Chelsie Young's site
Chelsie M. Young Graduate Student About Me: I am currently a second year Master's student at William and Mary. I received my Bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Eastern Illinois University. In my undergraduate career, I pursued cognitive research with Dr. Morton Heller exploring visual and haptic illusions. I was also interested in social psychology and completed an Honors Thesis with Dr. Steven Scher regarding types of prayer. Over the Summer of 2009 I interned in Dr. Brenda Major's Self and Intergroup Relations Lab at the Univeristy of California-Santa Barbara. Current Research: I am interested in the effects of attention, emotion, and motivation on behavior, particularly in the context of substance use. My current research, with advisers Dr. Cheryl Dickter and Dr. Cathy Forestell, investigates how factors such as current substance use and family history of alcohol and tobacco use affect college students' attentional biases and affective responses to alcohol and smoking-related cues. I am also interested in how the properties of substance-related cues can influence these responses. My first year project explored the influence of motivation to drink on attentional bias to alcohol cues in college students. My thesis seeks to better understand affect associated with substance use by measuring implicit affective reactions to alcohol cues using the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP), EEG, and the startle blink procedure. I am currently a teaching assistant for Dr. Chris Ball's Cognition and Thinking Lab.
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