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Director
Kevin Ochsner, Ph.D.
Kevin received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and his Masters degree and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University. He has
also received postdoctoral training in social psychology at Harvard and
functional neuroimaging at Stanford University.
He currently is
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University.
Kevin's research interests include the psychological and neural processes
involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person
perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience
approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social
psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other.
His teaching includes
seminars on social
cognitive neuroscience and current
topics in cognitive neuroscience (that focuses in some years on fMRI methodology and other years on functional neuroanatomy) as well as a lecture course on
experimental psychological methods for studying emotion and social
cognition.
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Post-Doctoral Fellows
Kim
Montgomery
Ethan is a post-doctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health
and Society Scholars Program.
She has interests in the neural bases of social cognition, the mirror
system, perspective taking, interpersonal relationships and health. She is currently working on a project
that examines their inter-relationships.
Graduate Students
Hedy Kober
Hedy is a fourth year graduate student working
projects examining the regulation of appetitive desires, meta-analyses of
the functions associated with medial prefrontal cortex, and the effects of
meditation training on emotional and social cognitive abilities.
Jamil Zaki
Jamil is a third year graduate student with interests
in empathy and emotion regulation. A
current passion is a multi-faceted collaborative (with Niall Bolger)
project that uses field, psychophysiological and fMRI methods to examine the neural and psychological
bases of empathy.
Bryan Denny
Bryan is a first year graduate student who arrives at Columbia after a stint as a research assistant with
Todd Heatherton at Dartmouth
University. Bryan’s
interested in emotion regulation and how one can learn to regulate more
effectively.
Jennifer
Silvers
Jen is a first year graduate
student with interests in social rejection and emotion regulation. Most recently she worked at NIH in the
lab of Alex Martin and has done work on both autism and oxytocin.
Research Assistants
Sonja Schmer-Galunder
Sonja is the SCAN Unit lab manager and is working on
various projects related to stress and cognition and emotion
regulation. She already has a
master’s degree in sociology and was the lab manager for the Davachi Lab at NYU prior to moving uptown.
Peter Mende-Siedlecki
Peter
is a research assistant, and recently matriculated Columbia Undergraduate
(and thespian) working on studies of emotion regulation, pain regulation,
and their relationship to addiction.
Matthew Davidson
Matthew is the SCAN Unit systems administrator, go-to
person for computing and programming needs, and fMRI
data analyst. Matt has a sardonic
wit and the most complete collection of politically savvy t-shirts this
side of the Hudson.
Alumni
Ethan
Kross
Ethan was a post-doctoral fellow from 2007-2008and is now an assistant
professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is an on-going collaborator on
projects examining the use of different forms of cognitive construal (e.g.
those involve accepting as opposed to reinterpreting the meaning of
stimuli) to regulate emotion.
Josh
Davis
Josh received his PhD in Spring
2008 and will be starting a position this Fall at Barnard college He
continues collaborative work on projects examining the role of the body
(i.e. somatic and behavioral expression) in emotion and emotion
regulation. Josh has broad interests
in the nature of psychological theories, and theory-building more
generally.
Andreas
Olsson
Andreas was a post-doc from 2005-2007 and
is now a research fellow at the Karolinska
Institute in Sweden.
He is an-going collaborator on projects examining the behavioral and neural
mechanisms mediating emotions in social contexts, including the ways in
which cognitive goals and strategies can affect the emotional processes
involved in the perception of, and learning from, others.
Brent
Hughes
Brent was the SCAN Unit lab
manager and a research assistant working on projects examining the neural
bases of emotion regulation and pain.
Brent was a U.
of Michigan undergrad
and after graduating, managed the lab of Dr. Steve Taylor. Brent is now a 1st year
graduate student at the University
of Texas at Austin.
Teal Eich
Teal was a
post-bac in the lab, worked for two year as a
graduate student at UCLA, and returns to Columbia in Fall 2008 to resume her
graduate studies on the East Coast.
She has broad interests in theory of mind, self-representation, and
currently is working on a collaborative project examining different modes
of affective judgment.
Collaborators
Lisa
Feldmann-Barrett, Ph.D. website
Jennifer Beer, Ph.D.
website
Niall Bolger, Ph.D.
website
Joan Chiao,
Ph.D. website
John Gabrieli,
Ph.D. website
James Gross, Ph.D. website
Sean Mackey, M.D. website
Tor Wager, Ph.D. website
Michael Anderson, Ph.D. website
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