{"id":1232,"date":"2018-10-25T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/IClab\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:48:47","slug":"lab-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.psych.ualberta.ca\/IClab\/lab-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Spotlight!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to our Lab Spotlight! For the rest of the year, we will be introducing members of the lab, one by one. Our first student profile is of Yekta Sharafaddin-zadeh.<\/p>\n

**Who are you? Where are you from?**<\/em>
\nMy name is Yekta and I am in my third year of a BSc in Psychology. I lived in Iran until I was 10, moved to Victoria for grade 6 and 7, and to Edmonton in grade 8. My ethnic background is Persian, sometimes people use Iranian – this is one of the main factors that pushed my interest towards psychology and IC Lab. Aside from school, I love art, fashion, and for a while I did hair and makeup (as shown in the attached photos).<\/span><\/p>\n

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**Why did you decide to pursue a BSc?**<\/em>
\nI love science and am very passionate about chemistry. Initially I was going to do research in that field, but when I first started doing research in psychology I found it much more interesting. Regardless of my undergraduate degree, I hope to pursue medicine in the future, in hopes of being a surgeon.<\/p>\n

**What are you currently working on in the Lab?**<\/em>
\nI am helping with Dr. Chaffee\u2019s gender threat study as well as the lab-wide language learning study. But for my independent study I am looking at the relationship between interdependence and the chameleon effect.<\/p>\n

**Could you elaborate on that a little more?**\u00a0<\/em>
\nFor sure! The chameleon effect typically refers to the unconscious mimicry of non-verbal behaviour, such as gestures and mannerisms. We like people mimicking us, so depending on the interdependence between the two individuals the amount of mimicry differs. I want to show that the chameleon effect occurs verbally in these situations as well.<\/p>\n

**How\u2019s this week going? Anything exciting happen?**<\/em>
\nI started a club in winter 2018 to raise awareness for Multiple Sclerosis. This week I have been really busy collecting raffle prizes for a pub crawl we are organizing on November 9th. We are raising money to fund the educational presentations we put on at schools around Edmonton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yekta did this model’s hair, makeup and decorations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another one of Yekta’s makeup clients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Yekta drew this when she was 14, inspired by a photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is chalk on black cardboard; Yekta did this when she was 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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Yekta’s painting translates to “Tired of these beasts and brutes, I seek a true human.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Yekta painted this in 2018, inspired by Rumi’s poem. It translates to ” without the presence of the moon, say nothing.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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