David Dodell-Feder and his colleague Andy Anderson received a grant from the Schmitt Program in Integrative Neuroscience. The grant will fund future research looking at romantic relationships. Go David and Andy!

Lisa Lin was awarded the 2020 APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship to support her research examining the relationship between nonverbal synchrony and relationship satisfaction in close relationships”

Lisa Lin was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her project proposed to use Motion Energy Analysis, an automated program, to quantify nonverbal synchrony among romantic couples and examine […]

The UR Psychology Department presented Abhishek Saxena with the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Service Award! This award recognizes outstanding graduate student contributions to enriching diversity, equity, and inclusion in our department, across the university, and in our community. Way to […]

Two of our lab members successfully defended their honors theses! Elizabeth Schupbach presented on Marital Relationship and Adolescent Emotional Insecurity in Association with Dynamics of Parenting Behavior. A recording of the presentation is available on YouTube here. Siddhant Iyer presented […]

Findings from a recent paper that Dr. Dodell-Feder was an author on have been featured on URMC’s news site! The project used fMRI to examine brain networks implicated in memory as well as individual differences in how these networks are […]

Research Assistant Sunny Liu will be studying the relationship between social exclusion and the development of psychopathology mediated by neural changes under advisor and SCP Lab grad student Abhi Saxena! The project will use data from the national longitudinal ABCD […]

Research Assistant Jonathan Lai’s first conference paper focusing on sentiments about the term “face masks” and their relation to key policy shift events and political ideology has been accepted for the competitive 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data! Jonathan […]

Former Reading Study Coordinator, Paige Amormino began working towards her PhD in Psychology at Georgetown University this Fall! Paige is working under advisor Dr. Abigail Marsh of the Laboratory on Social & Affective Neuroscience. The lab studies the social, cognitive, […]

Former lab manager Emily Dudek has started a new position as the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai in New York, NY! There she is working on a randomized trial for an online intervention […]