Thuvaraka is in her fourth year of Bsc Honors Psychology minoring in Biology. She recently completed her thesis investigating the role of empathy in children’s perception of social robots in the context of teaching.
Barbara is in her fourth year in BA Honors Psychology minoring in Social Development Studies. She is interested in cognitive and clinical psychology, with a target population of children. She helps with recruitment and coding in the lab.
Moneka is in her 4th year in the Honours Psychology BSc program at the University of Waterloo. She is currently working on her Honours Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Liz Nilsen, where she is taking a closer look into how children and adolescents communicate in video gaming contexts. She is broadly interested in studying psychopathology in children, adolescents, and young adults, and she hopes to one day help expand our understanding of and interventions for certain psychopathologies and maladaptive behaviours.