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Elyssa’s research focuses on adult development, specifically what impact age has on the changing workforce. |
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Eliza's primary area of research focuses on the dynamics of affective learning. Eliza is interested in unearthing the mechanisms by which individuals’ affective lives differ. In particular, she is interested in how we learn about the affective value of stimuli in our environments, how individuals systematically differ in this learning, and how such learning relates to life-long affective and emotional reactivity. |
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Lauren will focus her Masters work on individual differences in emotional attribution. |
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Kate is interested in emotional language comprehension in children with autism and right hemisphere damaged (RHD) stroke patients. Particular attention is paid to prosody, or the melody of speech, via pitch. A second line of research looks at metaphor training in RHD patients. |
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Veronica is interested in understanding the way the brain processes reward-specific information. Her research focuses on examining the role of dopamine activity in the performance of previously acquired reward-directed behavioral responses as well as neuronal activity of nucleus accumbens cells during behavioral responses to reward-predictive environmental cues. |
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Jennifer is interested in parent-child attachment relationships and children's emotional and social development. |
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Fred is interested in studying the social, cognitive, and biological correlates of emotion regulation. |
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Maria's current research focuses on language and the construction of emotional percepts. |
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Thalia’s research interests are in two main areas: 1) cognitive development, particularly the study of children’s theory of mind, imagination, and pretense as these capacities relate to fiction, narrative, and theatre (both viewing theatre, and acting in theatre); and 2) the study of emotion regulation in actors as a way of understanding the underpinnings of exceptional ability in emotion regulation. In addition, she also does some work on creative organizational response in disaster situations. |
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Joy's research focuses on examining the social functions of emotions, and how context, goals, and personality traits influence emotional preference. |
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Kate’s research focuses on children’s understanding of different aspects of emotion. She studies children’s attributions of emotion to facial expressions, stories of the causes and behavioral consequences of emotion, and full-body emotional displays to determine which one better taps children’s emotion concepts, and how these concepts change through the preschool years and beyond. |
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Mary’s main research interest focuses on the cultural component of emotion development and how the social environment—including the presence or absence of war and conflict—affects children’s perception of emotion and the breadth of their emotion categories. |
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Kristen's research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of emotion experience. In particular, this work seeks to understand how people experience discrete emotion states (such as fear, anger, joy, etc.), and how they perceive such discrete emotion states in other people. Implicit in this work is the idea that the language a person speaks (and the emotion concepts it encodes) shapes the emotions that are experienced. |
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Katherine's primary area of research focuses on the understanding the role of emotional processing in memory, and how emotional processing changes as adults age. By combining behavioral testing and functional neuroimaging, Katherine's research examines both the cognitive (thought-level) and neural (brain-level) processes that guide young and older adult’s attention toward, and memory for, emotional information. |
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I am interested in understanding what roles dopamine plays in learning and motivation, and how these two elements relate. During learning, dopamine appears to strengthen cortical inputs to the striatum according to their relevance to the organism. If so, is dopamine still necessary once a behavior has become a habit? What is dopamine’s contribution to motivation? How does dopamine mediate goal-directed behavior, and the ability to make self-initiated, spontaneous choices according to what is important to the organism? |
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My interests focus on children's development of emotion concepts, the manner in which these change across childhood, and how children interpret emotional displays (facial expressions, body language etc.). I am also interested in understanding how the acquisition of theory of mind relates to the understanding of emotion in others. |
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Tara studies conceptual systems of emotion knowledge. In particular, she seeks to understand how we structure and organize our concepts of emotion categories, as well as individual variation in the content and granularity of this knowledge. |
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Her current research includes a collaborative evaluation project conducted with Moroccan activists exploring the effectiveness of a women’s leadership program, Leading to Choices, on participant’s conceptualization of the self as well as the impact on her participation in the family, community, and professional lives. In addition, Alexandra is focusing on the trends of discourse in the women’s rights movements in the Global South, with particular emphasis on the successful campaign in Morocco to change the Moudawana or personal status code. |
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Mary is interested in the economic and social conditions of low-wage earning families, the factors affecting these conditions, and the relation between these factors and family decision-making and well-being. |
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Jonathan is a first year Master's student in the BA/MA program. His research interests are focused on the conscious and unconscious influence of music on emotion and memory. Jonathan hopes to learn how exposure to music while simultaneously processing visual stimuli can modulate the accuracy and vividness of one's memory for an emotional event. |
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Stacee studies environmental influences in the development of working memory. She focuses on the role extracurricular activities, particularly organized sport participation, play on cognitive development. In addition to sports, her current research includes other activities that may be involved in enhancing the development of working memory across the lifespan. |
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I am interested in the cognitive and neural organization of the human haptic (touch) sensory system. Specifically, I am studying how the organization of our visual system can inform our understanding of the possible organization of our haptic system. |
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Shannon is interested in positive youth development, body image among diverse women, and risk and protective factors associated with resilience during adolescence. |
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Danielle works with Dr. Michael Numan researching the interactions between hormones, the hypothalamus, and the limbic system in the regulation of maternal behavior in rats. More specifically, she is investigating the role of dopaminergic neural systems in the control of maternal behavior, which might include a facilitatory action of dopamine on the nucleus accumbens and the hypothalamus. This research will contribute to our understanding of neural circuits and mechanisms which regulate basic motivational states. |
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Kyle is interested in spatial cognition, human navigation and spatial updating, and spatial memory. |
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Jill's research interests focus on changes in memory ability and content over the age span. Specifically, her research investigates the impact of emotion upon memory processes using behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. |
