Principal Investigator:
Dr. Amanda E. Guyer 
Chancellor’s Fellow
Professor | Dept. of Human Ecology
Chair | Human Development Graduate Group
Associate Director | Center for Mind & Brain
Education: PhD (Yale University), BA (Skidmore College)
267 Cousteau Pl., Room 196, Davis, California 95618
aeguyer@ucdavis.edu
530-297-4445
Human Development Profile
Guyer CV
Postdoctoral Scholar
Myles N Arrington
Postdoctoral Scholar
TEEN Lab (Guyer)
Education: Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), B.S. (University of Maryland)
mnarrington@ucdavis.edu
I joined the TEEN Lab as a postdoc at the Center for Mind and Brain in September 2024. Prior to coming to Davis, I was a graduate student at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in the developmental psychology Ph.D. program. At PSU, I was mentored by Dr. Suzy Scherf and Dr. Dawn Witherspoon. I attended undergrad at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.S. degree in psychology and a minor in neuroscience. I also was a summer intern at the University of Virginia’s School of Education in 2018. My research interests intersect around social health, internalizing symptoms, social information processing, and adolescent development. In particular, I hope to understand how adolescents’ social relationships help protect them from high levels of symptoms, and how social information processing is a tool that aids in this process. In my free time, I enjoy playing and watching basketball, hanging with friends and family, playing video games, and being active outdoors.
Yiming Qian
Postdoctoral Scholar
TEEN Lab (Guyer)
Education: Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University), M.S.Ed (Indiana University Bloomington), B.S. (Fudan University)
ymqian@ucdavis.edu
I received dual bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Accounting from Fudan University, an M.S.Ed. in Educational Psychology from Indiana University Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. I am currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Davis, working with Dr. Amanda E. Guyer.
My research centers on developmental processes, with a particular focus on visual and neural development. I am also interested in sex differences, brain–behavior associations, atypical vision in mental disorders, and the sociocognitive outcomes of early life stress. My current project investigates how sex and pubertal development influence brain maturation during adolescence.