Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yale University
Topic: Racism Among the Well-Intentioned: Implications for Intergroup Perceptions, Interactions, and Interventions
Abstract: This presentation considers the subtle ways that racism is currently expressed and identifies important social consequences of this bias. ...
Research Interests: Identifying brain circuit mechanisms for inter-individual variability in self-control; characterizing circuit-level pathomechanisms underlying self-control failure in impulse control disorders (e.g. psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, drug addiction); uncovering the cognitive and neural foundations for social norm-based cooperative behavior.
Research interests: Evolutionary psychology, evolution of sociality, psychology of cooperation and punishment, ecological rationality, psychology of foraging
Research interests: Moral judgment and decision-making; cooperation and conflict-resolution; the neural bases of high-level cognition (multimodal compositional semantics)