Calista Leung

Calista was the lab manager for the Emotion & Self Lab from 2018-2023, and a research assistant under Zak Witkower from 2017-2023. She completed her BA in Psychology at UBC, and is now in the process of completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University. Calista’s research focuses on facial emotion recognition ability and decision making styles in populations with depression, an idea that sparked from winning a Dragon’s Den research competition in the Emotion & Self Lab. At her time with the E&S Lab, she particularly enjoyed interviewing, mentoring, and interacting with research assistants and graduate students. She is excited to continue contributing to depression literature from a social psychology lens inspired from her research at the E&S Lab, and is excited to specialize in treating patients with depression in a clinical setting. In her spare time, you will find her trying to develop her Adobe Suite skills, alongside consuming a constant flow of milk tea.