RESEARCH PROJECTS
RESEARCH PROJECTS
The ability to navigate social interactions and cultivate social bonds are central to healthy, adaptive development. The Laboratory on Affective Neuroscience & Development conducts research aimed at identifying brain-behavior mechanisms that underlie the development of externalizing behaviors, acts that are, by definition, directed socially outward and disruptive toward others. We utilize a multi-method approach that includes electroencephalogram (EEG), psychophysiology, eye-tracking, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and behavioral paradigms.
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Parsing shared and unique effects of underlying mechanisms (eg. inhibitory control, empathy, frustrative non-reward) on the development of externalizing behaviors
Identifying social and psychological risk factors for for political extremism and targeted violence
Probing real time associations between health behaviors (eg. sleep), inhibitory control, emotion lability, and externalizing symptoms and behaviors
ARE YOU A CUA STUDENT AND INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN RESEARCH?
If you are a CUA student you may be eligible to participate in research with LAND and receive monetary compensation or PSY201 course credit! See below for current research projects looking for participants.