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.
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
Matthew is a senior majoring in psychology and minoring in marketing. His research interests include implicit bias, judgement and decision-making, and the development of individual morality.
Abigail Regan
Abby is a Junior majoring in neuroscience with a minor in Applied Psychology. Her research interests include the relationships between thought, morals, and behavior as well as social implications in behavior and decision making. She is also curious about how individuals develop critical thinking and decision making skills.
Sevine Klitz
Sevine is a junior majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Global Public Health. Her research interests include the effects of adverse childhood experiences on development, implicit bias and decision-making, and empathy within patient-clinician relationships.
Phoebe Barnes
Phoebe Barnes is a senior Psychology and English major at Boston College. She has been a part of the Bernhard Lab since Spring 2024, and is currently working on her Senior Honors Thesis. Her research investigates the social learning speeds of minority students at predominantly white institutions, and seeks to provide support for the Cultural Red King hypothesis which posits that minority groups learn at a faster rate.
Jasmine Maturana
Jasmine is a junior majoring in neuroscience. She is interested in researching how certain parts of a person’s being (language-experience, memories, media-usage, sleep) affects their social flexibility, health behavior, and other cognitive abilities.