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Graduate Students (Primary) Email: [email protected]
Joshua Perlin is a fifth-year graduate student in Dr. Erin Westgate’s Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab at the University of Florida. He attended Emory University for his undergraduate degree, earning a B.A. in psychology with a minor in ethics. At Emory, he worked in Dr. Robyn Fivush’s Family Narratives Lab, where he cultivated an interest in approaching the self as an ongoing story through time. After graduating, he was a lab manager for the Identity and Diversity Lab at Duke University under the direction of Dr. Sarah Gaither. His research interests concern how linking the self to the past and future through storytelling—both within one’s own lifetime and across generations—can promote the good life. Additionally, he is interested in how various religious and secular worldviews shape the construction of a “good life story”. His research is currently funded by an NSF GRFP.
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S. Elisha LePine is a fourth year PhD student at the University of Florida under the mentorship of Dr. Erin Westgate. Areas of research interest include social emotions, moral violations, and the process of relational repair and reconciliation, especially between groups, and social comparison. Ongoing projects include cross-cultural studies on processes of forgiveness, and the impact of social comparison information on tobacco cessation success.
Website Lab Managers & Honors Thesis Students Email:
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Marianna Horton | Lab Manager
Marianna is a rising senior at the University of Florida, double majoring in Psychology and Criminology, and minoring in Statistics. Marianna is interested in the intersection between social and clinical psychology, such as how social media and relationships impact body image and eating disorders. She is planning on pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology. 2023-2024 Lab Members and Affiliates
2023-2024 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members: Joshua Perlin, Elisha LePine, Yijun Lin, Erin Westgate, Anaïs Ortiz, Marianna Horton, Sooyeon Park, Shyam Dhulashia, Zhongchi Li, Derek Simon
Lab Alumni Email: [email protected]
Yijun Lin received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Florida in 2024. She has broad interests in motivation, self-regulation, and emotions. Her primary work focuses on procrastination, understanding the emotional mechanisms of procrastination and how to promote goal striving when procrastinating.
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Derek Simon received his bachelor's in psychology from the University of Florida in 2024. His research interests reside in Personality Psychology, and the many factors that influence our specific emotions and behaviors across different contexts. He is currently a PhD student in the social and personality psychology area at Washington University.
Previous Lab Photos
2022-23 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members: (front; L to R) Rachel Forsyth, Yijun Lin, Derek Simon, Josh Perlin, Ashley Krause; (back, L to R) Elisha LePine, Alma Scholz, Anaïs Ortiz, Erin Westgate
2021-22 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members:
Marjorie Prokosch, Samantha Douglas, Anaïs Ortiz (on the tree), Gaelle El Helou, Elisha LePine (on the tree), Erin Westgate (on the tree), Yijun Lin
2020-21 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab Members:
Samantha Douglas, Erin Westgate, Yijun Lin, Josh Perlin, Abhay Alaukik, Elsa Jiang, Gaelle el Helou
2019-2020 Florida Social Cognition and Emotion Lab
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