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Lab Director

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, at The University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Memphis (NSF Graduate Research Fellow); NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Merced (Cognitive and Information Sciences).

Research interests. Communication dynamics and behavioral data science; cognition as embodied and extended into the larger environment; covariation of action and mind in decision tasks and belief expression; language and discourse analysis.

Graduate Students

Jiahan (Nicole) Li PhD Graduate Student

Lab Manager

Research Assistants

Alumni (Master’s, Committee Chair)

• Ayah Abu Zour (2025)

• Yasaman Mohammandpour, Ph.D. program, Arizona State University (2025)

• Gabby Young (2025)

• Alex Pedraza, US Air Force (2024)

• Anuja Thomas, Ph.D. program, Florida State University (2023)

• Myles Alucard, Ph.D. program, Mississippi State University (2023)

• Amie Paige, Ph.D. program, SUNY at Stony Brook (2021)

• Li-Hsin Chen (2020)

• Jacob (Mara) Hamlett (2020)

• Nicole Lobo (co-chair), Ph.D. program, University of Pittsburgh (2020)

• Rex Balanquit (2019)

• Jade Yonehiro, Ph.D. program, University of Colorado, Boulder (2018)

• Chelsea Johnson, Ph.D. program, ASU (Human Systems Engineering) (2017)

• Stacie Lafko, Ph.D. program, ASU (Human Systems Engineering) (2017)

• Xiaochen Sun (2017)

• James Gonzales, Ph.D. program, Miami University (2016)

Faculty Collaborators

Rick Dale · Sidney D’Mello · Riccardo Fusaroli · Scott Crossley · Danielle McNamara · Jessica Salerno · Wagahta Semere · Dean Schillinger · Moreno Coco · Daniel Richardson · Ashley Randall · Stephen Nicholson · Philip McCarthy · Alexandra Paxton · Alexia Galati · Denis O’Hora · Valerie Shute · Mary Reed · Nicole Roberts · Angela Stewart · Chris Street