Lab Members
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
Haley Lam (BA, Baylor University)
FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS
Wake Forest University
Hannah Crawley (MS, 2025)
In Fall 2026, Hannah will enter the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Florida State University (with Dr. Chris Patrick). In 2025-2026, she was a Psychometrist in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital
Undergraduate Institution: Christopher Newport University
Thesis project: The Dark Triad and deception: Uncovering behavioral mechanisms in an honesty-related expectancy-value framework
Carlos Santos (MA, 2024)
Carlos is a research scientist at Georgia Tech
Undergraduate Institution: University of South Florida)
Thesis project: Towards the development of the Truthful Communication Scale
Ryan Wheat (MA, 2023)
Ryan is a doctoral student in the Social Psychology program at University of Pennsylvania (with Dr. Geoff Goodwin).
Undergraduate Institution: Texas A&M University
Thesis: Expectancies moderate the Goal-honesty relationship.
Dr. Logan Martin (MA, 2020)
Logan recently completed his doctorate in the Affective Science program at University of California at Irvine (with Dr. Sarah Pressman)
Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University Northwest
Thesis: A SOCIAL-PERSONALITY PERSPECTIVE ON PEOPLE’S PREFERENCES TO HEAR THE TRUTH
Dr. Andrew Rakhshani (MA, 2019)
Dr. Rakhshani completed his doctoral work in the Social/Personality Psychology program at Michigan State University (with Dr. Rich Lucas and Dr. Brent Donnellan)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida
Thesis: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Reciprocal Effects of Personality and Stress
Sarah Heuckeroth (MA, 2018)
Sarah is an Academic Coordinator at Temple University’s Lenfest Center for Community Workforce Partnerships.
After earning her MA at Wake Forest, Sarah was a doctoral student in the Social/Personality Psychology program at University of California at Davis (with Dr. Chris Hopwood)
Undergraduate Institution: Washington University
Thesis: Exploring personality pathology: A person-centered approach to the DSM-5’s alternative model of personality disorders
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Dr. Lauren Collier-Spruel (MA, 2017)
Dr. Collier-Spruel is Senior UX researcher at KPMG.
Lauren completed her doctoral work in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at Michigan State University (with Dr. Ann Marie Ryan)
Undergraduate Institution: College of William and Mary
Thesis: Towards the development of a belief in moral relativism scale
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David Mendrygal (MA, 2016)
David is a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Wheaton College
Undergraduate Institution: Albion College
Thesis: Patterns of (dis)agreement among the emotional reports of borderline personality disorder individuals and their informants
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Savannah Bradley Altherr (MA, 2016)
Savannah is a Domestic Violence Attorney at Blue Ridge Legal Services in Lexington Virginia.
Savannah earned a JD at the William and Mary Law School and she clerked for the Chesterfield (VA) Circuit Court.
Undergraduate Institution: Elon University
Thesis: Shared Understanding and Perception of Stressors in Borderline Personality Disorder
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Dr. Max Barranti (MA, 2014)
Max is Associate Professor of Psychology at York University .
Max completed his doctoral work in the Social/Personality Psychology program at the University of Toronto at Mississauga (with Dr. Erika Carlson)
Undergraduate Institution: University of California, Riverside
Thesis: Impressions of moral considerations and actions: An agreement approach
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Dr. Xia Allen (MA, 2013)
Xia is currently a psychotherapist at And Still We Rise, LLC
Xia completed her doctoral work in Clinical Psychology at the University of Notre Dame (with Dr. Lee Anna Clark), and she completed a postdoctoral residency in Psychology at the VA Pacific Islands Health Care System.
Undergraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis: Language Use Patterns Associated with Borderline Personality Pathology: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
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Ashley Hawkins Parham (MA, 2012)
Ashley is the Director of the Office of Well-Being here at Wake Forest University.
Undergraduate Institution: College of Charleston
Thesis: Exploring Subgroups of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms Through Symptom Experience
Joelle Fanciullo (MA, 2011)
Joelle is a psychotherapist in New York
After completing her degree at Wake Forest, Joelle completed a Masters in Social Work in Clinical Mental Health at CUNY Hunter College in New York.
Undergraduate Institution: Villanova University
Thesis: Person-Differential Accuracy of Personality Judgment
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Dr. Carly P. Smith (MA, 2010)
Dr. Smith is a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon.
She completed her doctoral work in Clinical Psychology at the The University of Oregon (with Dr. Jennifer Freyd), and she completed a Predoctoral Fellowship in Clinical and Community Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine’s New Haven Hospital Adult DBT Service
Undergraduate Institution: University of Illinois
Thesis: Subclinical Personality Pathology In Interpersonal Situations: Assessing Pathology-Relevant Behavior
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Dr. Erika Carlson (MA, 2008)
Winner of Wake Forest University’s 2007-2008 Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Masters Student Award
Erika is an Associate Professor of Psychology at University of Toronto at Mississauga
Erika completed her PhD in Social/Personality Psychology from Washington University (with Dr. Simine Vazire)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida
Thesis: Assessing meta-accuracy for people form different social contexts: People can detect the impressions they make on others
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Kris Gauthier (MA, 2008)
Kris is Managing Partner at Emicity Research – a market research and consultancy.
Undergraduate Institution: Albion College
Thesis: The Influence of Psychopathy on Self-other Agreement in Perceptions of Warmth and Dominance
Dr. Lahnna Catalino (MA, 2006)
Dr. Catalino is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Scripps College
She completed her PhD in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (with Dr. Barbara Fredrickson)
Undegraduate Institution: McDaniel College
Thesis: Trait-state interactions with the need for relatedness, competence, and autonomy
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Dr. Chris Nave (MA, 2006)
Dr. Nave is the Director of the Behavioral Research Lab at Harvard Business School
He completed his PhD in Social/Personality Psychology at the University of California at Riverside (with Dr. David Funder)
Undergraduate Institution: Elon University
Thesis: The accuracy of personality judgments from a self-presentational perspective
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Appalachian State University
Heather Reimer (MA, General Experimental Psychology, 2004)
University of California at Riverside (Social/Personality PhD program, with Dr. David Funder)
Thesis: Lay prediction of behavior.
Elizabeth Schmidt (MA, Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Human Resources Management, 2004)
Elizabeth is HR Director at Hammersmith Management Consluting
Thesis: Differential item functioning of positively and negatively worded items:
An IRT study of the five core job dimensions of the Job Diagnostic Survey
Fran Bellis (MA, Clinical Psychology, 2004)
Fran is a Licensed Professional Counselor at Families Forward, LLC
Thesis: The self-presentation theory of social anxiety: An interactional and situational examination.
Dr. Brandon Rogers (MA, School Psychology, 2004)
Brandon is a therapist at Siskin Children’s Institute in Chattanooga Tenn.
Brandon completed his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Virginia Tech
Thesis: Parenting styles in relation to factors of self-concept: Self-esteem variables and identity integration.
FORMER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Wake Forest University
Kyle AustinJady Li
Christy Ye
Jackson Cole
Adam Porth
Kate McLeod, Honors thesis: “Well, if I’m being honest…”: Examining perceptions of the use of honesty as a guise
Kate Nichols
Lauren Prince: Honors Thesis: Personality perception and interpersonal relationships in Borderline Personality Disorder
Alex Hummel
Madison Barfield
Kari Heuer
Alex Blackburn
Emilia Brown
Alyssa Cantib
Brad Gray
Jessica Nathan, Honors Thesis: Does Self-Reported Impulsivity have Consequential Social Outcomes?
Sarah Manly , Honors Thesis: The effects of socially desirable responding on the relationship between personality disorders and self-other agreement of personality characteristics
Sarah Giblin
Katie Kuhlken
Stokes Carrigan
Jenna Tucker, Honors Thesis: Interpersonal Values and Self-presentational Strategies in Everyday Life
Sarah Brede
Lindsey Dunn
Katie Farrar
Paul Hussman
Kathryn Pittman, Honors Thesis: Social anxiety: The influence of the stiuation and the imprtance of self-construal
Suzie Farris
Appalachian State University
Matt Howe
After grduating from Appalachian State, Matt attended the College of William and Mary (General Experimental Psychology MA progam)
In Fall, 2006, Matt entered the PhD program in Biological Psychology at the University of Michigan
Patrik Stridh
Appalachian State University (Clinical Psychology MA program)
Becca Swanger
Jeremiah Angel