Alison Tuck

Alison is a sixth-year graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at Washington University in St. Louis. She is interested in the intersection between clinical and social sciences and in how these two domains interact to influence mood and emotion regulation, with a particular focus on Major Depression and anxiety disorders. Some of her specific interests include the influence of social media on emotion and mental health and the role of interpersonal emotion regulation in the course and etiology of mood disorders. Alison graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Binghamton University in 2016. She spent one year working as a research assistant at Yale University followed by two years working as a project coordinator at UC Berkeley before joining Dr. Thompson’s lab at WashU. Alison will be completing her pre-doctoral clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School during the 2025-26 academic year.