Yuchen is a senior at UCLA working towards her B.A. in psychology with a minor in Asian Languages. She has been involved in psychological research on visual perception and home literacy environment. As a member of the Resilience Peer Network, she has also been facilitating support groups of students with mild to moderate depression. Currently, under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Parkinson, she is conducting her departmental honors thesis research on how behavioral tendencies such as valence bias when interpreting ambiguous facial expressions may predict friendships and one’s position in the hierarchy of a social network. She also independently research on learning and memory in the Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab. In the future, she aspires to study the relationship between memories and future thinking. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and a career as a research professor.