The people of the
Queens Affective Sciences Laboratory


Justin Storbeck, Ph.D.
Justin earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Virginia, and his postdoctoral training included EEG. His research examines what makes emotion both adapative and maladaptive for behavior, and the effects it has metabolic expenditures and high-level cognition. In addition, he also examines how emotion influences perception, learning, and memory. Vitae

Brittany Bascetta, M.A.
Brittany is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Neuropsychology. She recently earned her M.A. in Psychology from Queens College, CUNY examining the development of inhibition and attention in children. She previously earned her B.S. in Psychology in SUNY Stony Brook. Her research interests include examing neuropsychological deficits in medical populations. She is currently studying spatial-relational memory deficits in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.


Katie Dana
Katie earned her BA in Psychology at SUNY Geneseo, where she researched personality and developmental psychology. She worked in acute impatient psychiatry for two years before entering the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Queens College in Fall 2014. Katie is especially interested in mood and anxiety disorders, and is currently conducting EEG research in order to explore electrophysiological markers of cognition-emotion interactions.

Current Students
Stephen Eder, Masters
Sandra Kennedy, Masters
Loretta Hadjioannou, Masters
Danielle Cohen
Jackie Shay
Jennifer Itty
Simranjit Kaur
Heidy Martinez
Naomi Rosenbach
Nicholas West
Samantha Chiu
Victoria Hanson

Former Graduate Students

Philip Watson, Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology
Jessica Dayboch, M.A.
Nicole Davidson, M.A.
Sabrina Peitler, M.A.

Former Lab Coordinators

Lindsay Thonsen

Former Undergraduates

Ashley Barlev, Raeya Maswood, Rosina Pzena, Julie Itty
Danna Galed, Chelsea Dahl, Julia Feldman, Rachel Feldman
Sara Blass, Nicole Rizzo, Abby Kashi, Aliza Schwartzblatt
Atara Schlam, Damian Sidorski, Danny Hertzog, Dolores Paul
Elisheva Laks, Esther Halpern, John DeFrancisci, Mila Alishayeva
Nicole Boord, Nicole Vinti, Polina Natanelova, Rachel Reich
Risa Mannis, Shaine Abbani, Talia Schwerd, Tamar Blank
Yedida Hoffman, Yishai Kadry, Zina Natanelova, Nicole Lazazzaro
Ariel Simantov, Cindy Urdinola, Aaron Cohen, Nicole Perrotta
Lauren Rosen, Allison Willig


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