People

Seda Akbiyik

sakbiyik@fas.harvard.edu

Advisory Board Member

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.

Rachel Calcott

RA Representative

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...

Tessa Charlesworth

tet371@g.harvard.edu

Advisory Board Member

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 DiNicola

lmd600@g.harvard.edu

Advisory Board Member

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 Dorfman

hdorfman@g.harvard.edu

Co-founder and Advisory Board Member

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

Jamie Greer

jamiegreer@g.harvard.edu

Communication Coordinator

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

Social Media Coordinator

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 Laurent

emmalaurent@g.harvard.edu

Co-President

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 Lemley

rlemley@fas.harvard.edu

RA Representative

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.

Kirsten Morehouse

kirsten_morehouse@g.harvard.edu

Advisory Board Member

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.

Srijani Saha

srijanisaha@g.harvard.edu

Co-President

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...

Maheen Shermohammed

mshermohammed@g.harvard.edu

Co-founder and Advisory Board Member

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.