Colette Delawalla (she/her) earned her master’s degrees in Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology at Ball State University in July 2022. While at Ball State, she was a graduate research assistant in the Personality and Psychopathology (P2) Lab and completed her thesis, Positive and Negative Urgency: To Lump or to Split? An Investigation into Affect-Specific Impulsive Behavior, under Dr. Lee’s supervision. Colette and Dr. Lee also collaborated on several projects examining the conceptualization and assessment of impulsivity and related phenomena. This work included a paper published in Psychological Assessment on the applied measurement of components of Finn’s Cognitive-Motivational Model of problematic alcohol use. After graduating, Colette joined the Clinical Science PhD program at Emory University, where she studies compulsive alcohol use under the mentorship of Dr. Rohan Palmer. She is also the founder and CEO of Stand Up for Science and a mom.
