Emily Najemy

Bachelor's

Psychology

Boston College Arts and Mind Lab

Research Assistant

• Collaborated with a team of professors, peers, and Ph.D. students on a study examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and children’s performance on executive control tasks; contributor to the study’s publication. • Independently conducted research on the effects of illustration aesthetics in picture books on reading comprehension. • Along with critical thinking, responsibilities included literature review, qualitative and quantitative video coding, outreach to organizations, data collection with human participants, and data organization.