Sydney Kong


Sydney Kong
  • Graduate Student
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Biography

Sydney Kong is currently a first-year graduate student in KU’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program. Sydney graduated in 2 years from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology Summa Cum Laude and Departmental Honors. During her time at UCLA, Sydney spent a year with Janet Tomiyama, Ph.D., in the DiSH Lab conducting independent research for her senior honors thesis. Her research focused on characterizing weight stigma resilience and understanding how weight stigma manifests in everyday life. After graduating, she worked as a research coordinator at Drexel University, where she examined treatment outcomes for binge eating disorder. 

Education

B.A. in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2022

Research

Advisor: Tera Fazzino, PhD

Lab: Health Behavior and Technology Lab

Her research interests include understanding the underlying reinforcement processes of hyperpalatable foods that contribute to eating disorders. She is also interested in the overlap between eating pathology and other reward-seeking behaviors.

Awards & Honors

Society of Personality and Social Psychology Undergraduate Student Poster Award Finalist (1 of 9 finalists) (2023)

UCLA Psychology Departmental Honors (Selected as 1 of 27 students) (2022)

Summa Cum Laude (2022)

Dean’s Honors List, College of Letters and Science (Fall 2020-Spring 2022)