About Dr. Cochran:
Dr. Cochran is also an alumna of the University of North Alabama. She completed her undergraduate studies in the UNA Psychology Program (2012), where she worked as a student research assistant and collaborated with faculty mentors. She has always emphasized her earliest research experiences at UNA as fundamental to all of her career-building opportunities. She hopes to forward the program's longstanding tradition of mentorship and research to the next generation of students.
Dr. Cochran is an experimental social psychologist. She received her doctoral training in psychological science from Kent State University (2019), with a specialization in quantitative methods and social-health. ​
She also studied experimental psychology at Appalachian State University (2014) and credits her mentors there for the majority of her professional training in teaching and research mentorship.​​
"I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson