Maylyn Mei
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Maylyn is a rising senior at Hunter College pursuing a degree in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy. She is interested in social decision making, judgment, and relationships as well as the psychiatric and developmental disorders that may affect these abilities.
This Summer she is doing research at Dr. Steve Chang’s lab at Yale University investigating the effects of psilocybin on social attention and behavior in macaques. At her home institution in Dr. Tracy Dennis’s Emotion Regulation lab, she studies social comparison among anxious adolescents on social media with Jen De Rutte. She is also working on a project that attempts to characterize biologically derived subgroups of anxiety to specific behaviors and symptoms using EEG connectivity patterns. She plans to apply to Neuroscience or Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. programs in Autumn of 2024 and hopes to integrate computational techniques and neuroimaging to better understand the mechanisms of social relationships and emotions. |