I am interested in how people use valenced (i.e. positive and negative) information to understand and divide the world and our experiences. I am the most excited when this is shown to be mood-congruent in some way! To do this I design behavioral experiments, use computational modeling (e.g. reinforcement learning and bayesian inference) and…
The goal of my research in the lab is to develop computational tools to examine mechanisms of change in psychotherapy and subsequently use these computational tools to identify and establish predictors of treatment response to specific psychotherapy interventions, ideally, such that they can be deployed in clinical practice. To achieve this…
Hello! I’m Branson. I’m interested in reward. In particular, I think about how much choice people have in the rewards they go after and experience. Sometimes I think people can shape what is rewarding to them. Other times it might be very difficult. I think the amount of control people have over what is rewarding to them ultimately effects what…
Hi, I’m Jamie. I am trained as a clinical psychologist and previously worked with adolescents struggling with depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Ultimately, I am interested in how we change our behaviours (especially in a therapy context) and how emotions, motivations, costs and rewards influence our decision-making and learning…
Hello! I'm Sevan Harootonian, but I go by Sev. I'm interested in studying mentorship and understanding the cognitive mechanisms that contribute to its success. One project I've been working on examines how people infer others' knowledge to determine the best way to teach them. I use Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian models to figure out what…
Hii, I'm Dan! :) I'm originally from Romania, went to college ('uni') in the UK at Cambridge where I majored in biochem and computational biology, and I'm now a second-year graduate student here in Psychology (I truly came a long way, both spatially and metaphorically). I am interested in how we learn from feedback and how that affects and is…
