Ewa is a visiting graduate student at the ASP Lab, and a PhD candidate at IESE Business School in Barcelona. With a background in neuroscience and behavioral science, she is pursuing research that lies at the intersection of decision-making and the science of emotion. In particular, her current work is guided by two questions: 1) What is the role of affect in perception and decision-making? 2) How do we process information from the external world in the context of sensations from the body?

Alexandra is a third year graduate student with the ASP lab. As a Bachelor in Neuroscience, she enjoys looking at the connection between social behavior and changes in the body. Alexandra is interested in studying how awareness of body sensations is related to decision-making, affective/emotional experience, and aspects of thought.

Kristen is a third year graduate student interested in examining decision making, affective forecasting and sense making out of negative events. Specifically, her work addresses questions about accuracy in affective forecasting in relation to relevant individual differences measures such as emotional granularity and emotional intelligence.

Kaitlyn is a third year Graduate Student, with interests in emotion perception. Currently, her work is looking at how labels change people’s ability to accurately recall emotional faces. She is looking to potentially further understand how the familiarity of faces impacts a person’s ability to perceive emotions.

Tess is a first-year graduate student broadly interested in psychophysiology and emotion. More specifically, she is interested in the affective components of risk and uncertainty and how different individuals react to and resolve uncertainty under different conditions. Presently, she is investigating how emotional context impacts individuals’ responses to sensory uncertainty.