Lauryn Kathryn Davis

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President, Psi Chi, Allegheny College (International Psychology Honors Society), 05/2021 - 05/2022

• Hold bi-weekly general body meetings
• Delegate tasks to 3 board members to ensure all tasks are completed in a timely manner
• Help organize the 2021 Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference (WPUPC)
• Present at the WPUPC

Member, Sigma Tau Delta, Allegheny College (National English Honors Society), 04/2021 - Present

Diamond Liaison, Lambda Sigma, Allegheny College (Sophomore Honors Society), 04/2019 - 04/2020

• Interviewed members
• Compiled interviews into an article to be sent to the Diamond (Lambda Sigma's National Magazine)

DJ, WARC 90.3, Allegheny College, 09/2021 - 05/2022

• Curate original playlists for a weekly two-hour long radio show

Volunteer, Grounds for Change (GFC), Allegheny College, 09/2021 - 12/2021

• Complete a one-hour shift once a week with another volunteer
• Operate cash register

• Alden Scholar (Dean's List), 2018 - 2019, 2020 - 2021
• Distinguished Alden Scholar (High Dean's Listen), 2019 - 2020
• The Glenn W. Thompson Outstanding Junior Major Prize (Psychology Department), 2020 - 2021

Senior Thesis, Psychology Department, Allegheny College, 02/2020 - 05/2022 

• Why Don't We Want to Live?: An Exploration of Biracialism and Suicidal Ideation
• Responds to the question: How do American Biracial individuals experience suicidal ideation in the context of their racial identity?
• Acquire participants by utilizing Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
• Analyze both qualitative and quantitative results using JASP

Student Researcher, Cognitive Humanities Lab, Allegheny College, 2019 - 2022

• Serve as point-of-contact for students who are interested in joining the lab and provide them with information about how to get started
• Collaborate and discuss topics of interest at weekly lab meetings to identify future research questions
• Lead individual lab meetings, analyze data, and construct and create IRB's
• Transition previous research into articles for potential future publication
• Create and respond to original research questions with lab members via experiments
• Helped faculty member conduct several studies, exploring themes such as live performance impacts on mortality salience and the impact of empathy on Covid-19 mask wearing
• Studied emotions, specifically empathy, by exploring victorian era literature to identify psychological concepts that were depicted prior to the development of psychology
• Analyze results using SPSS

Summer Research Assistant, Allegheny College, 05/2021 - 08/2021

• Worked independently under the guidance of Dr. Aimee Knupsky to improve summer research experiences
• Compiled previous research and developed annotated bibliography