Taylor Mosley (1st year graduate student)
Taylor Mosley is a first-year doctoral student in the clinical law concentration, working with Dr. Andrea Glenn. Taylor earned her B.A. at the University of South Florida double majoring in Psychology and Behavioral Healthcare. Her research interests include juvenile competency to stand trial, intervention fidelity and implementation in juvenile detention centers, and exploring interventions and protective factors against the school-to-prison pipeline.
Tristin Winkler (2nd year graduate student)
Tristin Winkler is a member of the Developmental Psychology program. Originally from Mount Holly, North Carolina, Tristin earned a B.A summa cum laude in Psychology from Hampden-Sydney College. His research has mainly focused on microaggressions committed against couples with intersecting minority identities. Specifically, he has conducted studies related to what factors, such as stereotypes, type of microaggressions, and the identities of the victim, influence the 3rd party acceptance of microaggressions.
Email: tlwinkler@crimson.ua.edu
Olivia Thompson (5th year graduate student)
Olivia Thompson is a clinical psychology student in the Clinical Child concentration. A native of Illinois, Olivia received my B.A. summa cum laude in Psychology and Criminology from Drury University and my M.A. in Social Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa.
Most recently, Olivia worked as a treatment provider with incarcerated individuals in the Seattle area. Her current research interests include exploring how adverse childhood experiences impact overall development and promoting resilience, trauma-informed care for juvenile delinquents, and youth violence prevention within minority communities.
Email: othompson1@crimson.ua.edu
Past Graduate Students
Lexie Harrison, Ph.D
Dr. Harrison graduated from the Developmental Psychology program in 2025 and is an Assistant Professor at Simmons University in Boston. She is originally from Hockessin, Delaware and received her B.S. in Psychology, with a minor in Child Maltreatment and Advocacy Studies, from The Pennsylvania State University. Additionally, she received post-baccalaureate research training at Yale University. Her research interests primarily focus on the developmental pathways of antisocial behaviors.
Email: apharrison@crimson.au.edu
Brandon McCormick, Ph.D
Dr. McCormick graduated from the clinical psychology program in the Psychology and Law concentration in 2024. He is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude from Penn State university with BA’s Criminology and with honors in Psychology. His research interests focus on outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury (i.e., concussions), especially in children and youth. His research included a longitudinal study of children and adolescents who experienced a mild traumatic brain injury and a animal model study examining the behavioral changes and genetic differences in vulnerability in Mangrove Rivulus fish who were given an experimentally induced mild traumatic brain injury.
Email: bfmccormick@crimson.ua.edu
Virginia Lamoureux, Ph.D
Dr. Lamoureux graduated from the Social Psychology program in 2023. They are an Alabama native and received my B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Alabama. Their research interests generally focus on psychopathy and forensic evaluation. Specifically, they are interested in gender differences in psychopathy, and adversarial allegiance affecting the use of forensic evaluation in the legal system. Their master’s thesis focused on analyzing fear in psychopathy as the separate processes of the conscious experience of fear and automatic threat response, as well as possible mediating and moderating factors in the relationship between psychopathy and fear. Their dissertation focused on lay perspectives of psychopathy.
Email: vajones3@crimson.ua.edu
Leah Efferson, Ph.D
Dr. Efferson graduated from the Developmental Science concentration in 2019. Her master’s thesis focused on psychopathic traits, vengeance, and motivations to punish in criminal scenarios. Her dissertation focused on empathy-relevant processing in psychopathic offenders.
Email: lefferson@crimson.ua.edu
Rheanna Remmel, Ph.D.
Dr. Remmel graduated from the clinical psychology program in the Psychology and Law concentration in 2019. She completed her internship and a post-doc at Western State Hospital and is currently a forensic psychologist there. Her master’s thesis explored the relationship between psychopathic traits and moral decision-making in adolescents. Her dissertation focused on social and affective functioning in incarcerated male adults with psychopathic traits.
Email: rjremmel@crimson.ua.edu
Al Johnson, Ph.D.
Dr. Johnson received her PhD in the Psychology and Law concentration in 2018, under the mentorship of Dr. Andrea Glenn. Her clinical supervisor was Dr. Jennifer Cox. She completed her internship at the Detroit VA, and completed a postdoc at the Palo Alto VA. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ball State University.
Her master’s thesis examined the relationship between a wide-range of personality traits and problematic externalizing behaviors (i.e., aggression, alcohol and drug use, academic misconduct, risky driving, etc.) among college students. Her dissertation focused on extending findings from the adult research literature on the relationship between hormones (i.e., cortisol and testosterone) and psychopathy (i.e., aggression and callous-unemotional traits) downward to adolescents.
Email: akjohnson6@crimson.ua.edu.