Lab Director
William J. Chopik, Ph.D.
chopikwi@msu.edu
Bill received his B.S. in psychology and sociology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2015. Bill is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Social/Personality area at Michigan State University.
Graduate Students
Hyewon Yang, M.A.
yanghyew@msu.edu
Hyewon is a fourth-year graduate student in the Social/Personality program at MSU (co-mentored with Rich Lucas). She studies the intersection of relationships and personality psychology. Hyewon is interested in dyadic lifespan development and interpersonal perceptions. She likes to grapple with causal inference topics by leveraging different longitudinal lagged models and natural experiments. By using longitudinal or multi-dyad large data sets, she seeks to answer an ultimate question: how to live happily and healthily ever after with different people.
Aislinn Low, B.S.
lowaisli@msu.edu
Aislinn is a second-year graduate student in the Social/Personality program at MSU. She received her BS in Neuroscience and Behavior from the University of New Hampshire in 2022 and spent two years working as a postgraduate associate at the Yale School of Medicine. Aislinn is interested in personality, person perception, and support in relationships.
Friends of the Lab
We have a proud legacy of having a lot of undergraduate research assistants, collaborators, and friends that have worked on lab-related projects over the years. Here is just a short list of people that at one point were formally part of the lab!
Rebekka Weidmann, Ph.D., Former Postdoctoral Fellow
David Johnson, Ph.D., Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Mariah Purol, Ph.D., Former Graduate Student
Jeewon Oh, Ph.D., Former Graduate Student
Andrew Defever, Ph.D., Former Graduate Student
Katie Leahy, Ph.D., Former Graduate Student
Manon van Scheppingen, Ph.D., Former Visiting Scholar
Ji Hyun Lee, Ph.D., Former Graduate Student Affiliate
Lindsay Ackerman, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant
Joshua Confer, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant
Leo Norling, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant
Ethel Xu, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant
Zach Sundin, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant
Ali Kalam, B.S., Former Undergrad Research Assistant and Fulbright Fellow
Rachel Bach, B.S., Former SROP Student
Nyla Wofford, B.S., Former SROP Student
Jhante’ Rivet, B.S., Former SROP Student
Adonaia-Ambition Christian Patterson, B.S., Former SROP Student
Michelle Vargas, Former SROP Student
Marcus Ward, Former SROP Student
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