Sherry (Yueyi) Jiang, PhD.
Sherry is interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms that drive human emotional experiences, actions, and decision-making processes. Her recent investigations focus on characterizing various forms of loneliness and examining the emotions and individual characteristics associated with these experiences, with the ultimate goal of promoting emotional-wellbeing. Her methodological approach encompasses behavioral experiments and an array of computational techniques, including data mining and text analytics.
Jenny Yoo
PhD Student since 2020 She does research in aesthetic judgment and decision-making: how does the mind determine the aesthetic value and make various aesthetic impressions (ex. preference construction), and how do these affect related decision-making behavior? Currently, she is investigating how an agent’s ability to process information affects aesthetic preferences.
Zaiyao Zhang
PhD Student since 2022 Zaiyao’s research interests include emotion, consciousness, and social cognition. Her current project explores the role of awareness and empathy in the relationship between emotion and moral decision-making. She is also exploring how these emotional processes can be picked up by verbal and embodied nonverbal assessments.
Rouying Zheng: https://ruoyingzheng.github.io
- Przemysław Marcowski – postgraduate researcher. One of his current projects develops new technology for emotion recognition with the use of video and EMG technology.
- Kira Von-Kleist – PhD student since 2022. She studies synchrony and human attraction – a phenomenon of dance crush.
Lab manager: TBA
Lab Visitors:
- Julia Folz, (UvA/Leiden), Jenny-Charlotte Baumeister (Trieste, Italy), Boris Bornemann (Berlin, Germany), Giti Bakhtiari (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Marieke De Vries (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Natalia Frankowska (Warsaw, Poland); Michal Olszanowski (Warsaw, Poland), Marco Warth (Mannheim, Germany), Mario Reutter (Wuerzburg, Germany), Natalie Dalle (Clairmont-Ferrand, France), Robert Balas (Warsaw, Poland), Suzanne Oosterweijk (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Yaacov Shul (Jerusalem, Israel), Johanna Rohr (Mannheim, Germany), Ira Theresa Maschmann (Wuerzburg, Germany), Stanny Goffin (Maastricht, Netherlands), Josh Davis (PhD Candidate, Cognitive Science)
Collaborators:
- Kent C Berridge – Psychology and Neuroscience at University of Michigan
- Luke Chang – Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth
- Brian Knutson – Psychology and Neuroscience at Stanford
- Paula Niedenthal – Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Christopher Oveis – UCSD Rady School of Management
- Rolf Reber – Psychology at University of Oslo
- Norbert Schwarz – USC Dornsife Mind & Society Center
- Angela Yu – TU Darmstadt, Germany
Recent Ph.D. Alumni:
- Andy Arnold ‘22– https://www.andyjarnold.com/
- Evan Carr ’16 – was scientist at Exponent (Human Factors Team), now at Amazon.
- Galit Hofree ’15 – was user experience researcher at Verily Life Sciences, now at Google.
- Liam Kavanagh ’16 – director at Art / Earth / Tech Institute.
- Arseny Ryazanov ’19 — was at Patagonia, now at Netflix
Lab Alumni (PostDoc, PhD, MA, BA):
- Josh Davis, Troy Chenier, Tedra Clark (Fazendeiro), Julie Wilbarger, Aimee Reichmann-Decker, Lindsay Shenk (Oberman), Rachel Jansen, Divya Krishnakumar, Michelle Chung, Alyssa Vu, Joshua Lim, Jonathan Castelo, Paul Gurule, Christelle Gillioz, Brandon Tong, Eva Liu, Mark Marzoni, Milka Waniak