Positive psychology of sexuality and gender, protective attributes of stigma, sexual & gender identity and well-being (LGBTQQIA), social and personality development, and stereotypes and prejudice

Influence of affective experiences on learning and memory, motivation

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Behavioral Neuroscience: Motivation, anticipation, and goal directed behavior

Motivation, Self-regulation

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The effects of social cognitive factors on health behaviors, specifically sexual behavior

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I study changes in the perception of authorship and agency, particularly with respect to social cues, like other intentional agents

Moral judgments, ethical decision-making, shared reality

Romantic relationships and Physiology

Rejection Sensitivity as it relates to: Selective Attention, Interpersonal Relationships, Cognitive Control, Thought Suppression and Personality

The affects of uncertainty, risk-perception and culture on decision making

Learning and memory across development and supporting neural mechanism

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Brain systems supporting emotional appraisal, emotions in daily life,  phenomenological 'folk' theories of emotion

Culture, stigma and prejudice, intersectional and feminist epistemologies in the study of psychology

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Memory and metacognition; applying cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice

Strategy formation, adaptation, functional variation, miscellanea

The brain systems that support self-regulation of behavior and social learning

Drugs of abuse and the circadian rhythm

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Developmental cognitive neuroscience, neural representations of motivation, emotion-cognition interactions, educational neuroscience

I am interested in the interplay between individual, social, and structural factors in health and how these affect people's health behaviors

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developmental psychobiology, behavioural neuroscience, epigenetics, neuroendocrinology

Stereotyping, intergroup interactions, multiple identities, and cultural psychology

The brain systems supporting emotion, empathic accuracy, and prosocial behavior. The influence of emotion on decision-making

The impact of affective and motivational states upon neural and cognitive bases of learning, memory, and decision making

Social cognition, agency, consciousness, and voluntary behavior

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Individual and group decision making, specifically under risk and uncertainty; Motivation; Negotiation; Conflict Resolution; and Shared Reality

Relationships, both romantic and parent/child

The interplay of risk perception, decision making, and memory

Animal behavior, and more specifically primate social behavior and cognition

The study of decision-making under uncertainty, risk-perception, memory

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