I am a first-generation college student that began my educational journey at American River College in Sacramento before graduating from University of California, Davis in 2022 with a B.A in Psychology and Cognitive Science and minor in Education. My research investigates the reciprocal dynamic between cognitive and physiological self-regulatory processes in early childhood. I am particularly interested in how contextual stressors impact children’s physiological functioning in ways that undermine their capacity, or resilience, for optimal executive functioning, in consideration of situation-specific relations and parent-child relationships. Better understanding how dynamic processes unfold across multiple systems and levels of children's development, while acknowledging the salience of children’s proximal and distal environments, is a central component of my work.

Outside of research, I enjoy keeping my plants alive, reading novels, and trying out different crafting projects. 

Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2024-2027) 

Provost’s First Year Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2022-2023)

Publications

Choe, D. E., Olwert, M. R., & Golden, A. B. (2023). Cognitive and psychophysiological predictors of inductive and physical discipline among parents of preschool-aged children. Journal of Family Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001140

Conference Presentations

Golden, A.B., Olwert, M.R., & Choe, D.E. (2024). Preschoolers’ effortful control moderates the effects of parenting stress on parasympathetic activity [poster] Association for Psychological Science's 2024 Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. 

Golden, A. B., Olwert, M.R., & Choe, D.E. (2023). Child respiratory sinus arrhythmia as a mechanism between parenting stress and child effortful control: Does context matter? [poster] 24th Occasional Temperament Conference, Montréal, Canada.