Jean Decety is Irving B. Harris Professor at the University of Chicago and its College, with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychology and a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience. Decety is the co-director of the Brain Research Imaging Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

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e-mail: decety [AT] uchicago.edu

Inbal Bartal earned an M.S. 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). She investigates the neural and computational mechanisms uderpinning empathy and prosocial behavior in rats.

e-mail: inbalb@uchicago.edu

Stephanie Echols is fourth-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 investigates, with fMRI and ERPs, empathy and health stigma as well as the relationship between empathy, empathic concern, prosocial behavior, stigma, and racial bias.

e-mail: sechols@uchicago.edu

Maiko Fujimori was awarded a Ph.D. (Neuropsychology) from Wasada University in Japan in 2005. She worked as a clinical neuropsychologist at the National Cancer Center Hospital East in Chiba, Japan. In the SCNL and in Tokyo, Maiko is currently studying empatic concern in physician-patients relationship and how empathy can be promoted in medical students and physicians. She uses functional MRI, eye-tracking, and autonomic nervous system measures.

email: mfujimor@east.ncc.go.jp

Kalina Michalska was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (Developmental Psychology). Prior to joining the doctoral program, and after obtaining a BA from Boston University, she worked with Dr. Larry Gray in the Department of Behavioral Pediatrics at the U of C Children’s Hospital. Kalina is conducting functional MRI studies of empathy, theory of mind and moral reasoning with typically developing children and adolescents as well as children with aggressive conduct disorder.

email: kalina@uchicago.edu

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. Eric prepares a PhD in Integrative Neuroscience and studies the impact of arousal on social interaction and moral cognition, as well as the interaction between pleasure and pain with the use of functional MRI, eye-tracking, autonomic measures, hormones and electromyography.

e-mail: eporges@uchicago.edu

Laurie Skelly received her bachelors degree in Neuroscience from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. After graduation she worked as a research assistant at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, in Hartford, acquiring and analyzing MRI data. Lauire is now a fith-year doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program, where she applies quantitative measures (including fMRI and DTI) to the study of abnormal emotion processing in psychopaths.

email: lskelly@uchicago.edu

Jyothsna Suresh earned an M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engg from the University of Texas at Arlington.
Jyothsna is currently pursuing her PhD degree in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago.
Jyothsna develops functional and anatomical connectivity analyses.

email: jyothsna@uchicago.edu

Keith Yoder received a bachelors degree in Human Development from Cornell University where he worked with EEG and gaze-tracking in the Laboratory for the Neurocience of Autism. In June, Keith recieved a Masters in Social Science from the University of Chicago. His thesis was entitled "Individual Differences and the Moral Conventional Distinction." Currently, Keith is investigating the interplay between emotion and cognition in moral judgment with functional MRI and high-density ERP.

email: kjyoder@uchicago.edu

Undergraduate students

Francy Burns is a second-year student at the University of Chicago (Psychology).
email: francyburns@uchicago.edu

Isabelle Boni is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology).
email: iboni@uchicago.edu

Amanda Gallegos is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago (Psychology).
email: agallegos@uchicago.edu

Sara Lu is a first-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology).
email: sara.z.lu@gmail.com

David Mozdzen is a third-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology).
email: mozdzen@uchicago.edu

Talia Retter is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology).
email: tlretter@uchicago.edu

Ariadne Souroutzidis is a first-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology).
email: asouroutzidis@uchicago.edu

Carrie Swetlik is a fourth-year student at the University of Chicago (Biology and Psychology).
email: cswetlik@uchicago.edu

Lester Tong is a third-year student at the University of Chicago (Psychology).
email: lctong@uchicago.edu