Principal Investigator
Regan Bernhard
bernharr@bc.edu
Regan is a lecturer at Boston College where she teaches courses on judgment and decision-making, neurodevelopment, and research methods, and oversees the Bernhard Lab. Prior to joining the faculty at BC, Regan was a postdoctoral fellow in the cognitive sciences department at Dartmouth College, working with Jonathan Phillips, and in the psychology department at Harvard University, working with Fiery Cushman and Josh Greene. Regan received her BA in psychology and Spanish from Wellesley College and her PhD in psychology from Harvard.
Lab Manager
Adriana Mayol
mayola@bc.edu
Adriana is a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Biology, and her research interests include the role of prejudice and stereotype influence in decision-making, and how people’s perception of others changes their judgment and decision-making.
Lab Members
Aveline Roderick
Aveline is a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Global Public Health and Environmental Studies. She is completing a Senior Honors Thesis with the lab next year, and she is particularly interested in moral judgments as well as healthcare and environmental decision-making.
Alyssa Bruno
Alyssa is a senior majoring in Psychology and her research interests include judgment and decision-making, biases in the media, signals of authority in the media, and the phenomenon of fake news.
Lauren Bae
Lauren is a junior majoring in Neuroscience and Sociology. Her research interests include moral judgments and decision-making, emotion, and impulse control.
Jasmine Maturana
Jasmine is a senior majoring in Neuroscience. Jasmine’s research interests include the questions: How are low-income first-generation students affected psychologically, spiritually, and socially, in American universities? Does passed down familial traumas and hardships affect performance in university? How so? How do disparities in the starting lines we are born into, or how much we start off with in our cup of life, affect us when we are all placed in the same institution?
Liliana Simmons
Liliana is a senior with a Psychology major and an Accounting for Finance and Consulting minor. She is interested in the relationships between thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and how individuals develop a sense of self. She is also curious about voluntary versus involuntary behavior and the implications of these classifications.
Priscilla Colon
Priscilla is a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Public Health. Her research interest include exploring the mental processes behind moral decision-making or understanding how hypothetical thinking is represented in the brain.
Matthew Martello
Abigail Regan
Sevine Klitz
Phoebe Barnes