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Delaney Casey
(he/they)
Former Graduate Student & Lab Manager
Hey! I graduated with master's student in Social, Personality, and Affective Science at SFSU in 2022. My research interests focused on sexuality and measurement. My thesis work focused on developing self-report measures that are higher-fidelity to the original research that developed the Kinsey Scale.
Kara Eytcheson
(she/her)
Former Graduate Student & Lab Manager
Hello, my name is Kara Eytcheson and I graduated from in the Social, Personality, and Affective Science program at San Francisco State University in 2023. I received my BA in Psychology from CSU Channel Islands. My thesis research originally examined prejudice; however, it became a thesis in identifying low-quality responses on Amazon Mechnical Turk. In my spare time, you can usually catch me at an Oakland A’s game with my husband and our two little boys.
Maddie Striegel
(they/she)
Graduate Student
My name is Maddie Striegel and I am currently completing my master's thesis in Social, Personality, and Affective Science Psychology. I received my B.A. in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz. My thesis research focuses on quantitatively measuring experiences of nobinary core identity genderfludity. Outside of the lab my interests include crochet, going to shows, and spending many hours in sunny parks.
Aspensong Nevarez
(ze/zir; he/him; they/them)
Undergraduate
Research Assistant
I’m an undergraduate psychology major in my senior year at SFSU, living on unceded Lisjan (said: lih-SHAWN) Ohlone lands. My pronouns are ze/zir, he/him, and they/them, in rotation, and I’m an Indigenous, Chicane, W. Irish Turtle-Islander who is Two-Spirit and genderfluid. My research interests lie in the experiences of individuals with multiple and intersecting marginalized identities, with emphasis on instances of discrimination and prejudice amongst Two-Spirit/transgender/non-binary Indigenous people. I am also a graduate of the Musician’s Institute film production program in Los Angeles, CA. I believe in the power of research justice, community care, mutual aid, and Indigenous thrivance. I also enjoy fan-fiction, queer tango, cooking, printmaking, and writing poetry.
Cheng Yu, M.A.
(he/him)
Former Graduate Student & Former Lab Manager
I graduated with my master's of arts in Social, Personality, and Affective Science in SFSU in 2020. I am now a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas, San Antonio. My research interests are Nonverbal Behaviors and Intersectionality. I like playing volleyball, hiking, and traveling.
Annette Loynaz, M.A. (she/her)
Former Graduate Student & Former Lab Manager
Hi! My name is Annette C. Loynaz. I graduated from San Francisco State University with a Master of Arts degree in Social, Personality, and Affective Science Psychology in 2021. My research interests are human sexuality, kinks, and gender.
Reza Deiss Ghafur, M.A. (he/him)
Lecturer
Hello! I am currently a full-time lecturer at San Francisco State University, and graduate of the Social, Affective and Personality M.A. program there in 2018. My current research interests include examining the relationship between competition and prejudice and how this relationship is moderated by perceptions of scarcity. I am also interested in statistics and simulations. Finally, I love R!







