Shivali Sarawgi
Education and Training
Shivali will receive her BA in Psychology, Cognitive Studies, and Child Development in May 2011.
Professional Affiliations and Memberships
Student affiliate of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
Biographical Sketch
Before coming to EARL Shivali interned in a pulmonary biology lab at Cincinnati Children's Hospital beginning the summer of 2006 and continued that internship through the summers of 2007 and 2008. Shivali has been with EARL since the fall of 2008, and since then has contributed to data entry, protocol development, as well as subject recruitment and participation. As a rising senior she will be completing her honors research project with the goal of defending her honor's thesis in the Spring of 2011. Last summer (2009) she interned at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital on the acute care adolescent ward, and this summer (2010) Shivali remained at EARL to complete a VUSRP internship. Her primary work in EARL, thus far, has been in examining attentional biases as they relate to anxiety disorders, specifically contamination-related OCD, as well as disgust conditioning and extinction.
Outside of EARL, Shivali spends much of her spare time helping and mentoring first-year students as resident adviser at Vanderbilt's new Commons initiative (2008-present).
Publications
Armstrong, T., Olatunji, B. O., Sarawgi, S., & Simmons, C. (2010). Orienting and maintenance of gaze in contamination-based OCD: Biases for disgust and fear cues. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48, 402-408.
Armstrong, T., Sarawgi, S, & Olatunji, B. O. Behavioral and affective correlates of attentional bias in contamination fear. Manuscript in preparation.
Presentations
Sarawgi, S., & Olatunji, B. O. (August 2010). Preventing the return of disgust in humans: A learning based approach. Poster presented at the Vanderbilt University Summer Research Program 2010 poster session, Nashville, TN.
Sarawgi, S., Cox, K. A., Armstrong, T., & Olatunji, B. O. (November 2009). Individual differences in trait anxiety and biases in eye movements to negative emotional faces. Poster accepted for presentation at the 55th annual convention of the Tennessee Psychological Association, Nashville, TN.
Armstrong, T., Simmons, C., Sarawgi, S., & Olatunji, B. O. (March 2009). Selective Attention in Contamination-Based OCD: Eye Tracking of Affective Content and Time Course. Poster accepted for presentation at the 43nd annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY.
This page was last updated on September 10, 2010
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