People
Dr. Andy Luttrell
Lab Director (He/Him)
Dr. Luttrell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Ball State University. He completed his undergraduate degree in 2010 at Eastern Illinois University and completed his doctoral studies in 2016 at Ohio State University. He primarily studies when and why people’s attitudes change and the qualities of particularly durable attitudes such as moralization and emotionality. These interests include extensions of attitudes research to other areas such as neuroscience, culture, and intergroup relations. He’s the proud father of one cat and one human child.
Sydney Graham
Graduate Student (She/Her)
Sydney is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology MA program. Her research interests broadly involve discovering how big factors like emotion regulation and gender can influence each other and affect different circumstances in a person’s life and the events that occur. She previously investigated suicide and non-suicidal self-injury. She wishes to take her education and apply it to mental health advocacy and work with a non-profit. A fun fact about her is that she is training for a half marathon!
Rasheedah Adisa
Graduate Student (She/Her)
Rasheedah is a first-year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology MA program from Nigeria. Her research interests involve understanding factors that can aid or affect resilience and improve relationship health through various life-altering experiences like chronic illness, grief, and loss. She enjoys writing reflection-based pieces on life experiences and faith to inspire positive change in her audience and promote spiritual, mental, and emotional health and well-being. She also likes watching comedy TV shows and having soulful conversations in her free time.
Lab Alumni
Graduate Students
Tara Goering (2022-2024)
Liza Cohen (2021-2023)
Rylan Deer (2021-2023)
Anjusha Kumar (2021-2023)
Christopher Hattery (2021)
Rose Skelly (2019-2021)
Kaitlyn Dunn (2020-2021)
Keith Richards (2018-2019)
Amr Elshazly (2018)
Tollie Schultz (2017-2019)
JJ Togans (2017-2018)
Alexcia Kilgore (2018)
Undergraduate Students
Alicia Van Duyn (2022-2024)
DeFord Cope (2022-2023)
Ryan Hartsook (2022)
Presley Hess (2022)
Brianna Lopez (2021-2022)
Joseph Trentadue (2020-2021)
Hannele Burch (2020-2021)
Bobbie Burton (2019-2021)
Paulie Robinson-Stevens (2018-2021)
Olivia Snyder (2017)