About me
Constance is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago (working with Dr. Fan Yang) interested in emotional expressivity, with an emphasis on self-talk, introspection, and intrapersonal communication. She also is the Principal Investigator for the Stream of Mind Lab, a cross-institution collaborative research group. She incorporates evolutionary, developmental, and psychological theories with natural language processing, acoustic analysis, and psychophysics methodologies. In particular, she's interested in understanding what influences and characterizes the flow of streams-of-consciousness, what behaviors makeup a constellation of self-communicative abilities, how interventions can be designed to improve self-directed experience of life, and the dynamics of emotional responses to creative experience. She received her MS (2022) and PhD (2026) in the Department of Communication at UCLA advised by Dr. Rick Dale and Dr. Greg Bryant, and previously studied classical violin performance at Boston University. During her career, she has conducted research on both visual memorability and auditory illusions with Dr. Aude Oliva (MIT), and infant and adult perception of cross-cultural vocal music with Dr. Samuel Mehr (Harvard). She also holds a graduate certificate in Front-End Web Development (Harvard Extension School, 2020).
Other interests: bouldering/rock climbing, songwriting, electronic music production, violin performance, visual art and graphic design, fiber arts (knitting and crochet).