The F.B.Ip Lab Recent Work How can I become Involved?
	Members Faculty: Dr. Karen Gasper Graduate Students: Kosha Bramesfeld Kosha has been a member of the FBIp lab for five years now, and has loved every minute of it (well most of the minutes of it).  She is interested in how feelings influence motivation, information processing, task preparation, and creativity in both individuals and groups.  She is particularly interested in how feelings influence group processes, such as group-level information processing, group decision making, and the development of group cohesion.  She is also generally interested in the processes by which people express and regulate moods within groups, and how this might result in the development of group moods over time.  She is currently working on a dissertation examining how feelings influence group-level information processing.  Kosha will be completing her Ph.D. this May, and is currently on the job market.  To learn more about her research, teaching, or personal interests, please visit her webpage (which you can get to by clicking on her name). Lavonia Smith LeBeau Lavonia is entering her third year here at Penn State.  Her primary research interests include affect, the self, and social cognition.  Currently she is working on a number of projects exploring the influence of various affective states on information seeking (specifically upward comparison seeking).  Lavonia will be spending the next year studying for comps and writing up her dissertation proposal.  When Lavonia is not working she enjoys spending time with her husband renovating their 120 year old Victorian house and playing with their two dogs. To learn more about Lavonia you can visit her webpage by clicking on her name. Cinnamon Danube Cinnamon is a first year student working with Karen Gasper.  Originally from Wisconsin, Cinnamon has spent the past several years conducting fMRI research at the National Institutes of Health and is now very excited about beginning her graduate studies. She has a general interest in judgment and decision making processes and would eventually like to examine the ways in which environmental factors interact with individual personality differences to increase the likelihood for engaging in risky behaviors, substance abuse, impulsivity, violence, and aggression.  In her free time Cinnamon loves listening to music, cooking, working out, watching movies, and doing anything in the great outdoors. Undergraduate Research Assistants: Halle Belosh Emily Brooks FBIp Laboratory Alumni*: Aaronell Matta:is starting her first year as a PhD student in Experimental Psychology at UNLV. Garnet Crossland: is staring her first year of law school at WVU. Maggie Muklewicz: starting her first year in the School Psychology program at U Delaware. Vincent Grande: a second year in the Clinical Psychology program at SUNY Stony Brook. Tayo Banjo: still here at PSU as a Graduate student in Media Effects in the Collge of Communications. Katherine Carr: is starting her third year of law school at U Pitt. * If you are a FBIp Lab alumni and do not appear here please drop us an email and let us know what you have been up to lately.