Title: Ph.D. student
Groups: Current PHD and MA Students
Darian Stapleton is a fourth-year PhD student in Dr. Goldstein’s lab. She graduated from Washington & Jefferson College where she majored in Psychology and Studio Art with a minor in Art History. She previously interned in the Cognition, Affect & Temperament Lab at Penn State University working on projects dealing with behavioral inhibition. Her current research interests include looking at video games and why/how children engage with them, and how video game play relates to creativity and other outcomes. Her career goals are to work with gaming companies, digital media, or child focused organizations doing data analysis to inform policies about digital media and game design decisions. She is currently working on developing a machine learning model that can predict the creativity ratings of images from the video game Pokémon Snap.