Amanda Bernal
Graduate Student, Social and Personality Psychology
Faculty Advisor: Matthias Mehl
Research Interests:
- Different forms of close relationships (romantic, familial, abstract, parasocial)
- Social connection, and how it relates to health
- Language analysis
Master's Project:
- Initial Findings from a Comprehensive Validation of a Foreground Speech Detection Algorithm for Everyday Conversation Detection (2025)
Courses Taught:
Grader for:
- PSY 352 - Personality (2024)
- PSY 480 - Forensic Psychology (2024)
*Year listed indicates when this individual last worked in the specified course.
Awards and Recognitions:
- Psychology Master's Research Forum presentation winner (2025)
- Psychology Graduate Student Data Blitz presentation winner: 1st- and 2nd-Year category (2023)
Updated: 04/28/25
Degrees
- B.A. Psychology, Austin College (2019)
- M.S. Psychological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (2021)