Beatris Garcia

Beatris Garcia

Graduate Student

Beatris a second-year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research centers around the study of the transdiagnostic features of mood and anxiety disorders in daily life. She is currently interested in exploring how perseverative thinking (e.g., worry, rumination) influences an individual’s emotion regulatory behaviors (e.g, strategy selection and flexibility). At WashU, she hopes to expand this program of research to study the phenomenological experience of these transdiagnostic mechanisms of psychopathology. Beatris graduated with a B.S. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018. She then spent two years as a postgraduate research associate at Yale University followed by one year as research associate at the UPMC Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic before joining the Emotion and Mental Health Lab.

Alison Tuck, M.A.

Alison Tuck, M.A.

Graduate Student

Alison is a fourth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in the intersection between clinical and social sciences and in how these two domains interact to influence mood and emotion regulation, with a particular focus on Major Depression and anxiety disorders. Some of her specific interests include the influence of social networking sites on emotion and mental health and the role of interpersonal emotion regulation in the course and etiology of mood disorders. Alison graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Binghamton University in 2016. She spent one year working as a research assistant at Yale University followed by two years working as a project coordinator at UC Berkeley before joining Dr. Thompson’s lab at WashU.

Yiqin Zhu

Yiqin Zhu

Graduate Student

Yiqin is a first-year doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is mainly interested in understanding transdiagnostic processes (e.g., repetitive negative thinking) underlying mood and anxiety disorders. In particular, he aims to delve deeper into these underlying mechanisms by leveraging computational methods and digital phenotyping (e.g., through smartphones and wearables). He has been named a McDonnell International Scholar in his pursuit of PhD at Wash U. He has also been appointed as the associated editor for the Clinical Psychologist (2022-2025), an official publication of the Society for Clinical Psychology (APA Div. 12). Yiqin holds an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Psychology from Peking University. Prior to joining Dr. Thompson’s lab, Yiqin spent two years working as a research assistant for an NIMH-funded LGBTQ+ suicide prevention trial and a MSRC-funded intensive daily assessment study on sleep and suicide at the University of Pennsylvania.