Dr. Starlette M. Sinclair, Ph.D.

Starlette “Star” Sinclair earned her PhD in Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech), specializing in Cognitive Psychology and Aging. She is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at Florida Gulf Coast University where she teaches undergraduate courses in research and statistics, biological psychology, and sensation and perception. Dr. Sinclair has an active lab where she mentors students through a range of research projects on topics such as mental health perceptions, impostor phenomenon, yoga, disordered eating, conspiracy mindset, memory beliefs, and metacognition. Dr. Sinclair is co-advisor for FGCU’s Millennium Fellowship program (a social impact leadership development program partnership between the Millennium Campus Network and the United Nations Academic Impact division), an Honors Faculty Fellow, and an FGCU Student Success Council member. She conducts interdisciplinary research on non-cognitive predictors of student success. She has taught in higher education for over a decade and is a former Assistant Program Director of Psychology at South University’s campus in Savannah, GA.