Derrick Ocampo
Derrick is a 5th year Ph.D. student from San Diego, CA. In 2015, he graduated from California State University San Marcos with a B.A. in Psychology. He is interested in socio-emotional development. Specifically, he is interested in the development of memory for emotions, social referencing, emotion understanding, and theory of mind and emotion.
Contact info: docampo7@ucmerced.edu
Zeynep Özden
Zeynep is a 4th year Ph.D. student from Turkey. She graduated from Bilkent University in 2017, with a B.A. in Psychology. She is interested in socio-emotional development, specifically developmental trajectories of emotion understanding across discrete emotions and theory of mind and emotion understanding.
Contact info: zozden@ucmerced.edu
Sivenesi (Siv) Subramoney
Sivenesi is a third 4th PhD student from South Africa. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2016 with a MA in Neuropsychology. She is interested in socio-emotional development and development in the context of risk and resilience. She is currently researching how young adults help others from their heritage culture navigate emotion norms in the dominant culture.
Contact info: ssubramoney@ucmerced.edu
Manasa Ganesh Kumar
Manasa is a first-year graduate student from India. She graduated from the University of Bath in England with a BSc in Psychology. She is interested in infants’ and children’s understanding of others’ emotions and how people use others’ emotions to learn and reason about the world around them.
Contact info: mganeshkumar@ucmerced.edu
