Marie-Christine André worked as a research assistant on the Social Perception Research Project. Primarily, she was interested in investigating the social and emotional abilities of individuals with Williams Syndrome and with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her main responsibilities involved corresponding with families and recruiting participants with Williams Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders, as well as typically developping children and adolescents. Additionally, Christine was largely involved in administering standardized cognitive assessments as well as experiments with eye-tracking and psychophysiological measures.

Her undergraduate studies at Williams College focused on cognitive and clinical neuroscience and her honors thesis dealt with cognitive abilities of patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Having worked closely with different clinical populations, Christine has recently left us to pursue graduate studies in Clinical Psychology where she hopes to further investigate the relationship between emotion regulation and psychopathology.