LAMP Team

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Dr. Rachel Greenspan
Assistant Professor – Lab Director
rachel.greenspan@ucf.edu

Dr. Rachel Leigh Greenspan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Central Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Her research takes an applied, interdisciplinary, and multi-method approach to studying questions at the intersection of psychology, criminal justice, and the law. Her main research interests focus on the development and downstream consequences of memory errors, particularly in the criminal legal system. 

Undergraduate Students

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Bella Rovira
Research Assistant

Bella is a junior majoring in Psychology on the Clinical Track. Her research interests lie within the intersection of cognitive and health psychology, specifically the realm of eating behaviors and food psychology. She plans to pursue a PhD in Psychology to continue research in these areas. Currently in the LAMP Lab, Bella is translating Miranda policies from Spanish to English and noticing discrepancies in the way the warnings are said. Overall, the goal is to see how Spanish Speakers can be negatively affected due to errors in translations.

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Alicia Urpeque
Research Assistant

Alicia is a second year undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Sciences on the Neuroscience Track. Her research interests center on the neurological and behavioral effects of substance use, with a focus on how these changes impact cognition, memory, and decision-making. In the LAMP Lab, Alicia is currently examining how different types of evidence, such as eyewitness and alibi testimony, influence perceptions of guilt and confidence in decision-making. She has also contributed to the development of the lab’s website.