Dr. Brown completed his undergraduate degree at Furman University, and earned his Master’s and Ph.D at the University of Illinois. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, where he is researching social and emotional development early in the lifespan. Much of his research looks at the roles that fathers play in their children’s development, including their self-concept, emotion socialization, and attachment security. In his own words:

"I have a particular interest in fathering, and much of my research has explored the development of the early father-child relationship. Past work has examined the correlates of father involvement, paternal sensitivity, and father-child attachment security. Relatedly, I have also explored aspects of triadic (mother, father, and child) family interactions as important contexts for adaptive family functioning and child development. I am also interested in the role that family relationships play in the development of young children’s self-concepts. My current research is examining father-child relationships, emotion socialization, and children’s representations of attachment figures in diverse populations, with a particular focus on African American families in resource-poor, rural communities."

Anne Krendl completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 1998, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 2008, and completed her postdoctoral training at Tufts University with Nalini Ambady and at Boston College with Elizabeth Kensinger.... Dr. Krendl uses a social neuroscience approach to investigate the mechanisms underlying stigma and social cognition ... across the lifespan. She is also using a neuroscience approach to tease out how stigmas about mental illness affect attitudes toward mental health treatment and how those stigmas can be reduced. In her brain-imaging study, she's looking at how participants' brains respond to the stigma associated with depression. She's particularly interested in how the participants' regulatory and affective systems interact and how that response correlates with their attitudes toward mental health treatment.

"My goal is to ultimately be able to come up with some way of easily identifying what the main drivers are for stigma for an individual, and come up with interventions targeted to them," she says.