Julia Moses

Developmental Psychology PhD student in NYC interested in infant social and cognitive development.

Julia graduated from New York University with a Bachelors of Science in Applied Psychology in May 2019. After taking a class on Behavioral Neuroscience, she realized that she was very interested in learning about how brain chemistry affects behavior and vice versa. She began working at Infant Studies of Language and Neurocognitive Development (ISLAND) lab under Dr. Natalie Brito during her senior year at NYU and knew she wanted to pursue the field of neuropsychology further. After graduation, she moved on to the Holmes Lab at Yale University, a clinicial neuroscience lab, where she worked on an R01 funded project on the pyschiatric connectome of mental illness with Dr. Avram Holmes. She is about to begin her first year of a developmental psychology PhD program at the CUNY Graduate Center under Dr. Jennifer Wagner.

Publications

Moses, J.M. (2015) “Pavlovian Conditioning Graphic.” Barron’s Review Book for Advanced Placement Psychology: pp. 122.
Moses, J.M. (2018) “Recommendations for Gender Expression in Nick Jr. Television Programs.” NYU Psi Chi Journal of Psychology Research. Vol. 3: pp. 37-41.
Moses, J.M. (2019) “Effect of Hours Spent on Social Media on Anxiety Levels in Middle School-Aged Children.” NYU Psi Chi Journal of Psychology Research. Vol. 4: pp. 37-42.

Presentations

Moses, J., Kozak, K., & Brito, N. (2018). “Potential Links Between Maternal Anxiety and Rate of Blinks in Three-Month- Old Infants”. Oral presentation given at the Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research, Fordham University, New York, NY.
Moses, J., Kozak, K., & Brito, N. (2019). “Potential Links Between Maternal Anxiety and Rate of Blinks in Three-Month- Old Infants”. Poster presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Times Square Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY.
Moses, J., Kozak, K., & Brito, N. (2019). “Potential Links Between Maternal Anxiety and Rate of Blinks in Three-Month- Old Infants”. Poster presentation at the Hunter Psych Collective Conference, Hunter College, New York, NY.
Moses, J. (2020). “Examining Relations between Infant Gender Differences in Maternal Soothing Behaviors”. Poster presentation at the 32nd Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Chicago, IL. (In-person conference cancelled on March 17, 2020 due to COVID-19)