Joshua Jackson successfully defended his dissertation entitled Moral concept theory: Cultural evolution, social cognition, and the bridge from cooperation to morality. Dr. Jackson will be joining Kellogg School of Management in July 2021 as a postdoctoral fellow.
Joseph Leshin receives the Innovation in Equity and Inclusion Award
Joseph Leshin, MA, was awarded the inaugural Innovation in Equity and Inclusion Award from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. This award is given to individuals who have made significant, innovative, and impactful contributions to enhancing equity and inclusivity in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Joseph has contributed many years of service towards increasing equity and inclusion in Psychology and Neuroscience and has been a leader and advocate in our department and beyond.
Jingyi Luo receives an Honorable Mention for her thesis work
Congrats to graduating senior, Jingyi Luo, who received an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Reznick Award for Diversity Enhancement in Psychological Science from the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. This award encourages and honors undergraduate students who make a contribution to the advancement of knowledge concerning issues that face diverse populations. Jingyi’s thesis work examined gender differences in the role of the body in emotion and its impact on health.
Gaby Alvarez defends her Masters thesis
Congrats to Gaby Alvarez, MA, who defended her thesis entitled “Previous exposure to racial discrimination and current affective context modulate black individuals’ neural reactivity to white faces.” Gaby is pictured with committee members Keely Muscatell, Kristen Lindquist, and Keith Payne.
Dr. Jennifer MacCormack receives Society for Affective Science Dissertation Award
CASL graduate, Dr. Jennifer MacCormack, received the inaugural Dissertation Award from the Society for Affective Science. Dr. MacCormack’s 2020 dissertation examined how beliefs about the body interact with physiological reactivity during stress to shape negative affective experience. Dr. MacCormack is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.
Senior Justin Wahlers defends his honors thesis
Congrats to Justin Wahlers, who defended his thesis entitled “A Situational Analysis of Emotion Regulation: Exploring the Role of Emotion-by-Strategy Associations in Regulating Negative Affect.” Justin will begin a PhD in Psychology in the lab of Katie Garrison at the University of Alabama in the fall.
Senior Jingyi Luo defends her Honors thesis
Congrats to Jingyi Luo, who successfully defended her Senior Honors thesis entitled “Investigating the Relationship Between Gender, Interoception, and Belief".”
The CASL welcomes postdocs Jessica Flannery and Junqiang (Jacob) Dai!
We are so pleased to welcome postdocs Jessica Flannery and Jacob Dai to our team. Drs. Flannery and Dai will join our team in August, 2021. They will be working on our study of social affective processing in adolescent peer relationships and risk behavior in collaboration members of the DSN Lab.
Congrats to Adrienne Bonar and Mallory Feldman for receiving a Graduate Research Fellowship and an Honorable Mention from the NSF
The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines.
Joshua Jackson accepts a postdoc at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management!
Congrats to Josh, who will begin his postdoc in summer, 2021.
