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Texas A&M involvements 

• Motivation and Learning Lab (website)

• Graduate Assistant at Texas A&M Career Center

Previous Research Projects

Therechel, A., Bonnie H., Juárez N., Sapia, J., Du Z., Lee, H., Hernandez, P. Influence of student-instructor similarity on biomedical students' persistence and life satisfaction: The mediating role of student self-efficacy. (2023)

•  Measured self efficacy's influence on the change scores for biomedical students' persistence intention and life satisfaction using mediation analysis for poster presentation at Texas A&M's Student Research Week

Lambert, A., Shaffett, H., Sapia, J., & O’Bryant, J. The relationship between negative mental health memes and anxious-depressive mood. (2020) (Senior thesis)

• Conducted pilot study to determine humor rating of dark humor memes and surveyed larger sample to determine aspects of dark humor memes as indicators of coping, trait anxiety, and trait depression

Franco-Zamudio, J., Brown C., Thomas S., Wendel L., Sharp S., & Sapia J. "Your body is a battleground": Media analysis of #MeToo/#HeToo. (2019)

• Organized newspaper articles and used ATLAS.ti to code and analyze terminology for qualitative analysis for professor’s conference presentation at Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Annual Conference, San Diego, CA