The Peer Relations Lab includes graduate students, full-time research assistants, undergraduate students, and volunteers who play an instrumental role in helping to conduct research. Many also are involved in the examination of independent hypotheses that serve the basis for honors theses, masters theses, dissertation projects, and other theoretical and empirical contributions.

Faculty:
Mitch Prinstein, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Nicole Heilbron, Ph.D.
AFSP Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipient
Interests: Trauma, Suicide

Lab Manager
Casey Calhoun

Graduate Students:
Whitney Brechwald
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Caroline Browne
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Joe Franklin
National Science Foundation Fellowship Recipient
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John Guerry
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Diana Rancourt
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Undergraduate Students:
Rachel Aaron
Junior
Interests:

Angharad Ames
Senior, Honors Thesis Student
Interests: Relational aggression, friendship jealousy, emotional adjustment

Adrienne Banny
Senior, Honors Thesis Student
Interests:

Megan Brandon
Senior
Interests:

Alex Childress
Senior
Interests:

Hally Gorder
Senior, Honors Thesis Student
Interests: Friendship reciprocity, quantitative psychology

Ellie Hanna
Junior
Interests:

Elie Hessel
Senior, Honors Thesis Student (Primary Mentor: Joe Franklin)
Interests:

Reid Medlin
Senior
Interests: Adolescent peer influence, peer status

Adam Miller
Senior, Honors Thesis Student
Interests: Susceptibility to influence, internalizing/externalizing behaviors, Transition to adulthood

Taylor Murphy
Junior
Interests:

Allegra Sinclair
Senior, Honors Thesis Student
Interests:

Sara Tafeen
Junior
Interests:

Christian Vasquez
Senior
Interests:

Laura Ziemer
Senior, Honors Thesis Student (Primary Mentor: Gaby Livas Stein, Ph.D.)
Interests: Latino adolescents' access to mental health care

Samantha Zwemer
Junior
Interests:

Lab Alumni:
Nicole Collins
Current Position: Clinical Doctoral Student: University of South Florida

Chris Conway
Current Position: Clinical Doctoral Student, University of California at Los Angeles

Matt Illinitch
Honors Student
Current Position:

Maryanne Jaconis
Honors Student
Current Position: Research Assistant, Dr. Eric Stice, University of Oregon

Alyssa Kaye
Honors Student (Graduated with Highest Honors)
Current Position: School Psychology Doctoral Student, University of Texas at Austin

Ryan Landoll
Honors Student (Graduated with Highest Honors)
Current Position: Clinical Doctoral Student, University of Miami

Fran Morfesis
Current Position: Clinical Doctoral Student, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Alex Queen
Honors Student (Graduated with Highest Honors)
Current Position: Clinical Doctoral Student, University of Miami

Robbie Reed
Honors Student
Current Position: Senior Analyst at Thomson Reuters

Ben Shapero
Honors Student (Graduated with Highest Honors)
Current Position: Research Assistant, Dr. Ben Hankin, University of Denver

Sara Simpson
Honors Student (Graduated with Highest Honors)
Current Position:

Amanda von Scoyoc
Current Position: Awardee, Duke Fellowship in Photographic Journalism

Scott Snow
Current Position: Research Assistant, Frank Porter Graham Institute

Other Alumni: Where are you now? Contact Mitch with an update!