The SCAN lab uses functional neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study social cognition. In particular we study how people infer the thoughts, feelings and opinions of others (i.e., how we mentalize), how people understand the self and how people understand social groups and social categories.
Professor Jennifer Lerner and Professor Yuval Feldman's research project on Emotion and Legal Reasoning consists of literature review, assistance in preparing submissions to IRB, support in development of experimental design, running experiments at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, and data analysis. Read more about Emotion and Legal Reasoning
Description: We conduct research investigating the cognitive and neural basis of episodic memory—the ability to remember events from the personal past—and processes leading to memory distortions. We utilize cognitive and behavioral testing as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in healthy younger and older volunteers and individuals with clinical conditions known to affect memory processes, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Read more about The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Episodic Memory
The SCAN lab studies how humans understand the thoughts, feelings and mental states of other people. We employ both functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral methods to study the neural correlates and processes of social cognition. Read more about The Challenges of Understanding Others
This research project examines the physiological processes underlie behavioral responses to shifts in bargaining power and how variation in these physiological processes explains differences in individuals' bargaining. We are also interested in how anxiety mediates the relationship between media cues and foreign policy attitudes. Read more about Laboratory Experiments on Strategic Interactions