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.