Latest Lab News

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!

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 whether the degree of nonverbal synchrony among couples predicted their current and future relationship satisfaction… Continue reading Lisa Lin awarded NSF Honorable Mention!

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 go, Abhi!

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 on his research: Representing & Reasoning about Beliefs of Romantic Couples: a Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis… Continue reading Graduating Seniors Defend Honors Theses

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 activated. See the full feature here!