Olivia Thompson (2nd year graduate student)
I am a clinical psychology student in the Clinical Child concentration. A native of Illinois, I received my B.A. summa cum laude in Psychology and Criminology from Drury University and my M.A. in Social Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa.
Most recently, I worked as a treatment provider with incarcerated individuals in the Seattle area. My current research interests include exploring how adverse childhood experiences impact overall development and promoting resilience, trauma-informed care for juvenile delinquents, and youth violence prevention within minority communities.
Email: othompson1@crimson.ua.edu
Most recently, I worked as a treatment provider with incarcerated individuals in the Seattle area. My current research interests include exploring how adverse childhood experiences impact overall development and promoting resilience, trauma-informed care for juvenile delinquents, and youth violence prevention within minority communities.
Email: othompson1@crimson.ua.edu
Lexie Harrison (3rd year graduate student)
I am in the Developmental Psychology program. I am originally from Hockessin, Delaware and received my B.S. in Psychology, with a minor in Child Maltreatment and Advocacy Studies, from The Pennsylvania State University. Additionally, I received post-baccalaureate research training at Yale University. My research interests primarily focus on the developmental pathways of antisocial behaviors. Specifically, I am interested in investigating how political ideology, psychopathy, and macro contextual factors may impact the development of antisocial behavior.
Email: apharrison@crimson.au.edu
Email: apharrison@crimson.au.edu
Brandon McCormick, M.A. (4th year graduate student)
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I am a clinical psychology student in the Psychology and Law concentration. I am a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and received summa cum laude from Penn State university with BA's Criminology and with honors in Psychology. My research interests focus on outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury (i.e., concussions), especially in children and youth. My current projects include a longitudinal study of children and adolescents who experienced a mild traumatic brain injury and a animal model study examining the behavioral changes and genetic differences in vulnerability in Mangrove Rivulus fish who were given an experimentally induced mild traumatic brain injury.
Email: bfmccormick@crimson.ua.edu |
Virginia Lamoureux, M.A. (6th year graduate student)
I am a student in the Social Psychology program. 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. My master’s thesis focused 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. My dissertation focuses on lay perspectives of psychopathy.
Email: vajones3@crimson.ua.edu
Email: vajones3@crimson.ua.edu
Past Graduate Students
Leah Efferson, Ph.D
Dr. Efferson graduated from the Developmental Science concentration in 2019. Her master's thesis focused on psychopathic traits, vengeance, and motivations to punish in criminal scenarios. Her dissertation focused on empathy-relevant processing in psychopathic offenders.
Email: lefferson@crimson.ua.edu
Email: lefferson@crimson.ua.edu
Rheanna Remmel, Ph.D.
Dr. Remmel graduated from the clinical psychology program in the Psychology and Law concentration in 2019. She completed her internship and a post-doc at Western State Hospital and is currently a forensic psychologist there. Her master's thesis explored the relationship between psychopathic traits and moral decision-making in adolescents. Her dissertation focused on social and affective functioning in incarcerated male adults with psychopathic traits.
Email: rjremmel@crimson.ua.edu
Email: rjremmel@crimson.ua.edu
Al Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Johnson received her PhD in the Psychology and Law concentration in 2018, under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Glenn. Her clinical supervisor was Dr. Jennifer Cox. She completed her internship at the Detroit VA, and completed a postdoc at the Palo Alto VA. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ball State University.
Her 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. Her dissertation focused 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.
Email: akjohnson6@crimson.ua.edu.
Her 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. Her dissertation focused 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.
Email: akjohnson6@crimson.ua.edu.
