Oriel joins Hidden Brain for “From One Extreme to the Other,” a conversation about political polarization.

Oriel’s Scientific American op-ed explores how influential people map their social world.

Oriel discusses the social value of gossip on CBS Mornings.

In her TIME op-ed, Oriel explores strategic gossiping in social networks.

Yi Yang Teoh has been awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, one of the most competitive and prestigious postdoctoral awards in Canada! Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), this fellowship will support his exciting project on how a shared understanding of emotion helps people connect socially. Learn more about the fellowship here.

The Guardian covers the lab’s research on navigating social networks and climbing the social ladder.

We’re excited to share that Oriel was featured on NPR’s Short Wave podcast! In the episode “The Science of Disagreeing Well”, she discusses how our brain's amygdala responds when we interact with someone we perceive as untrustworthy or as belonging to a different group.

🎧 Listen to the episode here: Spotify – NPR Short Wave

Joey wins SNE’s best dissertation award for his beautiful set of studies investigating how “Emotion prediction errors guide socially adaptive behavior”. Well done Joey!

Our new study on opposing partisans’ neural representations of political content, Shared neural representations and temporal segmentation of political content predict ideological similarity, made the news in an article in The Economist this week! Read the article here.

Jae won the 2022 Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes up to four students across the Graduate School for “teaching that influences, motivates and inspires students to learn and fosters independent learning,” the “development of curriculum and resources that promote student learning,” and the “development of students as individual learners.” Learn more about the award here.

Joey was selected as one of twelve graduate students to give a talk about his research, “Economic Inequality Corrupts Moral Standards,” at Brown’s 2022 Research Matters event, which “showcases exceptional graduate student scholarship and celebrates their discoveries and ideas.” Learn more about Research Matters here and watch a recording of Joey’s amazing talk here.

Oriel was recognized with the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s 2022 Young Investigator Award for outstanding contributions to science. Learn more about the award and her award lecture here.

Oriel won the Association for Psychological Science’s 2022 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions, which recognizes “the best of the many new and cutting edge ideas coming from our most creative and promising investigators who together embody the future of psychological science.” Learn more about the award here and listen to a podcast episode highlighting her research here.

Oriel received the American Psychological Association’s 2022 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and human learning for her “contributions to our understanding of how the brain detects, values and assesses conflicting reward and punishment contingencies during moral dilemmas, and to examine the role of emotion and its operational power in shaping these social interactions.” Learn more about the award here.

Our new study on political polarization, Intolerance of uncertainty modulates brain-to-brain synchrony during politically polarized perception, was featured in Salon this week. Read the article here.

Grace Deng won the Muriel Fain Sher Premium in Psychology for her outstanding thesis. The prize is "awarded annually to the most outstanding woman student in the senior class 'showing the greatest promise in the field of Psychology.'"

Eric Ingram won the David Brooks Prize for outstanding promise as a scholar and researcher in the field of clinical psychology.

This recognition is well-deserved, and we are so proud!

Eric Ingram has been awarded the prestigious Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship fellowship to fund his PhD at the University of Kentucky! The fellowship includes a full standard graduate tuition scholarship, student health plan enrollment, and an additional stipend. Awards are competitive and based on leadership experience, contribution to diversity, extracurricular activities, awards and recognition, and community service. Learn more about the award here.

Grace has formally accepted her offer from Caltech's Social and Decision Neuroscience program! Her first year, she will rotate between three advisors: Dean Mobbs, Antonio Rangel, and John O’Doherty. Then, she’ll decide whose lab she wants to stay in for the rest of grad school. Grace is particularly interested in using computational modeling and neuroimaging to understand the role of emotion in social learning.
We are so proud, and will miss her so much next year!

This Early Career Award recognized "the most creative and promising investigators in the field of social neuroscience and will embody the future of social neuroscience through their cutting edge ideas and novel research." Learn more about the award here.

After receiving multiple graduate school offers, Eric has formally accepted his offer from the University of Kentucky's Clinical Neuropsychology program! Eric has also been nominated for an additional fellowship. Eric will be working with Dr. Justin Karr on cognitive aging and the outcomes of mild traumatic brain injuries in victims of intimate partner violence.

We are so proud, and will certainly miss him next year!