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Robert Rydell
Indiana University Bloomington, USA http://psych.indiana.edu/faculty/pages/rydell.asp What does your research focus on? I am currently engaged in two distinct lines of research. Members of my lab and I have been most interested recently in stereotype threat (individuals’ worries about confirming negative stereotypes about their ingroup). We have been examining the negative impact the pejorative stereotype that “women are bad at math” has on women’s mathematical learning, incidental learning, and executive functioning.
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Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
University of Southern California – Brain and Creativity Institute and the Rossier School of Education www-bcf.usc.edu/~immordin/ What does your research focus on? I use an interdisciplinary approach that combines affective and social neuroscience, human development psychology, and educational psychology. My research has two branches: One focuses on the development of psychological, neural, and psychophysiological bases of social emotion, social learning, and self across cultures; the other focuses on translating and applying the results of this research within educational contexts. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you?
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Shayne Loft
University of Western Australia, Australia http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/shayne.loft What does your research focus on? My research goal is to conduct theory-driven research to uncover the mechanisms that underlie human performance in safety-critical work contexts. My general approach is to observe performance in complex work systems (e.g., air traffic control, submarine track management, piloting) and take these insights back into the laboratory, bringing them under experimental control. This laboratory research is complemented by field research and consultancy.
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Malia Mason
Columbia University, USA http://www.maliamason.com/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on two distinct areas of inquiry. First, I examine how the mind manages itself, with a particular focus on understanding how people intuitively decide where to channel their attention, how deeply to process information, and when to shift their attention elsewhere. My second line of research is devoted to exploring one key task that occupies, and indeed requires, much of human attention: understanding other people. In this area, I document and analyze the tactics that people use to understand and explain the attitudes and behavior of others.
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Stephanie Ortigue
Syracuse University, USA http://thecollege.syr.edu/profiles/pages/ortigue-stephanie.html What does your research focus on? My general research area is at the intersection of psychology and cognitive and social neuroscience in health and neurological disease. Combining different high-resolution brain imaging techniques with psychophysics, my research focuses on body language, unconscious effects of pair-bonding (such as love) on embodied cognition, and the role of the mirror neuron system in understanding desires, intentions and actions of other people while in social settings.
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Lisa Zadro
University of Sydney, Australia http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/staff/lisaz/ What does your research focus on? My research focuses on ostracism, the act of being excluded and ignored. I literally get to ignore people for a living. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? I come from a long line of ostracism-wielding, Italian women. No-one (and I say this with love) can ostracize quite like an Italian woman. It’s in our blood. Up until my early twenties, I thought that it was completely normal to sever all connections to someone (and their loved ones…and their pets), possibly for the next decade or so if they had crossed you in some way.
