Darya (Dasha) Zabelina is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow studying cognitive processes, affective processes, motivation, and personality aspects involved in creativity. She also has a keen interest in exploring ways of enhancing and fostering the development of creative thinking and problem-solving ability.

Darya serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Creative Behavior, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and the Journal of Happiness Studies.  She has published a number of professional articles, and presented at local and national conferences. She has won awards from APA, APS, and NIH. Darya is a ferocious reader, an enthusiastic scholar, and a committed runner.

Her PT blog is Finding Butterfly