Congratulations to Our Newest PhDs!

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.

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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