Partnerships for International
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Partnerships for International
Research and Education

Mavel Pineda Velasquez

Mavel Pineda Velasquez
Undergraduate student: Psychology
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Biography:

I am a junior at Penn State studying psychology. I am originally from Honduras, but I moved to the United States when I was 14 and therefore finished high school here. I am a native Spanish speaker so carrying out a project related through other languages other than my own excites me.

The PIRE project I will be working on in Nijmegen, Netherlands is a further investigation into the past PIRE project from the summer of 2023 by Adriana Miller and Gabby Stokes. This research is based on Dutch-English bilinguals and how they identify emotions through pseudo-sentences in Dutch, English, and two foreign languages Arabic and Hindi through white noise and quiet conditions.