Director
James Gross, Ph.D., email - website
Friends, Visitors, & Collaborators
Lisa Barrett, Ph.D., website
Emily Butler, email
Tal Carthy, email
Jeff Cooper, email
Carl Frankel, email
Carolyn Fredericks, email
Cristina Gatti, email
Cendri Hutcherson, email
Oliver John, Ph.D., website
Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D., website
Robert Levenson, Ph.D., website
Eran Magen, email
Supriya Misra, email
Iris Mauss, Ph.D., email
Frank Newman, M.A., email
Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D., website
Becky Ray, Ph.D., email
Sanjay Srivastava, email
Maya Tamir, Ph.D., email
Frank Wilhelm, Ph.D., website
Graduate Students and Post-Docs
Matthew Boden, Ph.D.
Matthew is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and clinical psychology internship at the Veterans Administration, Palo Alto Health Care System. His current research investigates (a) the specific mechanisms, processes, and experiences that account for how and when individuals attend to and understand their emotions (or do not), and (b) how emotions and emotional processes influence belief formation and evolution, with a focus on peculiar and delusional beliefs. In his clinical work, Matthew uses mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies to treat symptoms and correlates of psychosis and emotion dysregulation. email
Elise Dan-Glauser, Ph.D.
Elise completed her Ph.D. in Affective Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research on the unfolding of emotional processes focuses on the physiological concomitants (both central and peripheral) of subjective experience of emotion. She is particularly interested in understanding the interrelation between the different components of emotion such as experience, expressivity, and autonomous reactions. Furthermore, Elise investigates emotion induction in the laboratory via modulation of appraisal processes. Currently a post-doctoral scholar in the Department of Psychology, at Stanford University, she studies how various mono and multi-channel emotion regulation strategies will affect the magnitude and the coherence of emotional component activities. email
Emily Drabant
Emily is a fourth year neuroscience graduate student. She is interested
in using functional neuroimaging to investigate brain circuitry underlying
emotion processing and emotion regulation. She is particularly
interested in the role of genetic variation in these processes, as well
as the potential interaction between genetics and life stress on the
neural mechanisms of emotion regulation in healthy and clinical populations. email - website
Nicole Giuliani
Nicole is a fourth year psychology graduate student studying the neural bases
of amusement regulation as they relate to coping. She is particularly interested
in using functional neuroimaging to investigate the how the selective identification and
appreciation of amusing aspects of negative situations can repair negative mood. email
Philippe Goldin, Ph.D.
Philippe completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
at Rutgers University, Clinical Psychology Internship at the UC San Diego /
San Diego VA consortium, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the
Department of Psychology at Stanford University. His clinical research
focuses on (a) functional neuroimaging investigations of cognitive
affective mechanisms in both healthy adults and in individuals with various
forms of psychopathology, (b) the effect of mindfulness meditation and
cognitive behavioral therapy on neural substrates of emotional reactivity,
emotion regulation, and attention regulation, and (c) the effect of
child-parent mindfulness meditation training on anxiety, compassion, and
quality of family interactions. email
Eran Halperin, Ph.D.
Eran Halperin is currently a post-doc in the Department of Psychology, Stanford University (Fulbright scholarship). He is also a research fellow in the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. He has a B.A in Political Science and Psychology, M.A. in Political Science and Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Haifa (all three - summa cum laude). His work integrates psychological and political theories and methods in order to explain different aspects of inter-group relations and conflicts. His main line of research focuses on emotions and emotion regulation in inter-group conflicts and conflict resolution. In addition, Eran studies political and psychological antecedents and consequences of negative attitudes and behavior towards minority groups. In recent years, he has published articles in journals such as Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Social Issues, Political Psychology, Political Science Quarterly and Social Science Quarterly. email - website
Scott Jacobs
Scott Edward Jacobs is a second year graduate student in the personality area. He is currently investigating the effects of emotion regulation on cognitive performance by examining the role of emotion regulation processes during test taking. email
Janice Kuo, Ph.D.
Janice completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington, her Clinical Psychology Internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Her primary research interest is in the psychophysiological correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation in psychopathology, with an emphasis on borderline personality disorder (BPD). She is also interested in examining the physiological mechanisms associated with various psychosocial interventions, particularly the different acceptance and change strategies in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). email
Kateri McRae, Ph.D.
Kateri completed her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona with a specialization in Cognition and Neural Systems. She is working on several projects to disentangle the relationship between emotion and cognition as they interface during emotion regulation. In particular, she is interested in the neural systems representing both stimulus and person characteristics that impact the success of emotion regulation. Specific projects involve using fMRI to investigate the developmental trajectory of emotion regulation, the differential efficacy of various emotion regulation strategies, and the effect of previous emotional experiences on emotion regulation success. email - website
Wiveka Ramel, Ph.D.
Wiveka completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at University of California San Diego and San Diego State University and her Clinical Psychology Internship at Palo Alto Veterans Administration. Her research interests are centered on the interplay between affect and cognition and their neurobiological correlates, with focus on memory, rumination, acceptance, mindfulness and emotion regulation in mood disorders. Her clinical interests are influenced by humanistic-existential and Eastern philosophies, and she is trained in a variety of clinical approaches, including cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal therapies, with favorites being Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness-based approaches. email - website
Emma Seppala
Emma is a fifth year graduate student. She is particularly
interested in prosocial emotions and behaviors. She is addressing the
following questions in her research: What makes people feel connected
to one another? What factors increase feelings of compassion and
bring about benevolent action in people? She is exploring different
methodologies to investigate these questions. email
Kelly Werner , Ph.D.
Kelly completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, Clinical Psychology Internship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. Kelly focuses on investigating the neural correlates of emotional and empathic processing in neurological and psychiatric populations. Furthermore, she is interested in understanding the influence of cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness meditation on the neural substrates of emotional processing in patients with social anxiety disorder. email
Honors & Masters Students
Max Hare, email
Sarah Herstad, email
Peter Radu, email
Research Assistants
Barrett Anderson
Rose Broome
Steven Crane
Parijat Deshpande, email
Ben Edwards
Emily Fletcher
Lauren Hay
Erina Hsu
Anna Lizaur, email
Johnna Medina
Sita Nojopranoto, email
Rika Onizuka
Neekaan Oshidary
Jenny Pandiscio
Sean Pereira
Mia Skytte
Staff
Tamara Danoyan, Administrative Associate, email
Will Dayton, Lab Manger, email
Doc Edge, email
Tali Manber, email
Alumni
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Emily Butler, Ph.D University of Arizona, website
Cendri Hutercheron, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, email
Eran Magen, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, email
Iris Mauss, Ph.D., University of Denver, website
Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D., Columbia University, website
Rebecca Ray, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, email
Jane Richards, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, email
Jon Rottenberg, Ph.D., University of South Florida, email
Sanjay Srivastava, Ph.D., University of Oregon, website
Maya Tamir, Ph.D., Boston College, email
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