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Tina Bryk
Researcher
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I have been working as a research assistant for Dr. Berenbaum since August of 1993. I began working for her as a full-time assistant while she was a faculty member at the University of Health Sciences/ Chicago Medical School and then continued to work as a part-time assistant from a "home" office while Dr. Berenbaum held a faculty position at SIU School of Medicine. I am now very happy to be continuing as a full-time assistant, still from a "home" office, since Dr. Berenbaum has moved to The Pennsylvania State University. Living in northern Illinois makes me close to many subjects in one of Dr. Berenbaum’s studies who live in the Midwest.
In addition to my work as a research assistant, I received my MSW and worked for a while as a school social worker in a pre-kindergarten through eighth grade elementary school district. My greatest joy at this time is raising my son, Gabriel who was born in October of 2000. In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my son and husband, along with other family and friends. I also enjoy working out, reading, bike riding, photography, and watching movies.
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Lori Alegnani
Researcher
laa11@psu.edu |
I began working as a research assistant for Dr. Berenbaum at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in June 1999 after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May. After a year and a half in the lab, I changed my career path and moved to Chicago to study interior design. During this time, as Dr. Berenbaum moved her study to The Pennsylvania State University, I continued to work on the project from a home office in Chicago.
In December 2002, I graduated with a BFA in Interior Design and soon after started working as a Designer for Office Equipment Company of Chicago. Though I am no longer working full time for Dr. Berenbaum and her Penn State lab, I do keep in touch and help out on an as needed basis.
In my spare time, I enjoy dining out with friends, volunteering with the elderly, shopping and exploring my neighborhood in the city.
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Matt DiDonato
Researcher
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I am a graduate student in the Department of Family and Human Development at Arizona State University. In addition to working with Dr. Berenbaum, I work with Dr. Carol Martin on the Understanding School Success project. I conduct research on gender identity and gender-typed peer interactions. More specifically, my interests lie in the multidimensionality of gender and how it is related to adjustment, and on the nonlinear structure of children's gendered play patterns over time.
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Becky Brooker
Graduate Student
rjb345@psu.edu |
I came to the Penn State graduate program in Psychology in the Fall of 2006 and began doing work with Dr. Berenbaum in the spring of 2007. I did my undergraduate work at Central College in Pella, IA and am currently a PhD student in the Develomental Psychology program here at Penn State. My general research interests include the development and regulation of emotions, sex differences in children’s behaviors, and biological influences on social-emotional behaviors. In my free time, I embrace any opportunity to travel or spend time with friends and family. I also have a love for live music and for playing and/or watching sports.
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Ian C.B. Lam
Graduate Student
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I am a first-year graduate student in the Department of Family and Human Development at Penn State. In addition to working with Dr. Berenbaum, I work with Dr. Susan McHale in Family Relations Projects. My research orientation lies broadly in gender- and sexuality-related issues. Specifically, I want to study gender as a multi-dimensional construct and explore how its components (e.g., gender identity, gender attitudes, gender-typed behaviors and interests, sexual orientation) develop since childhood through adolescence. It is more than likely that different social, psychological, and biological factors would come into play, and I would like to build on prior studies, and further examine their effects and unravel their possible interactions in predicting gender-related variables.
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