Honors Students
Lux Carlson
Lux Carlson is in her last year of her undergraduate studies at UC Davis with a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and a minor in education. She began working with Dr. Eastwick as a teacher’s assistant for his Relationship Science (PSC-150) course (and still does!) in her junior year and began working in his lab soon after. She is studying the effects of the possession of particular traits and engagement in certain behaviors on levels of attraction, both towards people one has already experienced attraction to and novel individuals the participants haven’t seen before. She plans on taking a gap year or two working in social work before pursuing a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree and hopes to work with children and adolescents as a clinical psychologist. Lux is passionate about music and books and values time spent with friends and family.
Isabella Corina
Isabella is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in psychology with a focus on social and personality psychology. Her background includes contributions to cognitive neuroscience laboratories, where she was involved in electrophysiological research focused on examining language function in congenitally deaf children. She has also assisted in studies looking at visual attention in children with ADHD. After transferring to UC Davis from a local community college, her interests shifted towards relationship science, following her exploration of research conducted by Dr. Eastwick. She is currently pursuing a senior honors thesis that examines the malleability of internal belief systems that drive attributions of relationship fidelity. In conjunction with her research efforts, she serves as an undergraduate teaching assistant for an upper-division course in relationship psychology. After graduation, Isabella plans to pursue doctoral studies. Her long-term objective is to engage in research that advances the understanding of factors contributing to disruptions in healthy psychosocial developments.