Graduate Students

Jingyi Wang is a graduated doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology PhD program. Jingyi received her B.S. in Psychology from Beijing Normal University in 2019. Her research focuses on children’s social and emotional development in the context of family. She is interested in exploring how parents’ and children’s personal characteristics, their interpersonal relationships, and broader socioeconomic ecologies interact in the family context and affect child and family wellbeing. Her recent research examines how interparental relationships (e.g., romantic relationships, coparenting relationships) affect fathers’ and mothers’ parenting behaviors and parental adjustment, with the goal to inform the design of programming to help families build healthy and cohesive relationships and promote children’s positive development.

Reed Donithen a sixth year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology PhD program. He received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of Rochester in 2018 working with Dr. Patrick Davies. His primary research interests include father involvement in childcare, parental leave, and coparenting. Reed often leads undergraduates on projects within the lab, most notably coding projects which use footage from the New Parents Project. Outside of the lab Reed enjoys tabletop games such as Dungeons and Dragons.

Julianna Calabrese is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology PhD program at The Ohio State University. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Smith College in 2018. Before coming to OSU, she worked two years as a research coordinator at the University of Michigan. She is interested in studying the impact of parenting practices and coparenting on child socio-emotional development and is currently working on her dissertation on emotion socialization in families. In her free time, Julianna enjoys trying out new baking recipes and answering R questions on StackOverflow.

F Kubra Aytac is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology PhD program at The Ohio State University. She graduated summa cum laude from Middle East Technical University in 2015, where she majored in Sociology with a double major degree in Philosophy and a minor degree in Political Science and Public Administration. She obtained two M.S. degrees from the same university: Psychology in 2019 and Sociology in 2018. Her master’s thesis about maternal gatekeeping received the “Best Thesis of the Year Award”. Her primary research interests are adult attachment, co-parenting, couple relationships, and father involvement. She likes to paint, play squash, and horseback riding.

Tinu Oduloye is a third-year doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology PhD program at The Ohio State University. She received her B.S. in Developmental Psychology and minor in Physical Activity and Health Promotion at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (U of M). In undergrad, she worked with Dr. Megan Gunnar on the impacts of parenting stress on parents attitudes (warmth and negativity) in early development. Her primary interests are to explore how parenting, co-parenting, and family dynamics play a role in children’s development. Also, to further understand how the child impacts the parent and vice versa. While she isn’t doing research, she enjoys traveling, spending time with family and friends, watching/playing sports, video games, and board games.