People - Postdoctoral Fellows
Oriel Feldman-Hall
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Phelps Lab
My research explores the neural basis of human social behaviour, with a focus on morality, altruism, and socio-emotional decision-making. The human social experience centers on resolving competing pressures of harm, fairness, self-interest, and concern for others. The main goal of my research is to understand how the brain detects, values, and assesses these conflicting reward and punishment contingencies, and to examine the role of emotion and its operational power in shaping these social interactions. I combine behavioural economics and social psychology tools with imaging techniques to investigate the brain mechanisms that support these complex processes.
Email: oriel.feldmanhall@nyu.edu
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Andreas Kappes
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Postdoctoral Fellow
My research focuses on the interplay of controlled and automatic processes, especially on how controlled processes shape automatic ones, and how their interplay brings about behavior. In one line of research, for instance, I examine how the integration of obstacles into one’s thinking about the future impacts implicit cognitions, and how these cognitions then guide goal pursuit. In another line of research, I study how controlled processes can shape automatic affective responses in moral judgments.
Email: ak1967@nyu.edu
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Jeni Kubota
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Phelps Lab
My research focuses on the psychological and neural substrates of impression formation and how these correlates relate to real world behaviors. In particular, my work focuses on the neural correlates of stereotype and prejudice change. It is my goal to utilize a multi-level approach to investigate these processes from molecular determinants, such as genes, through substrate and systems activation, to behavioral outcomes. I intended to translate basic neural and social psychological research into practical applications for bias change in real world situations for example in hiring and judicial contexts.
Email: jk149@nyu.edu
Site: www.jenikubota.com
Sharareh Noorbaloochi
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Van Bavel Lab
Sharareh received her BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She is currently completing her PhD studies in Psychology and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She will be joining NYU as a postdoctoral fellow in January of 2012 to work with Jay Van Bavel and John Jost. She is primarily interested in exploring the effect of moral education on the neural mechanisms that underlie moral judgments. She is also interested in implementation of wise interventions to reduce moral self-inconsistency evoked by national or political interests.
Email: sharare@stanford.edu
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Petra Schmid
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Amodio Lab
Petra’s current research focuses on the impact of social power on cognition and interpersonal judgments. For example, she studies how power affects stereotyping and prejudice and its underlying motivational and attentional mechanisms. Also, Petra is interested in power effects on information processing and conflict monitoring.