Ariana Davis is a senior Psychology major with a Spanish minor. Throughout the last two years, she has worked in the Child Health and Behavior Lab as a research assistant. Under the guidance of Dr. Deborah Drabick, Ariana administers questionnaires and IQ assessments to participants of the Coping Power program and helps facilitate Coping Power sessions. The Coping Power program evaluates potential treatment moderators of the child Coping Power intervention among youth with conduct problems. Ariana is using data from this study to complete her Honors thesis on generalized anxiety, conduct disorder, and callous unemotional traits in children. In Fall 2019, Ariana received the Sharon Stephens Brehm Undergraduate Psychology Scholarship from the American Psychological Foundation, which recognizes outstanding Psychology students. Prior to this scholarship, she has also received a Liberal Arts Undergraduate Research Award for her project in the Child Health and Behavior Lab. 

In 2018, Ariana also participated in the Diamond Research Scholars Program while assisting with a study in Dr. Lauren Alloy's Mood and Cognition Lab. In this study, she worked with Allison Stumper, a doctoral student, to analyze social anxiety and stress generations in adolescents. She continues to volunteer in the Mood and Cognition Lab, where she is being trained to administer behavioral assessments on executive functioning and decision making for an upcoming study in collaboration with Dr. David Smith's lab. When Ariana is not in class or lab, she is President of Psychology Majors of Color (PMC), a student organization that supports undergraduate psychology and neuroscience students of color by creating networking opportunities, and sharing information about the breadth of psychology. Upon graduation, Ariana plans to work as a lab coordinator in a psychology lab which focuses on child and adolescent internalizing disorders. She plans to use this lab experience as a stepping stone towards earning a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.