People

The SAGA Lab welcomes Gatton, undergraduate, and graduate students interested in lifespan development, self and identity, goals and motivation, decision-making, and well-being across adulthood.

Current Lab Members

Kaylee Uhling

Kaylee is a high school student at the Gatton Academy, interested in interdisciplinary studies. In the SAGA Lab, she is interested in self-continuity. Outside the lab, Kaylee keeps busy with a lively crew of pets, including two dogs, a ball python, and a bearded dragon.

Rosabelle Raulerson

Rosabelle is currently a sophomore at WKU majoring in Psychology and minoring in Philosophy. She is especially interested in child psychology, development, the sense of self, and mental health.

Outside of classes, she loves to read and study languages whenever she can. She also hopes to one day move to Germany!

Rachel Thompson

Rachel is a sophomore majoring in psychology with a minor in child studies. She hopes to become a children’s therapist one day. She’s curious about every area of psychology she has studied so far and especially enjoys the hands-on side of research. In the SAGA Lab, she’s excited to gain experience with each stage of the research process.

Pouncy & Iris

Pouncy (left) and Iris (right) are the lab's unofficial co-directors of morale, each holding an honorary PhD in Making Things Difficult. Their primary contributions include emotional support, strategic keyboard-sitting, and reminding everyone that deadlines are a social construct.

Previous Work with Undergraduates

Zhong, M., Lu, Y., Taveras, J., Kumar, R., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Nov. 2026). Growing Older, Giving Differently: Age Differences in Social Discounting Across Kin and Non-Kin Relationships. Late-breaking poster accepted for the 78th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, MD.

Wang, R., Lu, Y., Guo, J., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Nov. 2026). Effects of Aging Simulation on Self-Continuity and Anxiety About Aging. Late-breaking poster accepted for the 78th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, National Harbor, MD.

Kumar, R., Lu, Y., Enna, C. Y., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Sep. 2026). Bridging past and future selves: Self-continuity and Advance Care Planning across the lifespan. Poster presentation at the 2026 annual convention of the Kentucky INBRE Conference, Louisville, KY.

Taveras, J., Zhong, M., Kumar, R., Lu, Y. & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Feb. 2026). Mapping social networks: Demographic characteristics and relationship types across social distances. Poster presentation at the 2026 annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Kumar, R., Lu, Y., Enna, C. Y., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Feb. 2026). The role of self-continuity in advance care planning in a lifespan sample. Poster presentation at the 2026 annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Yu, W., Lu, Y., & Löckenhoff, C. E. (Mar. 2025). Agreeableness is associated with increased generosity in social discounting and charitable giving. Poster presentation at the 2025 annual convention of the Eastern Psychological Association, New York, NY.

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