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Research focus¶

My research focuses on the cognitive and neural representation of other people’s personality and mental states. In particular, I am interested in how people spontaneously infer personality traits from minimal social information and in using neuroimaging methods to uncover (i.e. decode) the content of these social inferences.

A seperate line of research consists of characterizing the brain systems involved in self-regulation and its failure. Borrowing techniques from experimental social psychology, we’ve shown that inducing self-regulatory failure by having people regulate in one-domain (e.g. cognitive) subsequently leads to disinhibited neural responses to stimuli in other domains (e.g. emotions, food cravings).

I also maintain a set of tools for fMRI preprocessing, analysis and batching in SPM8 which can be found here (http://github.com/ddwagner/SPM8w)