Texas Tech University

People

The Language and Social Interaction Lab is in its sixth year at Texas Tech. See below for current and past lab members and affiliates.


Molly Ireland

Molly Ireland

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, '11
Email: molly.ireland@ttu.edu
Office: 320

Originally from rural Northeast Kansas. Main research interests include quantitative text analysis, fiction, language coordination, and linguistic influences on mental and physical health. Outside of research, she enjoys interacting with her several cats and dogs, reading fiction, gardening, and hiking.

Graduate Students

Roberto De La Rosa

Roberto De La Rosa

BS, University of Arizona, '16
Email: Roberto.de-la-rosa@ttu.edu

Third-year student currently interested in personality and the manifestation of individual differences in social media behavior and language use as well the psychology of situations and big data/data science.

Andrew Blake

Andrew Blake

BA, Florida Atlantic University, '16
Email: andrew.b.blake@ttu.edu
Office: BA 379B

Third-year PhD student originally from South Florida. Current research interests: Personality, Data Science, Face Analysis, Machine Perception, and Person-Job fit.

Sage Malipaard

Sage Maliepaard

BA, Green Mountain College, '16
Email: sage.maliepaard@ttu.edu
Office: 452E

Fifth-year PhD student.

Ashley Garcia

Ashley Garcia

BA, University of the Incarnate Word, '13
Email: ashley.garcia@ttu.edu
Office: 452E

Fifth-year PhD student interested in language as an expression of personality and individual differences, political affiliation and ideology, social cognitive processes, the Dark Triad, and substance abuse behavior.

Taleen Nalabandian

Taleen Nalabandian

BA, American University, '13; MA, Fairleigh Dickinson University, '15
Email: taleen.nalabandian@ttu.edu
Office: 452D

Sixth-year PhD student. Current research interests: linguistic indicators of depression, gender (stereotypes), close relationships, as well as the perception (and construction) of fictional narratives.

Micah Iserman

Micah Iserman

BA, University of Arizona, '13
Email: micah.iserman@ttu.edu
Office: 452D

Alum. Interests: person perception, gender, discourse markers, reported speech, deixis, simulation, dynamical systems.

Undergraduate Students

DanyalRizvi

Danyal Rizvi

First-year undergraduate student pursuing a bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Biology while on the pre-medicine track. Current research interests include language style matching, behavior modifications within marginalized groups, social chameleon-like behavior, gender, and the stigma associated with psychological disorders and its effects.