Social and Affective Neuroscience

Research in the Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (PI: Leah Somerville) integrates psychological and neuroscientific approaches to inform how brain development through adolescence shapes psychological changes in cognitive, motivational, social...

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...