Department of Psychology

Bradley Bond, Ph.D
Bradley Bond received a BA (’04) in communication from Bradley University before completing his MA (’06) and PhD (’11) in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. Dr. Bond’s focus is on media psychology; his research examines the relationship between media exposure and sexual identity development during adolescence. He joined Dr. Sandra Calvert as her post-doctoral researcher in the Children’s Digital Media Center where he works on multiple National Science Foundation-funded projects examining the media experience during early childhood.

Anna Johnson, Ph.D.
Anna Johnson is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University. Her three-year fellowship is funded through a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on the intersection of developmental science and social policy, specifically with respect to the role that public policies can play in enhancing the development of low-income children. In particular, she studies the potential of early intervention, in the form of early childhood education and care programs, to reduce school readiness gaps between low-income children and their more advantaged peers. Her dissertation used a nationally representative dataset to examine take-up of the federal child care subsidy program and the impact of program participation on the quality of children’s early care and education experiences and their subsequent outcomes in kindergarten. Dr. Johnson’s post-doctoral research will focus on child-level vulnerabilities that may moderate the association between early intervention participation and later child outcomes. Her other research interests include child and family policy, and the contribution of social and economic inequality to disparities in child and family health and wellbeing.

Dr. Johnson recently completed her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Columbia University. While working towards her doctorate, she also earned a Master of Public Administration degree at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Xiaozhen You, Ph.D.
Xiaozhen graduated from Florida International University in 2010 with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering where she specialized in medical signal (EEG) and imaging (fMRI of language) analysis in pediatric populations with autism and epilepsy. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2005. She joined Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in July 2010. Her post-doctoral work at Georgetown involves fMRI and DTI analyses of resting state functional connectivity, executive control, attention, and emotion in pediatric developmental disorders.