ASI Personnel
Boston College Faculty
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Lisa Feldman Barrett
Professor (Ph.D. University of Waterloo, 1992) The experience of emotion; affective responding; the perception of emotion in self.
Phone: (617) 552-4111
Email: barretli@bc.edu
Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~barretli
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Jon Horvitz
Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991) The neurochemistry of learning and motivation; dopamine and habit learning; parkinson's disease, schizophrenia. We examine simple learning in rats and genetic knockout mice to understand the role of dopamine activity within its various brain target sites in specific aspects of learning.
Phone: (617) 552-2999
Email: jon.horvitz@bc.edu
website: http://www2.bc.edu/~horvitjo/
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Elizabeth Kensinger
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. MIT,
2003) Neuroscience: The effect of emotional content on memory; specifically, the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which emotion influences in the vividness and accuracy of memory, and how these influences change across the adult lifespan; research questions are investigated through behavioral testing of young and older adults and functional neuroimaging (fMRI).
Phone: (617) 552-1350
Email: elizabeth.kensinger.1@bc.edu
Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~kensinel
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Michael Numan
Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1973) Neurobiology of motivation, emotion, and social behavior; specifically neurobiology of parental behavior in rodents and the effects of hormones and experience on the relevant hypothalamic, limbic, and striatal circuits.
Phone: (617) 552-4106
Email: numan@bc.edu
website: http://www2.bc.edu/~numan/
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Karen Rosen
Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1984)
Social and emotional development during infancy and early childhood; parent-child attachment relationships; sibling relationships.
Phone: (617) 552-4104
Email: rosenk@bc.edu
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James A. Russell
Professor (Ph.D. UCLA, 1974)
Emotion. The expression and recognition of emotion through faces. Children's understanding of emotion and the development of emotional experience. Cultural influences on emotion. The distinction between mood and emotion and scientific taxonomies of each.
Phone: (617) 552-4546
Email: james.russell@bc.edu
Website: http://www2.bc.edu/~russeljm
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Maya Tamir
Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004)
Dr. Tamir explores the instrumental functions of emotions and their role in emotion regulation. She studies whether individuals know about the instrumental functions of emotions and whether they seek such functions when they regulate their emotions. She is also interested in the ways in which individuals learn which emotions are helpful to them and when.
Phone: (617) 552-3983
Email: maya.tamir.1@bc.edu
website: http://www2.bc.edu/~tamirm
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