Stefanie is a graduate student in the clinical-developmental psychology PhD program at Pitt. Stefanie graduated from the University of Maryland in 2014 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience. Her research interests focus on how peer relationships interact with brain development in adolescence and contribute to the development and maintenance of social anxiety. She is particularly interested in the role that peer rejection and susceptibility to peer influence play in social development and psychopathology, and how social media use is changing how we view and study peer relationships in children and adolescents.
