People.

The Web Lab is typically comprised of principal investigator Gregory D. Webster, his Ph.D. students, and about 10–20 undergraduate research assistants.

Our Team

Gregory D. Webster, Ph.D.
Web Lab Principal Investigator
R. David Thomas Endowed Professor of Psychology; Director, Social Psychology Program

Greg's primary research interests include (a) personality traits and perception (Big Five, Dark Triad, aggression), (b) romantic and close relationships, (c) novel applications of cutting-edge data collection and analysis, including measurement models, meta-analysis, and social network analysis. Greg currently serves as an editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. CV OSF Google Scholar

Zhongchi Li
Graduate Student

Zhongchi received his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and his B.Eng. in Information Engineering at Chien-Shiung Wu Honored College of Southeast University (Nanjing, China). He studies human-centered artificial intelligence and consumer psychology. He currently seeks to understand psychological factors and human-like decision making of large language models, and evaluate them from a consumer-machine interaction and collaboration perspective. He is also interested in developing and applying novel statistical and machine learning methods in psychology and marketing research. Google Scholar

Soo Yeon Park
First-Year Graduate Student

Soo Yeon Park received a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Cultural and Social Psychology from Korea University and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree from the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign. She possesses a wide-ranging interest in the field of romantic and sexual relationships, with a particular emphasis on the influence of both absolute and subjective socioeconomic status on the trajectory of relationships (i.e., attraction, short-term and long-term relationships). Her current research is centered on exploring people's lay beliefs regarding couples with similar or dissimilar socioeconomic statuses. Google Scholar

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Eva García Ferrés
Graduate Student

Eva is a 4th year graduate student and PhD Candidate. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Ithaca College, and her first master’s degree in psychology from New York University. She also received a second master’s degree in psychology at University of Florida. She is interested in researching how people think and feel about socio-political systems, what structural and individual factors demotivate action, and how people think of alternatives to these systems. CV Google Scholar

Ashley Krause
Graduate Student

Ashley Krause is a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida. She received her M.S. in Psychology at the University of Florida and her B.A. in Psychology at Francis Marion University. She is a socioecological psychologist interested in understanding the conditions under which people’s interactions with places foster well-being. Specifically, she focuses on the interplay between place and personal coherence, examining how the alignment between a person’s sense of self and their environment influences positive psychological outcomes such as meaning in life. Google Scholar

Amy Pezoldt
Graduate Student

​Amy is a graduate student, and the current Web Lab manager, working towards her M.S. in Social Psychology at the University of Florida (UF). She received her B.S. in Psychology from UF in 2023. Her research focuses on popular media and close relationships. She is currently studying why and how people develop non-amicable parasocial relationships (NPSRs) with celebrities, fictional characters, and other media figures/entities. In her free time, she likes to play basketball 🏀, and paint fish 🐟. CV Google Scholar

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Rui Jin (Cindy)
Graduate Student

Cindy earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Hong Kong before joining the gator nation. Her research interests include residential mobility, the moving experience, and how these transitions influence people’s attitudes and behaviors. She is also interested in how migrants contribute to shaping regional norms and culture through interactive processes. Google Scholar

Ileri Akinnola
Graduate Student

Ileri is a third-year graduate student in Social Psychology at the University of Florida (UF). He received his B.A. in Psychology from UMBC in 2022. His research is on identity, with a focus on how people manage conflicting identities. In his free time, he likes to play videogames, cook, and go to the gym. CV Google Scholar

Abhay Alaukik
Graduate Student

Abhay is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Social Psychology area being co-mentored by Dr. Colin Smith and Dr. Peter Kvam. He received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Kansas before starting his PhD journey in the Cognition and Decision Modeling Lab. He is broadly interested in political/moral psychology, statistical modeling, and quantitative methods. He is exploring how information gets polarized as a function of the kind of task people are assigned (e.g.,, choice vs. estimation tasks) using simulations, agent-based modeling and empirical studies. CV Google Scholar

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Anaïs Ortiz
Graduate Student

Anaïs studies environmental psychology,  psychological well-being, and transformative experiences and emotions (e.g. awe). She's been a visiting Researcher at the University of Algarve in Portugal. CV Google Scholar