Our Team

Dakota W. Cintron, PhD, EdM, MS, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. He received his PhD in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Research Methods, Measurement, and Evaluation, from the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He also holds an EdM in Human Development and an MS in Applied Statistics from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BS in Economics and Public Health from Rutgers University.

Dr. Cintron’s research bridges psychological science, data science, and public health to understand how human development, cognition, and well-being unfold across the lifespan. His work has been supported by national fellowships and awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Council on Measurement in Education, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Educational Testing Service.

Prior to joining CGU, Dr. Cintron held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, San Francisco and Cornell University, where he led and collaborated on projects related to affective well-being, cognitive aging, discrimination, and health policy evaluation. He is co-author of the Introduction to Modern Modeling Methods (SAGE) and serves on the editorial board of Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Cole Baisch, BA, BS, MA, earned his BA in Philosophy and BS in Cognitive Science from UC Santa Cruz, and his MA in Philosophy with a graduate certificate in Cognitive Science from CU Boulder. He is a PhD student in Positive Developmental Psychology at Claremont Graduate University. His research interests center around virtue psychology, exploring how character strengths contribute to well-being, how virtue can be measured at the individual and societal level, and how it can be cultivated in everyday life, using mixed methods to study these questions rigorously. When not thinking about virtue, he can be found lifting weights, running, practicing yoga, reading, losing himself in a role-playing game, or chasing new culinary and outdoor adventures, all in the spirit of living the good life he studies.

Contact: cole.baisch@cgu.edu | website

Jacobo Dantus, BA, earned his bachelor’s in finance with a minor in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a first-year master’s student in the Positive Developmental Psychology and Evaluation program at Claremont Graduate University. His research interests center around post-traumatic growth, resilience, and other forms of positive functioning in adversity. When not thinking about adversity, he attempts to follow a psychologically rich mindset, another one of his interests, in his constant pursuit of new adventures.

Contact: jacobo.dantus@cgu.edu