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Meet BAR Lab undergraduate member Tatum Freeman

10/18/2018

 
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The BAR Lab is made up of many talented undergraduate and graduate psychology students. Tatum Freeman has been an undergraduate lab member for since 2016. Lets meet her!

Tell us about your background in a couple of sentences.
I'm a junior psychology major in the BAR lab.  I'm originally from Clinton, MS, and I graduated from Clinton High School in 2016.  I'm currently working on a project for my Honors Thesis that examines coping styles as a potential mediator for the relationship between PTSD symptoms and alcohol outcomes.
 
Why did you join the BAR Lab?
 I joined the BAR lab because I was interested in how different psychological problems interact
with substance use.
 
What excites you about working in the BAR Lab?
 The BAR lab excites me because I know that our research has a direct impact on fellow college students.  Understanding the mechanisms behind substance use is essential to treatment, and I find it interesting that many different substance use factors (like PBS, DRSE, etc.) each have their own unique effects on specific psychological problems/demographic variables.
 
What interests you about college student substance use/misuse?
Substance use is an interesting phenomenon because it is contextualized to the individual; through our lab I've learned that one might use substances to cope, to conform to masculinity standards, to offset the stress of maladaptive perfectionism, etc.  No individual fits a cookie cutter mold, so new questions can always be asked and tested.
 
What are your future educational/career plans?
 I hope to pursue a PhD in counseling psychology.
 
What are your hobbies/things you like to do outside of the lab?
 Outside of lab, I enjoy playing video games; I own a PS4, Nintendo Switch, and gaming laptop.  I also enjoy reading Mary Oliver and visiting the Longleaf Trace (exercise trail in Hattiesburg, MS).


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