Sydney Tucker

Sydney earned an AB in psychology with honors from Brown University in May 2023. While at Brown, she researched the affective neuroscience of decision-making, motivation, and cognitive control with the Shenhav Lab and wrote her undergraduate honors thesis on how task difficulty affects motivation to exert mental effort. She previously worked as a clinical research assistant in the Pediatric Mood, Imaging, and Neurodevelopment (PediMIND) Program at McLean Hospital. There, she examined the behavioral and neural mechanisms of irritability, suicide, and self-harm in youth. Currently, Sydney is a research assistant in the Mental Health Research Program at Franciscan Children's Hospital. She works on multiple joint Nock Lab and Franciscan Children's projects, all of which focus on understanding and preventing suicide in adolescents. Sydney plans to pursue a PhD in clinical child and adolescent psychology, and she is interested in studying how individual differences in development affect risk for the onset of psychopathology in adolescence. In her free time, Sydney enjoys swimming, taking care of her houseplants, and petting as many dogs as possible.