People
Principle Investigator of Childhood Experience & Adult Outcomes Lab
Kathleen Malley-Morrison

KATHLEEN MALLEY-MORRISON is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Developmental Science Program, Boston University. She is lead author (with Denise A. Hines) of Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective(Sage, 2004), co-author of Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse(Sage, 2005), and editor of International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse (Erlbaum, 2004). She also assembled and edited a four volume series on State Violence and the Right toPeace, the International Handbook of War, Torture, and Terrorism (with Hines and McCarthy), and the International Handbook of Peace and Reconciliation (with Mercurio and Twose). She has a blog, http//:engagingpeace.com, and monthly e-newsletter, Choosing peace for good. Email: kkmalley@bu.edu; kkmalley@comcast.net
Doctoral Student
Fang Hong

Fang is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Developmental Science Program, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University. She is from China. Prior to joining BU, she got her B.A. from Northeast Normal University in 2010 and M.A. from New York University in 2012. Her interests lie within childhood experience, emotion regulation, and emotion development in various contexts. The study she is focused on looks at how childhood maltreatment affects stress psychophysiology, such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia and skin conductance, during social interactions. Besides, she is also interested in how culture can exert an influence on emotion recognition.
Email: fhong@bu.edu
Assistant Lab Managers
Stephanie Rapoport

Stephanie is a junior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She recently joined the CEACS Lab in the fall as a research assistant. Her interests lie in developmental psychology, and she plans on continuing her education at a graduate level for Child Psychology.
Denise Graf

Denise is a senior on the pre-medical track majoring in Psychology and minoring in Biology. She is interested in developmental psychology as well as abnormal psychology. Outside of the lab, she works as an EMT, and volunteers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Siyu Liu

Siyu is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences in Boston University, majoring in psychology. She is interested in Cognitive and Behavior Development and would love to continue her interest in graduate school. She loves to read and watch movie when she is free.
Antonella Marcon
Antonella is a sophomore at Boston University studying Behavior and Health in Sargent College. She is very interested in the developmental personalities of adults based on their childhood experiences and hopes to work in the field of clinical psychology or therapy in the future. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, going for walks, giving tours of BU as an Admissions Ambassador, and getting to know people!
Yijing Lin

I am Yijing Lin, a rising junior studying Psychology with a potential double major in Religion. I am interested in topics related to resilience, war and peace, and religion. In my free time, I love volunteering, particularly with elderly and immigrants, though my favourite volunteering experience is reading children’s books for children in hospital. I also love travelling and trying food from different countries.
Jiahao Song

Carolyn Amir

Carolyn is a Boston University senior majoring in psychology and minoring in Japanese language and culture. Her research interests include childhood maltreatment, eating disorders, and resiliency; media literacy development; and using transcranial direct-current stimulation to understand cognitive processing
Gyuheun Lee (Sasi)

I am now junior at BU majoring in psychology and minoring in visual arts. I am most interested in clinical psychology and abnormal psychology. I hope to work in the field of clinical psychology in the future. During my free time, I like to watch movies and play soccer!
Alumnae
Anna Samkavitz Katheryn Lefton

Ashley Close Nicole Close


Celeste Hamre Natalia Lopez


Calli Ding Xuemeng Wu

Yueyu Chen Eliza Zhitnik
