The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is proud to announce four graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2022-2023 academic year.
Dissertation: "Mapping the Malleable Self: How Self-Views are Represented and Learned Within the Social Brain"
Advisor: Meghan Meyer
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Dissertation: "Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Serotonin Modulation of Impulsivity and Reward"
Advisor: Katherine Nautiyal
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Dissertation: "Epistemic Mentalizing and Causal Cognition Across Agents and Objects"
Advisor: Jonathan Phillips
Program: Cognitive Neuroscience
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Dissertation: "What Makes Conversation Good? How Responsivity, Topics, and Insider Language Predict Feelings of Connection"
Advisor: Thalia Wheatley
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences