Committee

Rachel is a graduate student working with Fiery Cushman. She’s interested in building computational models of moral learning, and investigates the fundamental factors that contribute to the development of diverse moral norms. She joined WiP in her first...

Jamie is a graduate student working with Elizabeth Phelps. Her research explores ways of weakening negative emotional memories and/or making them less intrusive, especially methods that access memories indirectly/unconsciously.

Lily Jensen (she/her) is a research coordinator in Dr. Kate McLaughlin's Stress and Development Lab. She is interested in finding ways to better understand and assess personality changes under circumstances of social/environmental stress particularly from...

Emma is a graduate student working with Elizabeth Phelps. Informed by both basic neuroscientific and cognitive theory, Emma's research combines diverse neuroimaging techniques with behavioral measures to elucidate the neurobiological underpinnings of...

Rachel is a research assistant working with Randy Buckner. Her research work focuses on the effects of neurodegeneration and tracking age-related changes neurologically, psychologically, and cognitively.

Srijani is a graduate student in the Harvard Vision Lab, working with Prof. George Alvarez and Prof. Talia Konkle. She uses large-scale deep learning networks and psychometric experiments to study how complex human visual phenomena such as lightness...

Emily is a graduate student working with Elizabeth Phelps. She is interested in maladaptive emotional memories and leveraging memory reconsolidation to dampen threat responses and subjective negative feelings related to these memories. She is also...

Jenna is a graduate student working with Dan Schacter. Due to her background in neuroscience and philosophy, Jenna became interested in how people cognitively represent and reconstruct their experiences of the world. Currently, she is investigating how...

Seda is a post-doc in the Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory working with Alfonso Caramazza. She studies the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic and conceptual processes.

Tessa is a graduate student working with Mahzarin Banaji. Tessa’s research focuses on how and why implicit attitudes and stereotypes change, both across child development and across long-term sociological data.

Lauren is a graduate student working with Randy Buckner. Lauren is interested in understanding human brain organization and social processes, including neurobiological underpinnings and influences on behavior.

Hayley is a post-doc at Harvard working with Liz Phelps. Hayley’s research focuses on how emotions influence decision-making and learning.

Kirsten Morehouse is a doctoral student working with Mahzari n Banaji. Kirsten uses a variety of behavioral and computational methods to study human behavior, specifically attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of social groups.

While at Harvard, Maheen was a graduate student working with Leah Somerville. Her research asks how adults and teens manage their emotions in challenging circumstances.