Latest Lab News

Beth Kruse was awarded the 2023 APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship to support her research on real-time fMRI neurofeedback. Way to go Beth!!

We are excited to welcome our new Clinical Psychology PhD student Katie Gibbs! Katie completed her undergraduate degree at University of Pittsburgh and is joining us from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where she worked as a full-time research assistant. Welcome!

SCP lab’s very own graduate students Abhishek Saxena and Bridget Shovestul, full-time staff Emily Dudek and Stephanie Reda, and principal investigator Dr. David Dodell-Feder, alongside collaborators Arun Venkataraman and Dr. Steve Lamberti at URMC, evaluate whether real-time fMRI neurofeedback from the temporo-parietal junction leads to volitional control of the neural network subserving theory of mind… Continue reading Paper Published in NeuroImage!

Graduate student, Lisa Lin, with collaborators Mallory Feldman at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Ashley Tudder at Washington University in St. Louis, Abriana Gresham at Ohio University, Dr. Brett Peters at Ohio University, and Dr. Dodell-Feder, evaluate the degree of spontaneous coordination of movements among dyads and friendship satisfaction in the paper “Friends in Sync? Examining… Continue reading Paper Published in Journal of Nonverbal Behavior!

The Discover Grant for Undergraduate Summer Research (sponsored by the Schwartz Undergraduate Research Fund) supports exemplary students completing summer research projects at the University of Rochester. Two SCP Lab research assistants have been awarded the grant for Summer 2023: Brian Taliano and Catherine Lee. Brian’s project will investigate the association between paranoid thoughts and social… Continue reading Lab members Brian Taliano and Catherine Lee awarded Discover Grants!

SCP Lab’s undergraduate RAs, Chenyuan Qu and Denialle Deis, each presented a first-authored poster at the UR Undergraduate Research Exposition! Both Chenyuan and Daniella’s projects examined potential factors associated with relationship quality and satisfaction in romantic relationships. Way to go Chenyuan and Daniella!

The UR Office of Graduate Education awarded Abhishek Saxena with the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student! This award recognizes the role of graduate student instructors in undergraduate education. Congratulations Abhi!

SCP Lab’s very own graduate students, Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena, both successfully matched to clinical internships for the 2023-24 academic year! Bridget will be working with VA Serious Mental Illness at VA Maryland Health Care System / University of Maryland, and Abhishek will be working with the Early Psychosis Intervention Center at Ohio State… Continue reading Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena Starting Clinical Internships in the 23-24 Academic Year!

Abhishek Saxena was awarded the 2022 American Psychological Foundation (APF)/COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship: William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship to support his dissertation research examining the differential impacts of minority stressors on psychotic-like experience. Congrats Abhi!!

SCP lab’s very own graduate students Bridget Shovestul and Abhishek Saxena, full-time staff Stephanie Reda and Emily Dudek, undergraduate RA Chenwei Wu, and principal investigator Dr. David Dodell-Feder, alongside coauthor Dr. Steve Lamberti at URMC, evaluate the prediction of future emotions in social situations and social anhedonia in the paper “Social affective forecasting and social… Continue reading Paper Published in Schizophrenia!