Hello! My name is Grace Hart (she/her) and I am a Postgraduate Associate in Yale University’s Psychology Department. I am currently the lab manager of Dr. Shirley Wang’s Computational Clinical Science Lab, where we study self-injurious thoughts and behaviors and eating disorder behaviors using ecological momentary assessment and computational modeling.

In the future, I hope to pursue a PhD in clinical psychology, during which I would like to use computational modeling and intensive longitudinal methods to improve our understanding of the relationship between suicide, death beliefs/attitudes, and meaning in life. I am also interested in metascience, espeically theory-building and measurement. In my free time, I enjoy reading and practicing yoga.

Research Interests

Suicide, death attitudes, existential psychology, theory formalization, mathematical and computational modeling, ecological momentary assessment, scalable interventions, metascience

Education

Boston College, 2021-2023

Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude Psychology Major: Honors Program, Clinical Concentration Philosophy Minor

Randolph College, 2019-2020

Selected Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2024

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship - selected Fellow

Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Netherlands - selected Scholar

2023

International Network on Personal Meaning Student Membership Award - First Place

Berlin Institute of Health Metascience Summer School Travel Award

Boston College Conference Travel Grant

Center for Open Science Metascience Conference Travel Award

Boston College Advanced Study Grant

2022

Scott O. Lilienfeld Memorial Prize for Scientific Thinking in Clinical Psychology

Sentio University “Therapist Throwdown”- Third Place

Boston College Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2021

Boston College Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Research Experience

Yale University: Computational Clinical Science Lab

Postgraduate Associate/Lab Manager (July 2024-present)

Yale School of Medicine: Belief, Learning, and Memory Lab

Research Assistant (June 2023-June 2024)

McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School: Cognition, Affect, Research, and Education Lab

Research Assistant (January 2022-May 2024)

Boston College: Cooperation Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant (July 2020-August 2022)

Randolph College: Embodied Cognition Lab

Undergraduate Research Assistant (October 2019-May 2020)