Tristen Inagaki, PhD
Lab Director
Tristen is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at San Diego State University and a mentor in the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program. Before moving to San Diego, she was an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Biological-Health and Social areas.
Email: tinagaki@sdsu.edu
Lauren Ross
Graduate Student
Lauren is a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on identifying protective social mechanisms, and to determine if they are adaptive and useful in mitigating the effects of social pain.
Email: lpr6@pitt.edu
Nicole Abaya
MA Graduate Student – to start Fall 2021
Project Coordinator – YOU!
We are currently recruiting a project coordinator to run a large clinical trial.
Current Research Assistants
Nancy Huynh
Solana Kenyon
Greta Majus
Kassandra Velasquez
Recent Lab Alumni
Sareen Ali (honors student) – medical student at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine
Belen Best (honors student) – intern in Corporate Law at Ropes & Gray, LLP
James Germano – graduate student at SMU Guildhall for a Master of Interaction Technology in video game creation and design
Laura Hazlett – graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Armfield-Perez – research assistant at New York University
Emily Simon – clinical research coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania
Yumeka Hirayama
Emefa Akwayena – Cognitive Neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon University (Fall 2021)
Sabine Janssen – research coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
