Freddie Corcoran

Freddie is a Psychological and Brain Sciences major, minoring in Applied Psychology at UCSB. In the future, she hopes to obtain a PhD in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on developing children. Her initial interest in research began while writing a research proposal on the differential effectiveness of mindfulness based therapy versus medication on the treatment of ADHD and anxiety. Freddie is currently incorporating her passion for clinical psychology with autobiographical memory research in the TALE Lab. She is examining whether the presence of redemptive themes in life story narratives (i.e., finding the good in life's negative events) relates to to psychological well-being, and if this link depends on whether individuals find redemption in life's events spontaneously, or only after being prompted to do so. This work is funded by an Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) grant from UCSB.

*Freddie was in the TALE lab from Winter 2019 to Spring 2020. She is first-author on a poster presentation and a manuscript in preparation for publication. She has since graduated from UCSB and will be starting a PhD program in Child Psychology at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2021.