Hannah Adams

Graduate Research Assistant

Emotion Regulation, camouflaging, gender differences, and late diagnosis in autism

Hannah Adams is a fifth year Applied developmental psychology PhD student under the mentorship of Dr. Allison Jack. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of Missouri Kansas City. After graduation Hannah started a research assistantship at the Kansas University Medical Center in the developmental pediatrics department. Since starting at GMU she has worked on many research projects as a graduate research assistant including Emotion Processing, Gender Identity, and Differential Risk for Anxiety and Depression in Autistic Adults, NIH funded Autism Center of Excellence: Neurodevelopmental Biomarkers of Late Diagnosis in Autism, and Gender and Autistic Traits study of which she is also the undergraduate research coordinator. She received an NSF research traineeship in 2023 where she worked on interdisciplinary community engaged participatory research and trained in data science and entrepreneurship. She has also instructed courses at GMU including Behavior Disorders of Childhood, Brain and Behavior, Lifespan Development, and Social psychology. In her free time Hannah likes to sew, read, hang out with her friends, and play with her corgi, Gus.

Education

Hannah graduated Cum Laude from the University of Missouri Kansas City in 2019. After which, she received her M.A. in psychology from George Mason University where has gone on to finish her PhD.