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Psychological Sciences


Lab Personnel

Dr. Andrew Mienaltowski 
andrew.mienaltowski@wku.eduAndy Mienaltowski with his baby horse
Professor of Psychological Sciences
Lab Director

PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Aging/Adult Development and Aging), Georgia Institute of Technology (2008)
Research Interests: Aging, emotion, and social cognition

 

Alana and Sheila presenting at VSS 2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alana Medina-Disponett and Sheila To (BS in Psych Science alumni - Spring 2025) presenting their work on identifying pain relative to other negative emotions at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in May 2025

 

BriAnna Lowe and Emily Knapp

BriAnna Lowe and Emily Knapp presenting their exciting work on pareidolia at the 2022 Cognitive Aging Conference.

 

 Dixi Secula and Allison Rinne working on dataAlyssa working on thesis

Allison Rinne and Dixi Secula collecting ERP data.          Alyssa programming her master's thesis project.

 

Lab alumni completing their bachelor's honor thesis

Alex Bosworth, Kaitlyn Greer, William Hornsby, Shelby King, and Grace Salloum

 

Grace Salloum presenting

Grace Salloum discussing her honors thesis at the 2023 annual meeting of the Kentucky Academy of Science, Congratulations to Grace for earning the Mahurin Honors College's Thesis of the Year (Academic Year 2023-2024) 

 

Lab alumni completing their master's thesis

Siera Bramschreiber, Nicole Chambers, Brandon Coffey, Heather Dahlgren, Tashaunda Grimmett, Brittany Groh, Hayley Lambert, Ying-Han Li, BriAnna Lowe, Alyssa Minton, Allison Sklenar, and Ellen Young

Alyssa Minton Thesis Defense

 


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