Grace Chen

Biography

Grace is a graduate student in the Human Development and Family Studies doctoral program, working primarily with Dr. Zita Oravecz. Her research interests focus broadly on understanding and modeling emotional processes, including how people experience and regulate their emotions in everyday life, as well as the developmental processes that shape them.

Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Economics from Colgate University. Before joining Penn State, she worked as the lab manager at the Boundaries of Anxiety and Depression Lab in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania.