.
Noah graduated in May 2024 with his Bachelors degree in Psychology and as an honors scholar from the Davidson Honors College.
Congratulations Sarah Sweezy on your Masters Degree!
| May 2023 |
Sarah Sweezy earned her Masters of Arts in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Developmental Psychology in Spring 2023.
She successfully defended her master's thesis entitled, "Does Behavioral Synchrony Extend to Robots? Children’s Sharing, Mentalizing, and Social Attributions to Synchronous Others"
Thesis committee: Rachel Severson (chair), Allen Szalda-Petree, and Michael Musick (Ñý¼§Ö±²¥) and Adam Baimel (Oxford Brooks University).
Tom Macko proposes MA thesis
| May 2023 |
Tom Macko successfully proposed his thesis research examining whether young children will hold a social robot accountable for harms it causes.
Thesis committee: Rachel Severson (chair), Daniel Denis, and Mike Cavanaugh.
Sarah Sweezy awarded prestigious DISI fellowship!
| July 2022 |
Sarah Sweezy (2nd year Experimental Psychology PhD student) was a Fellow for the 2022 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) in St. Andrews, Scotland. This fully-funded 3-week institute explored “diverse manifestations of mind and cognition, agency and awareness.”
Sarah is the first DISI fellow from Ñý¼§Ö±²¥ and the state of Montana.