Dr. Jean Decety is a Professor at the University of Chicago and the College, with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry.
Jean Decety is the Editor of Social Neuroscience. He also serves on the editorial board of The Scientific World Journal and of Neuropsychologia, and is a member of the faculty advisory committee of the France Chicago Center. As of March 2007, he is the co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

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e-mail: decety@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 834-3711

Inbal Bartal earned an M.A. in biopsychology from Tel-Aviv University, where she was a student in the interdisciplinary program for outstanding students. She was also a research assistant in the laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience of High Level Vision led by Dr. Galit Yovel. Inbal is preparing her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (Integrative Neuroscience). Her interests also include the role of imagery and dreams, agency, identity and memory as well as perception of others in creating a sense of self.
e-mail: inbalb@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Stephanie Echols is second-year doctoral student in Social Psychology at the University of Chicago. Previously, she earned a M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.Sc. in Psychology at Mount Allison University, Canada. In addition, Stephanie spent time working at the University of British Columbia Pain Research Lab, led by Dr. Kenneth Craig. Stephanie's Master's thesis, supervised by Dr. Jean Decety, investigated empathy for pain and health stigma. Current directions in research involve exploring the relationship between empathy, sympathy, stigma, and racial bias.
e-mail: sechols@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Kimberly McCue received a B.S. in Psychology and Biology from Northwestern University, Chicago.  She is currently working on a M.A. in the MAPSS program at the University of Chicago.  Kim worked as a research assistant at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine for Dr. Mary McDermott researching the impact of peripheral vascular disease progression on quality of life as a result of increased functional impairment.  In addition, she also spent a summer as a clinical intern at Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago, working with children and adolescents who have social, emotional and behavioral issues.
email: kmccue@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Kalina Michalska is a Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Chicago. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Boston University. Prior to joining the doctoral program, she did research with Dr. Larry Gray in the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Children’s Hospital investigating the biological markers for early regulatory processes in infancy. Kalina is involved in functional MRI studies of empathy and theory of mind with children and adolescents with aggressive conduct disorder.
email: kalina@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Eric Porges received his B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA). Eric researched Traumatic Brain Injury at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Center for Cognitive Medicine.
In the SCN Lab Eric is involved in the design of the studies, the collection and analysis of fMRI, DTI, EMG & autonomic measures. He is a first year student in graduate school (Integrative Neuroscience).
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e-mail: eporges@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Laurie Skelly hails from Edwardsville, IL and received her bachelors degree in Neuroscience from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Her undergraduate thesis was an fMRI project which investigated the role of the amygdala in salience processing. After graduation she worked as a research assistant at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, in Hartford, acquiring and analyzing MRI data. She is now a second-year doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program, where she applies quantitative measures (including fMRI and DTI) to the study of abnormal social cognition in psychopaths.
email: lskelly@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-4661

Undergraduate students

Jacob Cogan is a third-year student at the University of Chicago.
email: jccogan@uchicago.edu

Whitney Hansen is a first-year student at the University of Chicago.
email: whitneyh@uchicago.edu

Jessica Hempel is a third-year student at the University of Chicago.
email: jleigh09@uchicago.edu

Jack Reeves is a second-year student at the University of Chicago.
email: jreeves@uchicago.edu

Alexander Otti from Munich University Medical School, Munich, Germany.
email: alexander.Otti@web.de

They will join the Lab soon

Dr. Maiko Fujimori (Ph.D.) from the National Cancer Center Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.

Dr. Catherine Clumeck (M.D.) from the Psychiatric Department at Erasme Academic Hospital-ULB, Belgium.

Our collaborators

SCNL alumni