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As a political science major in college, I took an elective that sounded interesting and easy: Social psychology. It turned out to be one of the hardest classes I took in college and the most riveting. It was taught by Dan Gilbert who became first a mentor then collaborator and friend. I abandoned political science and went on to graduate school in psychology at the University of Virginia. At UVA I worked with Tim Wilson and Dan Wegner researching the human tendency to mis-predict our emotional responses (Wilson) and the illusory nature of conscious will (Wegner). While studying consciousness with Dan W, I became interested in the emerging field of neuroimaging and how the brain might inform psychological questions. I pursued this interest in an NIMH postdoc with Alex Martin where I learned fMRI and, more importantly, how to think about the brain.
In the fall of 2006, I became an assistant professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department of Dartmouth College. I live in Hanover with my husband Andrew and our two small children, Isaac and Kate.
During my long and varied path to get here I had the opportunity to learn from my intellectual heroes: |
THALIA
WHEATLEY,
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Their training gave me the solid foundation upon which to build a research career investigating what interests me the most: awareness of our own mental states (emotions, intentions) and how we understand those states in others.
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Christine Looser
Christine got her BA from Holy Cross where she designed her own major to reflect her interest in philosophy, psychology and biology. In addition to her coursework she gained research experience in Dr. Marisa Carrasco's lab at NYU where she investigated the effect of exogenous (stimulus-driven) attention on perceptual learning.
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Avni Shah, Lab Manager
Avni graduated in 2007 from Dartmouth with a BA in Psychology. She coordinates our research, oversees our team of undergraduate assistants, and ensures that all projects run efficiently.
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PAST AND CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE LAB MEMBERS
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CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
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Elyssa S. Campbell ('09)
Presidential Scholar working on the Uncanny Valley project (Spring and Summer 2007).
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Rebecca D. Davidson Wolf ('10)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellow working on the "Experience of Intent" project (Fall 2007, Winter 2008).
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Shannon Hextrum ('09)
Presidential Scholar working on the Uncanny Valley project (Fall 2007, Spring 2008).
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Fiona Lundie ('09)
Presidential Scholar working on the "Emotion in Motion (and Music)" project (Summer and Fall 2007).
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Liza Wiley ('09)
Presidential Scholar working on the "Experience of Intent" project (Summer 2007, Spring 2008).
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PAST LAB MEMBERS
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Luis Dominguez ('07)
Honor's thesis: Cortical Activity Predictive of Volitional Movement: An ERP Analysis
Although I wasn't going to take any students during my first year at Dartmouth, Luis walked into my office with a proposal to test one of the most intriguing findings in neuroscience. To accomplish this study, Luis set up an ERP lab from scratch to record and analyze motor potentials relating to the conscious experience of action. He is currently in a post baccalaureate medical program.
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COLLABORATORS
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Yale Cohen
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dartmouth College
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Jonathan Haidt
University of Virginia
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Arvid Kappas
Jacobs University, Bremen
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Alex Martin
National Institute of Mental Health
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Jen Silvers
Columbia University
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Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Dartmouth College
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