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Benjamin Brown Contact Info:	The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really
Ashley Craig Contact Info: abcraig@ncsu.edu	I am the newest researcher in the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behavior Lab. My teaching assistantship is split between Introductory Psychology and Psychology of Gender so I am getting a broadened experience in my first year in the Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program here at North Carolina State University. I received an Honors B.A. in Psychology from Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and was very happy to return to my home town for graduate school.
Gwynn Dillard Contact Info: gywnn_dillard@ncsu.edu	Gwynn is a fourth-year student in Developmental Psychology. She graduated with a B.S. Biology from UNC in December 2000 and received her M.S. Psychology from NCSU in 2004. Her research interest in the development of children’s memory has come to focus primarily on the emergence of autobiographical memory, and hence the offset of childhood amnesia. Gwynn is also interested in changes in autobiographical memory during middle childhood. She has taught Lifespan Development and Child Development. Currently, she is a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for Developmental Science in Chapel Hill, NC.
Laura Eischen Contact Info: lleische@ncsu.edu	Laura is a first year developmental student whose research interests are in the area of cognitive aging. She graduated from Meredith College in 2002 with a B.A in Psychology. As an undergraduate, Laura conducted research on topics of metaphoric comprehension, stress and rumination, and levels of processing. She presented at numerous local, state, and national conferences. Before joining the developmental program at NC State, Laura worked on a national survey at Research Triangle Institute. Currently, she is working with Dr. Shevaun Neupert in the Daily Well-Being in Adulthood lab and examining stress and control beliefs on cognitive performance. Besides working on research, Laura enjoys watching and playing sports. Her favorite sport is ice hockey and you can catch her playing on the NC State Ladypack Team.
Alyssa Gamaldo Contact Info: agamaldo@ncsu.edu	Alyssa is a first year developmental psychology student. She graduated from North Carolina State University in 1999, with a B.A. in Psychology. After graduation, Alyssa worked for the Alzheimer’s disease Research Center at Johns Hopkins University for 5 years. She earned a M.S. in 2004 from Johns Hopkins University in Developmental Psychology. Her research interests are in cognitive aging in African Americans and accessing early cognitive impairment.
Alison Parker Contact Info: aeduff@ncsu.edu	I am a researcher in the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behavior Lab, and I am also an Advisor in the Undergraduate Advising Office. I moved from Ontario, Canada to join Dr. Halberstadt’s lab after meeting her at a SRCD conference. I received an Honors B. A. in Psychology from the University of Windsor, Ontario and my M. A. in Life-Span Developmental Psychology from Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario. I successfully passed my prelims last year here at NC State, and am now working on my dissertation, as well as several other projects.
Lauren Pierce Contact Info: lepierce@ncsu.edu	Lauren is a second-year Developmental student whose research interests include child testimony, children’s memory in stressful contexts, memory valence and how this is connected with internal states language, and also how interviewing serves to preserve children’s memory in the face of retroactive interference. She graduated in 3 years time Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is currently employed as a teaching assistant in Educational Psychology. Lauren is currently working on her Master’s thesis examining the effects of initial interviews on pre-Kindergarten children’s subsequent recall and resistance to retroactive interference. Lauren is also an active member in the Memory and Narrative Development (M&ND) lab, currently working on a project to examine the efficacy of LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry Word Count) coding compared to hand coding of internal states language.
Karen (Beale) Rudd Contact Info: karen747@nc.rr.com	This year I have two research homes: I am a researcher in both the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behavior Lab and the Aging and Cognition Lab. Just to keep busy, I am also currently teaching Introduction to Psychology to 200 undergraduates. I received my B. S. from the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, my M. A. from East Tennessee State University in general psychology. I finished my prelims last year here at NC State, and am currently working on my dissertation, as well as several other projects in various states of completion
Becky Siceloff Contact Info: ersicelo@ncsu.edu	Becky is a second-year graduate student in the Developmental Psychology program. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from the University of Wyoming in 2003. During the last year of her stint in Wyoming, she earned a second bachelor’s from UW in Criminal Justice in 2004. Currently, Becky is involved in the Memory and Narrative Development (M&ND) lab at NCSU. Her research focus is the development of narrative coherence, which will serve as the topic of her master’s thesis.
Rebecca Stelter Contact Info: rlstelte@ncsu.edu	I am a researcher and Lab Manager in the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behavior Lab. I am also have a part-time stint as a teaching assistant for Child Psychology. I hail from Plano, Texas, and attended college at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. I am now in my second year in the Developmental Psychology Ph.D. program here at North Carolina State University and I am currently working on my master’s thesis, and one or two other exciting projects as well.
Mary Styers Contact Info: Mary_Styers@ncsu.edu	Mary is a second-year Developmental student whose research interests include resiliency of self-worth following disappointment, the valence of memory and the relation to internal states language, and various coping strategies in children. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Psychology from North Carolina State in 2004. She is currently employed as a teaching assistant in Educational Psychology. As for research, Mary is currently working on her Master's thesis, which involves the resiliency of self-worth following a potential threat. In addition, she has been working on a project in the Memory and Narrative Development (M&ND) lab that examines individuals' memories for intensely negative experiences. When not doing research or attending classes, Mary spends time with her husband, Mick, and their mini schnauzer, Taylor.
Julie A. Thompson Contact Info: julieanne1@nc.rr.com	I am a researcher in the Family Affect, Beliefs, and Behavior Lab. I am also a freelance interviewer in the Pediatric Stem-cell transplant lab at Duke University and an assessment intern at UNC Chapel Hill. I received my B.A. from Bowling Green State University (Go Falcons!) in 2000, then worked at a Chicago hospital as a research assistant for one year. I finished my prelims a year ago at NC State, and am about to collect my dissertation data, as well as finish up several other projects
Kim Turner Contact Info: katurner@ncsu.edu	Kim is a first year developmental student.  She graduated from the University of Kansas in 2003 with a B.A. in Psychology and Human Development.  Her research interests include autobiographical memory of children.  Currently, she is employed as a research assistant at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation where she is involved in the institute’s initiative for 21^st century teaching and learning.
Sarah Weatherbee

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