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Dr. Cindy Hazan

 

Associate Professor

G63, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Email: ch34@cornell.edu

Curriculum Vitae


Profess Cindy Hazan is the Director of the Adult Attachment Laboratory at Cornell University.  Her current research focus is pair-bond formation which she investigates at multiple levels of analysis using a wide variety of methods.  The primary goal of present projects is to identify “markers” of attachment at the levels of brain, mind and behavior.  A recipient of the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, she is an internationally recognized scholar whose seminal work on affectional bonds helped define a new field of study in social and personality psychology.  Her 1987 article (coauthored with Phillip R. Shaver) “Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process” is one of the ten most cited articles ever published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  In addition to her original theoretical and empirical work, Dr. Hazan designed the course “Human Bonding,” which she has continued to develop and teach at Cornell for 25 years.


 

Gizem Surenkok

 

PhD Student

G94, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Email: gs536@cornell.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Gizem is a 4th year PhD student in Human Development. In her research projects in Adult Attachment Lab, Gizem focuses on how couples experience brief, short-term separations and what could be done to help individuals better cope with their partners’ absences. As part of the Markers of Attachment Project, she investigates how differences in separation responses could be behavioral, cognitive and physiological markers of adult attachment.

 

Sarah Merrill

 

PhD Student

G94, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Email: smm474@cornell.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Sarah is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Human Development working in the Adult Attachment Lab and Sex and Gender Lab at Cornell. Her work in focuses on the intersect between sex and attachment with an emphasis on how sex promotes the formation of mutual attachment from behavioral, cognitive, and neurochemical perspectives.

 

Anne Laurita

 

PhD Student

G94, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Email: acl74@cornell.edu

Curriculum Vitae

 

Anne is a 2nd year PhD student in Human Development. Her research is in the area of neural, behavioral, and cognitive markers associated with adult attachment relationships. She is primarily interested in understanding how mental representations of close others reflect the structure and function of underlying neural networks. As part of the Adult Attachment Lab’s ongoing Markers of Attachment Project (MAP), Anne has been investigating the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive markers of adult attachment and the processes by which such bonds are formed. She joined the Adult Attachment Lab in her second year as an undergraduate Human Development major and has thoroughly enjoyed her time with this group ever since.

 

Alana Becker

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: anb52@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Katelyn Fletcher

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: kkf26@cornell.edu

 

Nicola Katzman

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: nfk5@cornell.edu

 

 

 

Taylor Madison

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: tkm34@cornell.edu

Devin Massaro

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: dmm367@cornell.edu

Nadia Morehand

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: nvm6@cornell.edu

Callie Silver

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: hcs58@cornell.edu

Roxanne Rappaport

 

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Email: rsr244@cornell.edu