Latest Lab News

We are excited to welcome our new Clinical Psychology PhD student Beth Kruse! Beth completed her undergraduate degree at University of Michigan and is joining us from California, where she worked as the Clinical Research Coordinator for the Translational Cognitive Affective Neuroscience Lab & Sensorimotor Integration Lab at University of California, Davis. Welcome!

Graduate student Lisa Lin had the opportunity to present a poster on her research examining the relationship between nonverbal synchrony and friendship satisfaction and support at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention in San Francisco! Congrats Lisa!!!

Graduate students Abhishek Saxena and Bridget Shovestul, Lab Manager Stephanie Reda and former Study Coordinator Paige Amormino got the opportunity to present on their research at this year’s APS Conference in Chicago. They are pictured here enjoying the city. Congrats everyone!

The Distinguished Contribution Award is granted by the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP) “each year to an individual who has made an extremely important career contribution to the science of clinical psychology”. This year our very own Abhishek Saxena has received the award for their work examining the use of real-time fMRI… Continue reading Graduate Student Abhishek Saxena wins SSCP Distinguished Contribution Award!

The Meliora Fellowship is sponsored by the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science (BCS) here at the University of Rochester. Meliora Fellowships fully fund summer research opportunities for students from backgrounds underrepresented in research. This 10-week program pairs students with faculty labs working in brain research for an intensive research experience. The in-lab experiences are… Continue reading Undergrad Aaron Johnson awarded BCS Meliora Fellowship to conduct research with the SCP Lab!

SCP Lab’s undergraduate RA, Mars Scharf, defended their honors thesis examining the role of social exclusion in psychotic-like experiences! All of the Spring 2022 Undergrad Honors Theses talks are viewable on the department’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/kvwVUm6ZV2M

The F30 Grant is a prestigious award granted by the NIH “to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising predoctoral students, who are matriculated in a combined MD/PhD or other dual-doctoral degree training program (e.g. DDS/PhD, AuD/PhD, DVM/PhD), and who intend careers as physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists”. SCP Lab’s very own Emily Przysinda… Continue reading Graduate Student Emily Przysinda Awarded F30 Grant!

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 2022: Daniella Deis and Chenyuan Qu. Chenyuan’s project will investigate the correlation between romantic couples’ Theory-of-Mind abilities… Continue reading Lab members Chenyuan Qu and Daniella Deis awarded Discover Grants!

Full-Time Lab Manager Position at the University of Rochester The Social Cognition & Psychopathology Lab at the University of Rochester, directed by David Dodell-Feder, Ph.D., is seeking to hire a full-time lab manager to start this summer (start date flexible). The lab manager will coordinate and oversee a series of research projects aimed at understanding… Continue reading SCP Lab is hiring!

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!