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
Oliver John, Ph.D.,website
Jennifer Lerner, Ph.D.,website
Robert Levenson, Ph.D.,website
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
Emily Drabant
Emily is a third 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
Nicole Giuliani
Nicole is a third 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
Cendri Hutcherson
Cendri is a 6th year graduate student studying the neural bases of emotion
experience and emotion regulation. She is particularly interested in
understanding the effects of attention to emotion, particularly in mixed-emotion
contexts; the ways in which the experience of certain sociomoral emotions
(e.g. anger and disgust) differ; and the social appraisals that regulate
our ability to empathise with others. email - website
Scott Jacobs
Scott Edward Jacobs is a first 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
Eran
Magen
Eran is a 5th year graduate student, and is starting to pick up the
habit of writing about himself in the 3rd person. One of his main interests in psychology is the broad topic of Willpower
- focusing especially on the following disturbing (and all too common)
chain of events:
- (A) Eran makes a decision (such as to
stop eating ice cream in the morning).
- (B) The moment of truth comes (for example,
the B&J Brownie Chocolate Fudge ice cream bucket is staring him in the
face as he gets out of bed) .
- (C) Eran remembers his decision (not to
eat ice cream in the morning).
- (D) Eran decides to act in a way different than the way he had
decided upon in step A (which is to say, he decides
to devour the ice cream right then and there).
- (E) Eran knows he's going to regret it.
- (F) Eran does just what he decided to do in step D (and
so, without further ado, Eran quickly inhales all the ice cream within
spoon-range).
- (G) Eran regrets his act, and feels bad about the whole thing. 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 specific 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
Emma Seppala
Emma is a fourth 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
Supriya Misra, email
Eileen Sisk, email
Elena Wright, email
Research Assistants
Barrett Anderson
Rose Broome
Katie Denny
Emily Fletcher
Lauren Hay
Erina Hsu
Mary Liz McCurdy
Rika Onizuka
Neekaan Oshidary
Jenny Pandiscio
Sean Pereira
Lisa Speiser
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
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 |
