Olivia Bell
Olivia is a first-year student in the CAT Lab with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar, and the DRR Lab with Dr. Rina Eiden. She received her B.A. (2023) in Psychology and a certification in Child Advocacy Studies from Buffalo State University. Here, she worked with Dr. Pamela Schuetze examining prenatal substance exposure and harsh parenting’s role in autonomic regulation in early childhood. Following graduation, she completed a year of post-baccalaureate work within Dr. Jamie Ostrov’s Social Development Lab at the University at Buffalo, where she led biospecimen collection and conducted interviews with preschoolers. Olivia is interested in studying the mechanisms by which prenatal and early life stressors impact physiological regulation in infancy and early childhood, and how socioenvironmental factors, such as parenting, play a role in these associations.