Silasi-Mansat recently finished her Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, College Station, and has an M.A. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her B.A. is in Law from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania). She has taught courses in introduction to psychology, developmental psychology, advanced statistics and SPSS, and theories of learning and cognition. In addition, she has specialized skills in statistics and software including SPSS, SAS, Matlab, Mplus, R and speaks six languages (Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and English).