Consultants

Co-Directors

Juliet Aiken, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and a certificate in statistics and measurement. Her research focuses on diversity, professional development, and methods/statistics. In addition to her work as Co-Director of DaSAL, Juliet is the Deputy Director and Research Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law and owns a consulting company, Statistics in Practice.

Tracy Tomlinson, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Cognitive Psychology. In addition to her work as Co-Director of DaSAL, Tracy is a lecturer at the University of Maryland, where she teaches statistics, research methods, and law and psychology.

Active Consultants

Bonnie Brett is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology.
Jeffrey Chrabaszcz, B.A. is a doctoral student in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science. He is interested in the influence of perceived numerical magnitude on memory and decision making. He is also working with Joe Tidwell to develop software to instantiate Dougherty & Thomas' General Monotone Model in the R statistical language.
Michelle Dugas is a doctoral student in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences program. Her research interests lie at the intersection of motivation and group processes. Currently, she is working on a research program that conceptualizes groups as means to various goals, looking at implications for group identity. Additional projects include investigations into the motivational antecedents of extremism and the role of cultural tightness-looseness in self-control.
Jesse Harrington is a doctoral student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow working in the fields of social and organizational psychology with a focus on cross-cultural research. He is interested in cultural evolution, the influence of ecological factors on cultural norms and individual psychology, and culture and cultural differences at various levels of analysis (for example, at the international, intra-national, and organizational levels).
Ren Li is a doctoral student in the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences program. Her research interests include: 1) how culture can be conceptualized in relation to stigma; 2) the role of cultural identification in the decision-making process; 3) cross-cultural and gender differences in leadership performance.
Dylan Selterman, Ph.D. received his B.A. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, and his Ph.D. in Social/Health Psychology from Stony Brook University. Dylan's research interests include: a) close relationships between parents/children, friends, and romantic partners, b) patterns of dreaming and how they influence subsequent behavior, c) how people experience emotions especially those that are related to relationships (e.g., jealousy, love), d) romantic attachment and sexual behavior, and e) morals, ethics, norms, and standards for interpersonal behavior, especially in close relationships.
Joe Tidwell is a doctoral student in Cognitive and Neural Systems. His primary research interests are judgment and decision making, and mathematical psychology. Joe’s additional interests include computational statistics, and he is old enough that his first computer was a TI-99/4.

DaSAL Alumni

Lauren Boyatzi, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Social Psychology.
Kristen Klein is defending her dissertation in Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences in September, 2013.
Yuliya Malamud, B.A. first encountered statistics her freshmen year in college as a student of Dr. Tomlinson. She has refused to leave statistics (and Tracy) ever since. She's a recent graduate of UMD, and recently worked as a post-bac helping Dr. Tomlinson teach Statistical Methods in Psychology; she even helped create UMD’s first all-online introductory statistics course. If she were a distribution, she'd be binomial.
Kevin O’Grady, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. The founder of DaSAL, Kevin led the lab from 2009 until his retirement in 2013.
Laura Sherman, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology and a certificate in statistics and measurement. Laura is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at McDaniel College, MD.
Anna Sheveland, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Social Psychology. Anna is currently a Senior Scientist at the International Center for Alcohol Policies.
Brandi Stupica, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Developmental Psychology. Brandi is currently an Assistant Professor at Alma College in Alma, Michigan.
Marsha Sargeant, PhD. has a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California.