People

Greg J. Norman PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology 

Email: gnorman@uchicago

Office: 306 Kelly Hall

Greg J. Norman, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies. His research explores the psychophysiology and social neuroscience of emotion, stress, and social behavior, using physiological, neural, and behavioral methodologies to understand how individuals respond to social and environmental stressors. 

Dr. Norman earned dual bachelor's degrees in psychology and philosophy from The Ohio State University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in Psychology under the mentorship of A. Courtney DeVries and Gary G. Berntson. He conducted postdoctoral training in Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago with John T. Cacioppo before joining the faculty in 2012.

Anita Restrepo

5th year PhD student in Integrative Neuroscience 

Email: ar277@uchicago.edu

Office: 202 Green Hall

Anita is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program at the University of Chicago working with Greg Norman. Anita completed her bachelors in Neuroscience and Psychology at Duke University in 2016 and went on to spend three years in New York City as a research assistant for the Child Mind Institute's Healthy Brain Network. She recently completed the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago. Anita is broadly interested in taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding social processes. She seeks to apply this knowledge to elucidate how psychosocial and biological processes can go awry in individuals experiencing psychopathology, with a focus on the role of [social] stress in the etiology and maintenance of internalizing disorders.

Sabina Raja

3rd year PhD student in Integrative Neuroscience 

Email: sraja1@uchicago.edu

Office: 202 Green Hall

Sabina is a PhD student in the lab broadly interested in exploring the biological and psychological components of emotion and sociality. More specifically, she is interested in investigating how stress and emotion impact an individual's ability to interpret social information. She has previously been involved in research centering suicide, mood, endocrinology, and specific phobia.

Elizabeth Gaillard

1st year PhD student in Integrative Neuroscience 

Email: egaillard@uchicago.edu

Office: 202 Green Hall

Elizabeth received her B.A. in Neuroscience with a minor in Literature from Hamilton College (‘23), where she completed an honors thesis investigating the role of parasympathetic activity, depressive symptomatology, and attentional deployment in affective evaluation of images. As a research fellow, she adapted and implemented an additional project examining how changing task demands govern the influence of implicit and explicit learning on behavior. Elizabeth is interested in how individual differences interact with the external environment to influence evaluative processes and the behavioral responses these processes motivate. She is particularly interested in the physiological phenotypes and environmental factors that promote more adaptive perceptions of and responses to stressful conditions.

John S. Morris PhD

Position: Post-doctoral Scholar (2012-2015)

Current position: Medical Science Liaison, Avanir Pharmaceuticals

Kasey Van Hedger PhD (2015)

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Time Perception, Interoception, and the Autonomic Nervous System 

Current position: Research Faculty and Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario

Elizabeth Necka PhD (2016) 

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Intrasexual Vigilance in Females: Social, Cognitive, and Neuroendocrine Mechanisms

Current position: Associate Director of Lifespan and Aging Research, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) 

Stephanie Dimitroff PhD (2018)

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Psychophysiological Responses to the Distress of Others

Current position: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Montana University

Karen Smith PhD (2018) 

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Individual Differences in Young Children’s Responses to Stress: The Role of Perception

Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark

Kelly Faig PhD (2019) 

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: The Psychophysiology of Social Behavior: A Focus on the Behavioral Immune System

Current position: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Hamilton College

Colleen (Wohlrab) Babington PhD (2022)

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation:  Psychophysiology of Motivation: Competing Social and Bodily Needs

Current position: Equity Research Associate at Wolfe Research, LLC Life Science Tools and Diagnostics

Frederica Rockwood PhD (2022)

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Individual Differences in Social Motivation

Current position: Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Emily Silver PhD (2024)

Position: Doctoral Student

Dissertation: Perceived Social Threat Across Development

Current position: Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago