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Behavioral and Emotion Research Consultant | Psychophysiologist

Profile Summary

I am a Cognitive Neuroscience and Biopsychology Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech with extensive experience in behavioral science, psychophysiology, and emotion research. My academic and professional background spans emotion measurement, autonomic nervous system physiology, experimental psychology, rat and mouse research, market research, human factors research, behavioral health, and advanced statistical analysis using SPSS and Python. I specialize in bridging theoretical emotion models with practical experimental design — helping labs and companies collect data and truly understand it.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Electrophysiology
• ★ Personality Analysis
• ★ Python
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Neurophysiology
• ☆ Behavioral Neuroscience
• ☆ Cognitive Neuroscience
• ☆ Neuroanatomy
• ☆ Neuropsychology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Neural Networks
• ☆ Pattern Recognition
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence
• ☆ Deep Learning
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Social Statistics
• ☆ Meta-Analysis
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Statistical Computing
• ☆ Mathematical Statistics
• ☆ Information Retrieval
• ☆ Human Behavior & Psychology
• ☆ Cognitive Science
• ☆ Health Psychology
• ☆ Military Psychology
• ☆ Applied Psychology
• ☆ Learning & Memory
• ☆ Analytical Psychology
• ☆ Human-Computer Interactions (HCI)
• ☆ Design Thinking
• ☆ Social Psychology
• ☆ Psychology of Creativity
• ☆ Positive Psychology
• ☆ Parapsychology
• ☆ SPSS
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ Tensorflow
• ☆ R
• ☆ Scikit-learn

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Clinical Trial Documentation, Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Virginia Tech

August 2023 - Present

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

August 2022 - August 2033

Research Assistant

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

May 2024 - August 2024

Paraprofessional

New River Valley Community Services

July 2022 - July 2023

Education

M.S./Ph.D. (Psychology)

Virginia Tech

August 2023 - Present

Bachelors of Science (Psychology)

Radford University

August 2020 - August 2022

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Shane R. McClafferty, Xiaona Wang, Claudia Paniagua-Ugarte, Zoe M. Hannabass, Pamela A. Jackson, Dayna M. Hayes (2024). Comparing the effects of infant maternal and sibling separation on adolescent behavior in rats (Rattus norvegicus) . PLOS ONE.