Dr. Dougherty received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Stony Brook University. Dr. Dougherty is the Director of Clinical Training and the Director of the Big Emotions Across Development Lab (BEAD) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research is in the field of developmental psychopathology and broadly examines the phenomenology, etiology and course of depression from a developmental, lifespan perspective.
Dr. Terrill O. Taylor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and is affiliated with the Counseling program area. He joined the University of Maryland in Fall 2023 after completing his doctoral studies at the University of North Dakota and he completed his predoctoral internship at the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Taylor is also a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture at Boston College.
Dr. Willis received his Ph.D. from the Clinical Psychology program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed an APA-accredited internship at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral research training at Columbia University’s School of Social Work and University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice, and he completed postdoctoral clinical training working with children and adults at Madison Park Psychological Services in New York City. Dr.
Dr. Ethan Mereish is an Associate Professor and the director of the Lavender Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He's also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Brown University. He completed his doctoral training at Boston College, a clinical psychology residency at Harvard Medical School, and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brown University.
I am a Professor in the Department of Psychology (Clinical and CNS Area Groups), core faculty member of the interdepartmental Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Doctoral Program and the Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC), and Director of the Affective and Translational Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Maryland. My work has been continuously supported by the NIH since 2016 and led to well over 100 publications (h-index: 55).
Daniela graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. In 2026, she began her doctoral training in the Cognitive and Neural Systems Doctoral Program at the University of Maryland, where her research focuses on cognitive-affective processes related to substance abuse and neuropsychiatric disorders.
Dr. Nathan Cheek (PhD, Princeton University) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He studies how people make sense of their own and others' experiences and choices, with particular interest in biased beliefs that perpetuate and magnify inequality. Research in Dr. Cheek's lab has especially focused on people's beliefs about poverty and sexual harassment, and other recent work has investigated how people perceive their choices in relation to their identities and goals. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Dr.
Dr. Noah Triplett is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Prior to moving to the School of Public Health, Dr. Triplett was an Assistant Research Professor and member of the Global Mental Health and Addiction Program and CESAR--the Center for Substance Use, Addiction & Health Research in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS).
Dr. Weizhen Xie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Brain and Behavior Institute. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Renmin University of China and pursued research training at the University of California, Davis, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He then completed his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where he studied the neurocognitive mechanism of visual short-term memory precision. Following his Ph.D., Dr.