Graduate Student Ambassadors
The Graduate Student Ambassadors are here to help you by answering any questions you have about the graduate student experience in the IU Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. From questions about the community, the campus, the department, or the program - the ambassadors are happy to help in whatever way they can.
Please click on any of the names listed below to contact an ambassador via email.
Yvette
HillLaredo, Texas
Ph.D. Student in Clinical Psychology
I received my B.A. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2002. I am currently a first year Clinical Science graduate student in Psychology.
Current Project: Investigating attention and arousal to sexually explicit photos in sexually aggressive and non-aggressive college males.
Research interests: Sexual arousal and attention patterns
to sexual stimuli using eye-tracking in men and women.
General interests: Factors affecting sexual arousal in
women; Measuring arousal using photoplethysmography and other physiological
measures.
Merv
MatthewBronx, NY
Ph.D. Student in Cognitive Psychology
I was born and raised in New York City's South Bronx and lived there until moving out to Bloomington for grad school. My undergraduate degree in psychology is from Lehman College, a small liberal arts school in the Bronx. Bloomington is way different from New York, but I have enough to do here when I need relief from teaching and research.
My research concerns how people make decisions (what information they look for, how they use that information, etc). Right now, I'm working on finding out what conditions bring about a paradoxical about-face in people's decisions. I'm also beginning to gather ideas to work toward my dissertation; that work explores how our various social identities affect both our decisions and the means through which we make them. My goal is to work in a university that gives me both ample resources to pursue my research interests and lots of teaching opportunities.
