Sydney Kong

Sydney Kong
  • Graduate Student

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Education —

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

Research —

Advisor: Tera Fazzino, PhD
Lab: Health Behavior and Technology Lab

Sydney Kong is currently a second-year graduate student in KU’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program. Sydney previously conducted independent research examining weight stigma resilience and treatment outcomes for binge eating disorder. Her research interests include understanding palatable eating motives and 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)