Close Relationships Lab
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Research Directors
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B.A., Psychology, Marquette University, 2004
M.S., Clinical Psychology, Marquette University, 2007
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Florida State University, 2014
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In his limited free time, Levi enjoys following college basketball and football, exploring our country's fine cities, and spending time with his brilliant and beautiful wife. He also enjoys plenty of embarrassing television shows, playing video games, and is a huge music fan (check out the shows I've been to!). Finally, despite not having kids, he is slowly turning into a suburban dad by caring entirely too much about his lawn, grilling, and rocking white New Balances.
B.A., Psychology, University of Tennessee, 2007
M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Tennessee, 2010
Ph.D., Social Psychology, Florida State University, 2015
When she’s not focusing on teaching and research, Michelle continues her slow progression toward becoming one of the Golden Girls by attempting to revive the underappreciated art of cross-stitching, making up ridiculous songs with her husband to sing to their cat, and perfecting her cooking skills (although she’s still working on her cheesecake recipe).
Graduate Students
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B.A., Psychology, University at Buffalo, 2024
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Angelia is a PhD student in the Close Relationships Lab. Her research interests broadly focus on empathic accuracy within couples; she is especially interested in the relationship between empathic accuracy and listening quality within live conversations. In her spare time, Angelia enjoys reading fiction, cooking, and brewing (more importantly, drinking) teas.
B.A., Psychology & African American Studies, Johns Hopkins, 2024
Julian is a PhD student in the Close Relationships Lab. His research interests lie in couple’s shared cognition about relationship dynamics (e.g., how they understand a problem). He is especially interested in perceived vs actual sharedness of partner’s mental representations. In his spare time, Julian enjoys watching more basketball than he should, spurning measurements when cooking, and trying new restaurants with friends.
Project Coordinator
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B.A., Biology and Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University 2025
Juni is a project coordinator in the Close Relationships Lab. When she’s not working with couples, you can find her on a hike, drinking some coffee, or engaged in a battle with an electron microscope. Right now, her primary research area is determining what kind of dog she and her fiancé should get when they can finally afford a house, but eventually she hopes to translate her experience with active listening into a peer-support-based intervention for college students.