Meet The Team
Dr. Elise Fenn
The focus of my research is at the intersection of cognitive psychology and the law, and includes other applied interests such as health and educational reform. Students working in my lab will have the opportunity to gain and apply research skills by participating in various aspects of the research process. Students may develop research materials, conduct literature reviews, analyze data using SPSS, R, Excel, conduct qualitative analyses of linguistic and non-verbal behaviors, assist in writing research papers and conference presentations, and attend lab meetings. Students will be encouraged to develop skills in all areas related to conducting empirical research.
Rachel Gozarkhah
Rachel is an undergraduate student at California State University, Northridge and projected to graduate in May of 2016. She is interested in all areas of psychology and primarily in personality, human motivation, and memory. Her goals are to graduate and attend a graduate school to obtain a Master’s degree in psychology and ultimately teach. She is currently working on an experiment that examines cognitive load and deception.
Rachel is an undergraduate student at California State University, Northridge and projected to graduate in May of 2016. She is interested in all areas of psychology and primarily in personality, human motivation, and memory. Her goals are to graduate and attend a graduate school to obtain a Master’s degree in psychology and ultimately teach. She is currently working on an experiment that examines cognitive load and deception.
Natalie Daving
Natalie Daving is currently a junior psychology undergraduate in Elise Fenns lab. She is cure let's working on a project which looks at cognition, Cognitive load, and deception. She hopes to obtain her PhD in clinical psychology.
Shiba Bechara
Nicholas Ramsay
Molly Drader
Alison Hochman
Michael Rodriguez
I am passionate about applying science (research methods and data analysis) to solve real world problems, especially using eye-tracking methods. I am specifically interested in visual perception and cognitive processing when people read, speak, or make decisions. My research uses the SR research 1000 Plus eye-tracking system to look at various oculomotor measures (saccades, fixations, pupillometry, blink rate, etc.). The study I am currently working on looks at pupil dilation, cognitive load, and galvanic skin response in liars and truth-tellers. The aim of our study is to see if there are significant differences in physiological measurements for liars vs. truth-tellers.
Molly Drader is a Junior at California State University, Northridge pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. Molly joined this research lab to broaden her knowledge of psychology; she hopes to be a special education teacher or a behavior analyst in the future. She loves learning about people and traveling to new places.