Al Johnson, M.A. (6th year graduate student)
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I am a sixth year clinical psychology graduate student in the Psychology and Law concentration, under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Glenn. My clinical supervisor is Dr. Jennifer Cox. I am currently on internship at the Detroit VA, and next year will be completing a postdoc at the Palo Alto VA.
I grew up throughout the Midwest and most recently lived in Minneapolis, MN prior to moving to Alabama. I received my B.A. magna cum laude in Psychology and Spanish, with a minor in Family Studies from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. I recently received my M.A. from the University of Alabama. My master’s thesis examined the relationship between a wide-range of personality traits and problematic externalizing behaviors (i.e., aggression, alcohol and drug use, academic misconduct, risky driving, etc.) among college students. Currently I am working on my dissertation, which focuses on extending findings from the adult research literature on the relationship between hormones (i.e., cortisol and testosterone) and psychopathy (i.e., aggression and callous-unemotional traits) downward to adolescents. Broadly, my research interests are in personality and antisocial behavior, including psychopathy. For an example, please see “Elucidating the associations between psychopathy, Gray’s Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory constructs, and externalizing behavior” (Johnson, Sellbom, & Phillips, 2014). You can also contact me at akjohnson6@crimson.ua.edu. |
Rheanna Remmel, M.A. (5th year graduate student)
I am fifth year clinical psychology graduate student in the Psychology and Law concentration, working under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Glenn, and under the clinical supervision of Dr. Jennifer Cox.
I grew up in Wisconsin and received my B.A. magna cum laude in Psychology from Marquette University in May 2013. My master's thesis explored the relationship between psychopathic traits and moral decision-making in adolescents.
My current major research project, the Brain and Behavior Development Study, is examining the development of the neural correlates of moral decision-making over a three-year period in adolescence. This project is the first of its kind, and will work both to replicate research previously done in adults and to give an insight into specifically how the brain changes over a significant portion of adolescence.
Email: rjremmel@crimson.ua.edu
I grew up in Wisconsin and received my B.A. magna cum laude in Psychology from Marquette University in May 2013. My master's thesis explored the relationship between psychopathic traits and moral decision-making in adolescents.
My current major research project, the Brain and Behavior Development Study, is examining the development of the neural correlates of moral decision-making over a three-year period in adolescence. This project is the first of its kind, and will work both to replicate research previously done in adults and to give an insight into specifically how the brain changes over a significant portion of adolescence.
Email: rjremmel@crimson.ua.edu
Leah Efferson, M.A. (4th year graduate student)
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I am a fourth year developmental psychology graduate student working with Dr. Andrea Glenn.
I am originally from Ohio and received my B.A. summa cum laude in psychology in 2013 from a small liberal arts school called Hiram College near Cleveland, Ohio. My interests include how morality, empathy, and psychopathy develop over the lifespan and the neural correlates of these constructs throughout life. I would like to use this research to help design interventions for children and adolescents who may display callous-unemotional traits and/or behavior problems. I am also interested in gender differences in psychopathy based off my experiences interviewing inmates at a women's prison. In my previous lab, I studied gender differences in morality between men and women scoring high in psychopathy and would like to continue this line of research. My last interest involves how the term "psychopath" influences courtroom decisions. You can contact me at lefferson@crimson.ua.edu for more information. |
Virginia Lamoureux, B.A. (2nd year graduate student)
I am a second year clinical psychology student in the Psychology and Law concentration, working with Dr. Andrea Glenn.
I am an Alabama native and received my B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Alabama.
My research interests generally focus on psychopathy and forensic evaluation. Specifically, I am interested in gender differences in psychopathy, and adversarial allegiance affecting the use of forensic evaluation in the legal system. Currently I am working on my master’s thesis, which will focus on analyzing fear in psychopathy as the separate processes of the conscious experience of fear and automatic threat response, as well as possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between psychopathy and fear.
Email: vajones3@crimson.ua.edu
I am an Alabama native and received my B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Alabama.
My research interests generally focus on psychopathy and forensic evaluation. Specifically, I am interested in gender differences in psychopathy, and adversarial allegiance affecting the use of forensic evaluation in the legal system. Currently I am working on my master’s thesis, which will focus on analyzing fear in psychopathy as the separate processes of the conscious experience of fear and automatic threat response, as well as possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between psychopathy and fear.
Email: vajones3@crimson.ua.edu
