Chris Barry
chris.barry@wsu.edu
(509) 335-4906
Dr. Barry is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at WSU. Prior to joining the faculty at WSU in August 2015, he served as a faculty member for 11 years at The University of Southern Mississippi. He completed his B.S. in psychology at Virginia Tech, his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at The University of Alabama, his predoctoral internship at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, and a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Scott & White Clinic/Texas A&M School of Medicine.
His overall research interests are in self-perception (e.g., narcissism, self-esteem) and personality (e.g., callous-unemotional traits) during childhood and adolescence relate to various indices of behavioral, emotional, and social functioning. Recent research has attempted to address the self-perception correlates of social media behavior and engagement in adolescents and young adults.
Mackenzie (Mac) Murphy
mac.murphy@wsu.edu
Mac Murphy is a sixth-year student in Dr. Chris Barry’s lab and received her B.A. in Engineering Sciences at Dartmouth College in 2015 with a concentration in applied math. After graduation, she worked in macroeconomic research and talent and recruiting strategy at Bridgewater Associates and as a field instructor for New Vision Wilderness Therapy before deciding to return to graduate school in psychology. Her primary research interests include the impacts of childhood trauma, delinquency and externalizing traits in adolescents, advanced statistics and quantitative modeling, and using virtual reality to measure risk-taking. In her clinical work, Mac is interested primarily in health psychology and assessment, especially in forensic contexts.
Alex Yoshizumi
alex.anderson@wsu.edu
Alex Yoshizumi is a fifth-year student in Dr. Barry’s lab. They completed a B.S. in psychology at Washington State University in 2017 and received their M.A. in counseling psychology from the University of Denver in 2019. Alex is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado, and prior to returning to WSU they worked as a school-based therapist at a diverse, suburban high school. Their research is focused the impacts of positive and negative digital media experiences on mental health and well-being for LGBTQ+ youth, risk and protective factors in this association, and the use of intensive longitudinal methods. Alex enjoys clinical work with children, adolescents, families, and young adults experiencing a variety of presenting concerns as well as conducting neuropsychological assessments with youth.
Shir Levy
Shir.levy@wsu.edu
Shir Levy is a fourth-year student in Dr. Chris Barry’s lab. She completed her B.S. in psychology at Washington State University in 2022. Shir is a former women’s basketball athlete at WSU, and her primary research interests include the relation between dark personality traits (i.e., psychopathy and narcissisms) and aggression within competitive environments, particularly within competitive sports teams.
Talia (Talz) Leman
talia.leman@wsu.edu
Talz Leman is a third-year student in Dr. Chris Barry’s lab. She completed her B.A. in psychology at Stanford University in 2018. After graduation, she was a research coordinator at the University of California Los Angeles Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program and then a research assistant at the University of Iowa ADHD and Development Lab. Her primary research interests are in youth externalizing behaviors and social systems.
Liam Gorsuch
liam.gorsuch@wsu.edu
Liam Gorsuch is a second-year student in Dr. Chris Barry’s lab. He completed his B.A. Honours degree in Psychology at the University of British Columbia in 2024. Before starting graduate school, he worked as a research coordinator at the BC Forensic Psychiatric Hospital and Simon Fraser University, where he contributed to projects on forensic mental health services, concurrent disorders, and therapeutic programming in correctional contexts. His primary research interests include dark personality traits and their role in youth externalizing behaviors, readiness to change, and improving services within forensic and correctional settings.
Yejin Kim
yejin.kim@wsu.edu
Yejin Kim is a first-year student in Dr. Chris Barry’s lab. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Sookmyung Women’s University and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Sungkyunkwan University, both in South Korea. Before joining the lab, she worked as a researcher at Samsung Medical Center and Gangnam Severance Hospital, where she was involved in clinical research on mental health. Her primary research interests include social media use, emotion regulation, self-perception, and their associations with psychological and behavioral outcomes, particularly among adolescents and young adults.