Social and Affective Neuroscience

Leah Somerville is the Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. She received a PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and completed postdoctoral training at the...

Ellen Langer earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in Social and Clinical Psychology and joined the faculty at Harvard in 1977. In 1981, she became the first woman tenured in Harvard's Department of Psychology.

She is considered the mother of mindfulness and...