Research Team

Principal Investigator


Dr. Alan D. Castel
castel@ucla.edu
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Post-Doctoral Scholars


Ashley Miller
ashleymiller@psych.ucla.edu
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Current Graduate Students


Karina Agadzhanyan
karadefrost@g.ucla.edu
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Kylie Alberts
albertsk@g.ucla.edu


Ashley Chen
ashleychen1@g.ucla.edu


Kara Hoover
karahoover@ucla.edu
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Graduates of the Lab


Mary Whatley Ph.D. (2024)
Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University
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Kat Silaj  Ph.D. (2024)
Assistant Professor, Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles
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Dillon Murphy Ph.D. (2023)

Post-Doc at Arizona State University

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Shawn Schwartz M.A. (2021)

Graduate Student at Stanford University
shawnschwartz@ucla.edu
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Alex Siegel, Ph.D. (2020)
Quantitative UX Researcher, Lyft
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Mary Hargis, Ph.D. (2019)
Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University

Research Scientist at IXL Learning

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Adam Blake, Ph.D. (2018)
Post-Doc, UCLA
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Catherine Middlebrooks, Ph.D. (2018)

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Joseph Hennessee, Ph.D. (2018)
Post-Doc, UT-Dallas


Michael Cohen, Ph.D. (2015)
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Shannon McGillivray, Ph.D. (2013)
Assistant Professor, Weber State University, Utah
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Michael Friedman, Ph.D. (2013)
Research Fellow, Harvard Initiative for Learning & Teaching

Manager, Learning & Development, Wayfair

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Past Research Fellows


Dr. Kou Murayama
University of Reading, UK
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Dr. Kenji Ikeda
Nagoya University, Japan

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