Post on 06-Jul-2020
JOAN Y. CHIAO
International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium
1954 First Street, Highland Park, IL 60035
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2011-present Director, International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium
2006-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Affiliated Faculty, Neuroscience Institute (NUIN)
Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Science Program
Affiliated Faculty, Asian American Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Affiliated Faculty, Multidisciplinary Program in Educational Science
Affiliated Faculty, Technology and Social Behavior Program
Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Harvard University in Psychology, 2006
B.S. Stanford University in Symbolic Systems with Honors, 2001
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Social affective and cultural neuroscience
• Race and its influence on perception, cognition and emotion
• Psychological and neural mechanisms underlying social status and dominance
• Integration of psychology and neuroscience research to public policy and population
health issues
HONORS, AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
2015 Fellow, Society for Experimental Social Psychology
2013 SAGE Young Scholars Award, Foundation for Personality and Social
Psychology Research –In recognition for outstanding young researchers in
social and personality psychology research
2011 Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award
2011 NIMH Early Career International Travel Award
2006-07 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow
2003-06 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2005 John Merck Summer Institute: Biology of Developmental Disabilities
Allport Travel Funds, Harvard
George W. Goethals Teaching Prizes, Harvard
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Graduate Student Presenter Award
Hoopes Prize for Mentoring Undergraduate Thesis, Harvard
Mind, Brain, Behavior Research Grant, Harvard Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
2002-03 Derek Bok Distinguished Teaching Awards, Harvard
National Science Foundation East Asia Research Fellowship
2001 Harvard Center for Basic Social Sciences Math Fellowship
2000 Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Stanford
1999 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Major Grant, Stanford
1998 Symbolic Systems Research Fellow, Stanford
1997 Chappell-Lougee Research Scholar, Stanford
FUNDING
Lotte Thomsen (PI), Jim Sidanius (Co-I), Susan Carey (Co-I), Alan Fiske (Co-I), Morten
Kringelbach (Co-I), Joan Chiao (Co-I). A Relational Grammar of Social Life. Norwegian Research
Council. 06/01/2014-present. $1,009,878.
Dan Molden (PI), Jennifer Richeson (Co-I), Mesmin Destin (Co-I), Joan Chiao (Co-I). Genetic and
environmental influences on interracial interactions. Northwestern Family Institute.
09/01/2013-08/31/2014. $10,350.
Joan Chiao (PI), Jack van Honk (PI Consortium), June Gruber (PI Consortium), Ahmad Hariri
(Other Significant Contributor), Dan Stein (Co-I Consortium), Tetsuya Iidaka (Other Significant
Contributor), Norihiro Sadato (Other Significant Contributor), Bruce Spottiswoode (Other
Significant Contributor). Cross-cultural neuroimaging of emotion in South Africa, Japan and US.
National Institutes of Health 1R21MH098789-01. 09/01/2013-07/31/2014. $294,527.
Ying-Yi Hong (PI), George Christopoulos (Co-I), Ringo Moon-ho (Co-I), May Lwin (Co-I),
Jennifer Tong (Co-I), Steven Graham (Co-I), Michael Morris (Collaborator), Michele Gelfand
(Collaborator), Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks (Collaborator), Joan Chiao (Collaborator), Ming Hsu
(Collaborator), Brooks King-Casas Collaborator), Carol Dweck (Advisor), Mahzarin Banaji
(Advisor). Discovering the cognitive and neurological basis of cultural competence. MOE
Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2 grant. 09/2012-08/2015. $577,726.
Joan Chiao (PI), Shinobu Kitayama (Other Significant Contributor). Development of an
international cultural neuroscience consortium. National Institutes of Health 1R13DA03306501.
07/01/2011-06/30/2014. $100,000.
Joan Chiao (PI), Jennifer Richeson (Co-I), Judith Paice (Co-I), Vania Akparian (Other Significant
Contributor). Racial disparities in pain experience: Neuroimaging and behavioral investigations.
National Institutes of Health 1R21NS074017-01A1. 07/01/2011-06/30/2014. $419,375.
Joan Chiao (Co-PI), Narun Pornpattanankul (Co-PI), Jennifer Richeson (Co-PI). Winning the
unfair by turning down arousal. Northwestern Dispute Resolution Research Center. 06/01/2010-
05/30/2011, $5,000.
Joan Chiao (PI). Cross-cultural neuroimaging of the self. National Science Foundation (BCS-
0720312). 09/01/2007-08/01/2009, $189,284.
Joan Chiao (PI), Tetsuya Iidaka (Co-PI), Ahmad Hariri (Co-PI). Visualizing culture-gene
interactions in neural systems of emotion. National Science Foundation (BCS-0722326)
09/01/2007-09/01/2008, $125,000.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
3. Chiao, J.Y. (2018). Philosophy of cultural neuroscience. New York: Routledge.
2. Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C, Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.) (2016). Oxford Handbook of Cultural
Neuroscience. New York: Oxford University Press.
1. Chiao, J.Y. (Ed.) (2009). Cultural neuroscience: Cultural influences on brain function. Progress
in Brain Research, Elsevier Press.
Journal Articles
56. Chiao, J.Y., Li-S.C., Turner, R., Lee-Tauler, S.Y., Pringle, B.A. (2017). Cultural neuroscience
and global mental health: Addressing grand challenges. Culture and Brain, 5(1), 4-13.
55. Petre, B., Tetreault, P., Mathur, V.A., Schurgin, M.W., Chiao, J.Y., Huang, L., Apkarian, A.V.
(2017). A central mechanism enhances pain perception of noxious thermal stimulus changes.
Scientific Reports, 7(1), 3894.
54. Pornpattananangkul, N., Hariri, A.R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Komeda, H., Sadato, N., Parrish,
T.B., Iidaka, T. Chiao, J.Y. (2016). Cultural influences on neural basis of inhibitory control.
Neuroimage, 139, 114-126.
53. Mathur, V.A., Cheon, B.K., Harada, T., Scimeca, J.M., Chiao, J.Y. (2016). Overlapping
neural response to the pain or harm of people, animals, and nature. Neuropsychologia, 81, 265-
273.
52. Cheon, B.K., Livingston, R.W., Chiao, J.Y., Hong, Y.Y. (2015). Contribution of serotonin
transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) to automatic racial bias. Personality and Individual
Differences, 79, 35-38.
51. Chiao, J.Y. (2015). Current emotion research in cultural neuroscience. Emotion Review, 7(3),
280-293.
50. Pornpattananangkul, N. & Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Affect control theory and cultural priming: A
perspective from cultural neuroscience. Emotion Review, 6(2), 136-137.
49. Pornpattananangkul, N., Cheon, B.K., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). The role of negativity bias in
political judgment: A cultural neuroscience perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(3),
325-6.
48. Schurgin, M.W., Nelson, J., Iida, S., Ohira, H., Chiao, J.Y., Franconeri, S.L. (2014). Dynamic
patterns of eye movements during emotion recognition. Journal of Vision, 14(13), 14.
47. Mathur, V.A., Richeson, J.A., Paice, J.A., Muzyka, M., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Racial bias in
pain perception and response: experimental examination of automatic and deliberate processes.
Journal of Pain, 15(5), 476-84.
46. Bebko, G.M., Franconeri, S.L., Ochsner, K.N., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Attentional deployment is
not necessary for successful emotion regulation. Emotion, 14(3), 504-12.
45. Cheon, B.K., Livingston, R.W., Hong, Y-Y., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Gene x environment
interaction on intergroup bias: The role of 5-HTTLPR and perceived outgroup threat. Social
Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, 9(9), 1268-75.
44. Mrazek, A.J., Chiao, J.Y., Blizinsky, K.D., Lun, J., Gelfand, M.J. (2013). Culture-gene
coevolution of tightness-looseness and allelic variation of the serotonin transporter gene: the dual
influence on morality. Culture and Brain, 1, 100-117.
43. Cheon, B.K. Im, D.M., Harada, T., Kim, J.S., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J.M., Parrish, T.B., Park
H.W., Chiao, J.Y. (2013). Cultural modulation of the neural correlates of empathy: The role of
other-focusedness. Neuropsychologia, 51(7), 1177-86.
42. Chiao, J.Y. & Blizinsky, K.D. (2013). Population disparities in mental health: Insights from
cultural neuroscience. American Journal of Public Health, 103(11), e11.
41. Harada, T., Bridge, D.J., Chiao, J.Y. (2013). Dynamic social power modulates neural basis of
math calculation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6: 350.
40. Hechtman, L.A., Raila, H., Chiao, J.Y., Gruber, J. (2013). Positive emotion regulation and
emotional disorders: A transdiagnostic cultural neuroscience approach. Journal of Experimental
Psychopathology, 4(5), 502-528.
39. Cheon, B.K., Pornpattananangkul, N., Mrazek, A.J., Blizinsky, K.D., Chiao, J.Y. (2013).
Constraints, catalysts and coevolution in cultural neuroscience: Reply to commentaries.
Psychological Inquiry, 24(1), 71-79.
38. Chiao, J.Y., Cheon, B.K., Pornpattananangkul, N., Mrazek, A.J., Blizinsky, K.D. (2013).
Cultural neuroscience: Progress and promise. Psychological Inquiry, 24(1), 1-19.
37. Chiao, J.Y. & Immordino-Yang, M-H. (2013). Modularity and the cultural mind: Contributions
of cultural neuroscience to cognitive theory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(1), 56-61.
36. Rotella, K.N., Richeson, J.A., Chiao, J.Y., Bean, M.G. (2013). Blinding trust: The effect of
perceived group victimhood on intergroup trust. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39(1),
115-27.
35. Cheon, B.K. & Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural variation in implicit mental illness stigma. Journal
of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 43(7), 1058-1062.
34. Hechtman, L.A., Pornpattanangkul, N., Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Psychological constructionism and
cultural neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35(3), 152-3.
33. Gelfand, M.J., Shteynberg, G., Lee, T., Lun, J., Lyons, S., Bell, C., Chiao, J.Y., Bruss, C.B., Al
Dabbagh, M., Aycan, Z., Abdel-Latif, A.H., Dagher, M., Khashan, H., Soomro, N. (2012). The
cultural contagion of conflict. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences, 367(1589), 692-703.
32. Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Racial identification modulates default network
activity for same- and other-race faces. Human Brain Mapping, 33(8), 1883-93.
31. Mano, Y., Sugiura, M., Tsukiura, T., Chiao, J.Y., Yomogida, Y., Jeong, H., Sekiguchi, A.,
Kawashima, R. (2011). The representation of social interaction in episodic memory: a functional
MRI study. Neuroimage, 57(3), 1234-42.
30. Cheon, B.K., Im, D.M., Harada, T., Kim, J.S., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J.M., Parrish, T.B., Park
H.W., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Cultural influences on neural basis of intergroup empathy. Neuroimage,
57(2), 642-50.
29. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Computational cultural neuroscience: Implications for augmented cognition.
Proceedings of HCI International.
28. Lucas, H.D., Chiao, J.Y., Paller, K.A. (2011). Why some faces won’t be remembered: Brain
potentials illuminate successful versus unsuccessful encoding for same-race and other-race faces.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5, 20.
27. Bebko, G.M., Franconeri, S.L., Ochsner, K.N., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Look before you regulate:
Differential perceptual strategies underlying expressive suppression and cognitive appraisal.
Emotion, 11(4), 732-42.
26. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Towards a cultural neuroscience of empathy and prosociality. Emotion
Review, 3, 111-112.
25. Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Neural basis of social status hierarchy across species. Current Opinion in
Neurobiology, 20(6): 803-9.
24. Immordino-Yang, M.H., Chiao, J.Y., Fiske, A.P. (2010). Neural re-use in the social and
emotional brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(4), 275-276.
23. Chiao, J.Y., Hariri, A.R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Sadato, N., Parrish, T.B., Iidaka, T. (2010).
Theory and methods in cultural neuroscience. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Special
Issue in Cultural Neuroscience), 5(2-3), 356-61.
22. Chiao, J.Y. (2010). At the frontier of cultural neuroscience: Introduction to the special issue.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Special Issue in Cultural Neuroscience), 5(2-3), 109-
10.
21. Chiao, J.Y. & Mathur, V.A. (2010). Intergroup empathy: How does race affect empathic
neural response? Current Biology, 20(11), R478-R480.
20. Chiao, J.Y. & Cheon, B.K. (2010). The weirdest brains in the world. Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 33(2-3), 28-29.
19. Chiao, J.Y. & Blizinsky, K.D. (2010). Culture-gene coevolution of individualism-
collectivism and the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR). Proceedings of the Royal Society B:
Biological Sciences, 277(1681), 529-37.
18. Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Lipke, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Neural basis of extraordinary empathy
and altruistic motivation. Neuroimage, 51(4), 1468-1475.
17. Harada, T., Li, Z., Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Differential dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal
representations of the implicit self modulated by individualism and collectivism: an fMRI study.
Social Neuroscience, 22, 1-15.
16. Bridge, D.J., Chiao, J.Y., Paller, K.A. (2010). Emotional context at learning systematically
biases memory for facial information. Memory and Cognition, 38, 125-133.
15. Perrachione, T.K., Chiao, J.Y., Wong, P.C. (2010). Asymmetric cultural effects on perceptual
expertise underlie an own-race bias for voices. Cognition, 114(1), 42-55.
14. Chiao, J.Y., Harada, T., Komeda, H., Li, Z., Mano, Y., Saito, D.N., Parrish, T.B., Sadato, N.,
Iidaka, T. (2010). Dynamic cultural influences on neural representations of self. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(1), 1-11.
13. Chiao, J.Y., Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Lipke, T. (2009). Neural basis of preference for human
social hierarchy. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1167,174-81.
12. Kuhnen, C.M. & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Genetic determinants of financial risk-taking. PLoS ONE,
4(2), e4362.
11. Chiao, J.Y., Harada, T., Oby, E.R., Li, Z., Parrish, T.B., Bridge, D.J. (2009). Neural
representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex. Neuropsychologia,
47(2), 354-63.
10. Chiao, J.Y., Harada, T., Komeda, H., Li, Z., Mano, Y., Saito, D.N., Parrish, T.B., Sadato, N.,
Iidaka, T. (2009). Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self. Human Brain
Mapping, 30(9), 2813-20.
9. Chiao, J.Y., Bowman, N.E., Gill, H. (2008). The political gender gap: Gender bias in facial
inferences that predict voting behavior. PLoS ONE, 3(10), e3666.
8. Chiao, J.Y., Li, Z. & Harada, T. (2008). Cultural neuroscience of consciousness: From visual
perception to self awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10-11.
7. Chiao, J.Y., Iidaka, T., Gordon, H.L., Nogawa, J., Bar, M., Aminoff, E., Sadato, N., Ambady, N.
(2008). Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 20(12), 2167-74.
6. Chiao, J.Y., Adams, R.B.Jr., Tse, P.U., Lowenthal, W.T., Richeson, J.A., Ambady, N. (2008).
Knowing who is boss: fMRI and ERP investigations of social dominance perception. Group
Relations and Intergroup Processes (Special Issue in Social Neuroscience), 11(2), 201-214.
5. Chiao, J.Y., Heck, H.E., Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2006). Priming race in biracial observers
affects visual search for Black and White faces. Psychological Science, 17(5), 388-393.
4. Chiao, J.Y., Bordeaux, A.R., & Ambady, N. (2004). Mental representations of social status.
Cognition, 93(2), B49-57.
3. Lieberman, M.D., Chang, G.Y., Chiao, J.Y., Bookheimer, S.Y. & Knowlton, B.J. (2004). An
event-related fMRI study of artificial grammar learning in a balanced chunk strength design.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(3), 427-38.
2. Schacter, D.L., Chiao, J.Y., & Mitchell, J.P. (2003). The seven sins of memory: Implications for
self. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 226-39.
1. Golby, A.J., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Chiao, J.Y., & Eberhardt, J.L. (2001). Differential fusiform
responses to same- and other-race faces. Nature Neuroscience, 4(8), 845-50.
Book Chapters
25. Chiao, J.Y. & Blizinsky, K.D. (in press). Cultural neuroscience. In Matsumoto, D. & Hwang,
H.C. (Eds.) The Handbook of Cultural and Psychology (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press.
24. Chiao, J.Y. (in press). Cultural neuroscience: Mapping culture-gene interactions in the
developing social brain. In Wainryb, C., Turiel, E., Nasir, N. (Eds.) Neuroscience, culture and
development. Cambridge University Press.
23. Cheon, B.K., Wang, Y., Chiao, J.Y., Tang, Y.Y. (in press). Cultural neuroscience of dialectical
thinking. In Spencer-Rodgers, J. & Peng K. (Eds.) The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of
Dialectical Thinking, Oxford University Press.
22. Chiao, J.Y. (in press). Cultural neuroscience of emotion. In Fox, A.S., Lapate, R.C.,
Shackman, A.J., Davidson, R.J. (Eds.) The Nature of Emotion (2nd Edition). Oxford University
Press.
21. Chiao, J.Y. (2017). Cultural neuroscience of compassion and empathy. In Seppala, E.M.,
Simon-Thomas, Emiliana, Brown, S.L., Worline, M.C., Cameron, C.D., & Doty, J.R. (Eds.) Oxford
Handbook of Compassion Science. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 147-158.
20. Chiao, J.Y. (2016). Cultural neuroscience of the developing social brain in childhood. In Sera,
M., Maratsos, M., Carlson, S. (Eds.) Culture and Developmental Systems. Wiley Press, pp. 1-38.
19. Chiao, J.Y. & Blizinsky, K.D. (2016). Cultural neuroscience: Bridging cultural and biological
sciences. In Harmon-Jones, E. & Inzlicht, M. (Eds.) Social neuroscience: Biological approaches
to social psychology. Psychology Press, pgs. 247-274.
18. Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C, Seligman, R., Turner, R. (2016). Conclusion. In Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C.,
Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. Oxford University
Press, pgs. 371-380.
17. Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C, Seligman, R., Turner, R. (2016). Introduction. In Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C.,
Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. Oxford University
Press, pgs. xix.
16. Chiao, J.Y. & Mathur, V.A. (2016). Cultural neuroscience of pain and empathy. In Chiao,
J.Y., Li, S-C., Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience.
Oxford University Press, pgs.271-278.
15. Stein, D.J., Chiao, J.Y., van Honk, J. (2016). Cultural neuroscience in South Africa: Promise
and pitfalls. In Chiao, J.Y., Li, S-C., Seligman, R., Turner, R. (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Cultural
Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, pgs. 143-155.
14. Pornpattananangkul, N., Chiao, J.Y., Zink, C.F. (2014). Neural basis of social status hierarchy.
In Cheng, J.T., Tracy, J.L., Anderson, C. (Eds.) The Psychology of Social Status. Springer Press,
pgs. 303-324.
13. Mrazek, A.J., Harada, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2014). Cultural neuroscience of identity development.
In McLean, K.C. & Syed, M. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Identity Development. Oxford
University Press, Oxford UK.
12. Chiao, J.Y., Cheon, B.K., Pornpattananangkul, N., Mrazek, A.J., Blizinsky, K.D. (2013).
Cultural neuroscience: Understanding human diversity. In Gelfand, M.J., Hong, Y.Y., Chiu, C.Y.
(Eds.) Advances in Culture and Psychology. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK.
11. Chiao, J.Y., Blizinsky, K.D., Mathur, V.A., Cheon, B.K. (2012). Culture-gene coevolution of
empathy and altruism. In Oakley, B., Knafo, A., Madhavan, G., Wilson, D.S. (Eds.) Pathological
Altruism, Oxford University Press, pgs. 291-300.
10. Chiao, J.Y., Cheon, B.K., Bebko, G.M., Livingston, R.W., Hong, Y.Y. (2012). Gene x
environment interaction in social cognition. In Fiske, S.T. & Macrae, C.N. (Eds.) Sage Handbook
of Social Cognition, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, pgs. 516-535.
9. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing culture-gene influences on brain function.
In Decety, J. & Cacioppo, J. (Eds.) Handbook of Social Neuroscience, Oxford University Press,
UK, pgs. 742-765.
8. Chiao, J.Y. & Cheon, B.K. (2011). Cultural neuroscience as critical neuroscience in practice. In
Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds.) Critical Neuroscience: Challenging Reductionism in Social
Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Blackwell Publishing, UK, pgs. 287-305.
7. Chiao, J.Y., Hechtman, L., Pornpattananangkul, N. (2011). Cultural neuroscience and the
collective good. In Forsyth, D. & Hoyt, C. (Eds.) Leadership and the Collective Good, Palgrave
Macmillan, pgs. 49-69.
6. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Where does human diversity come from? In Brockman, M. (Ed.) Future
science: 19 essays from the cutting edge. Vintage Books, pgs. 237-247.
5. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Cultural neuroscience: Bridging cultural psychology and brain sciences. In
Kawashima, R., Sugiura, M., Tsukiura, T. (Eds.) New Frontiers in Social Cognitive Neuroscience.
Tohoku University Press, pgs. 15-58.
4. Chiao, J.Y. & Bebko, G.M. (2011). Cultural neuroscience of social cognition. In Han, S. &
Poeppel, E. (Eds.) Culture and Identity: Neural Frames of Social Cognition, Springer Press, pgs.
19-41.
3. Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Cultural neuroscience: A once and future discipline. Progress in Brain
Research, 178, 287-304.
2. Chiao, J.Y. & Ambady, N. (2007). Cultural neuroscience: Parsing universality and diversity
across levels of analysis. In Kitayama, S. and Cohen, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Cultural Psychology,
Guilford Press, NY, pgs. 237-254.
1. Ambady, N., Chiao, J.Y., Chiu, P., & Deldin, P. (2005). Race and emotion recognition: Insights
from a social neuroscience perspective. In Cacioppo, J.T., Pickett, C., Vicker, P., (Eds.) Social
Neuroscience: People thinking about thinking people. MIT Press, Cambridge.
White Papers
2. Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural neuroscience of intergroup relations. SMA White Paper "National
Security Challenges: Insights from Social, Neurobiological, and Complexity Sciences".
1. Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Cultural neuroscience of intergroup relations. SMA Conference
Proceedings for “Neurobiology of Political Violence: New Tools, New Techniques workshop”.
Essays and Book Reviews
5. Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Culture and the brain: Face value. Royal Society of Arts Journal.
4. Chiao, J.Y. & Mathur, V.A. (2010). The brain’s pleasure [review Pleasures of the brain].
PsychCRITIQUES.
3. Chiao, J.Y. & Cheon, B.K. (2008). On memes and martyrs: Neurobiological approaches to social
and moral behavior. [review of Social brain matters: Stances on the neurobiology of social
cognition]. PsychCRITIQUES.
2. Chiao, J.Y. & Bebko, G.M. (2008). Electrophysiology as a window into the developing brain
during infancy. [review of Infant EEG]. PsychCRITIQUES.
1. Chiao, J.Y. (2007). A new look at personality. [review of No two alike: Human nature and
human individuality]. PsychCRITIQUES.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Workshop and Symposium Organizer
Chiao, J.Y. & Cheon, B.K. (2014). Culture and emotion: Advances from cultural psychology and
cultural neuroscience. Symposium presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Chiao, J.Y. (2013). Culture and emotion: Insights from cultural psychology and cultural
neuroscience. Symposium presented at Society for Experimental Social Psychology.
Cagigas, X., Chiao, J.Y., Immordino-Yang, M.H. (2013). Advances in cultural neuroscience and
cultural neuropsychology. Workshop presented at the International Association for Cross-
Cultural Psychology, Los Angeles, CA.
Chiao, J.Y. (2013). Culture, neuroscience and social development. Symposium presented at the
Jean Piaget Society meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B.K., & Chiao, J.Y. (2013). The biological bases of intergroup bias: Bridging hormones,
genes, fertility, and the brain. Symposium presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LO.
Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing cultural influences on the social brain.
Symposium presented at the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society meeting, New York, NY.
Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing cultural influences on brain function.
Symposium presented at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting, Washington,
DC.
Chiao, J.Y. (2010). At the frontier of cultural neuroscience. Symposium presented at the Society
for Social and Affective Neuroscience meeting, Chicago, IL.
Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Cultural and developmental social neuroscience approaches to the self and
social cognition. Symposium presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
meeting, Tampa, FL.
Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Cultural neuroscience: Investigating cultural influences on brain function.
Chair, Symposium presented to the American Psychological Society meeting, Chicago, IL.
Chiao, J.Y. (2007). Cultural neuroscience: Visualizing cultural influences on brain function.
Chair, Symposium presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting, Chicago, IL.
Chiao, J.Y. & Ambady, N. (2005). Understanding the origins of social cognition: Insights from
developmental and neuroscience approaches. Co-Chair for Symposium presented at Society for
Personality and Social Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LO.
Chiao, J.Y. & Ambady, N. (2004). Culture and the brain. Co-Chair for Symposium presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, Austin, TX.
Selected Posters and Talks
Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural neuroscience: Closing the gap in population disparities in mental health.
NIH Science of Eliminating Health Disparities Summit meeting, Washington, DC.
Mrazek, A.J., Chiao, J.Y., Blizinsky, K.D., Lun, J., Gelfand, M.J. (2012). Culture-gene
coevolution of tightness-looseness and the serotonin transporter gene. Poster presentation at the
Association for Psychological Science meeting, Chicago, IL.
Hechtman, L.A., Hariri, A.R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Komeda, H., Parrish, T., Sadato, N., Iidaka,
T. Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Independence as a buffer for emotional distress: The effects of self-construal
style on MPFC and amygdala function. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
meeting, Chicago, IL.
Pornpattananangkul, N., Hariri, A.R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Komeda, H., Parrish, T., Sadato, N.,
Iidaka, T. Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Cultural variation in neural basis of response inhibition. Poster
presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B.K. & Chiao, J.Y. (2012). Culture-gene coevolution of parochial prosociality. Talk
presentation at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Chiao, J.Y. Cheon, B.K., Mathur, V.A., Blizinsky, K.D., Murray, M., Gelfand, M.J. (2012). Cultural
neuroscience of empathy and prosociality. Talk presentation at the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.
Mrazek, A.J., Chiao, J.Y., Blizinsky, K.D., Lun, J., Gelfand, M.J. (2012). Culture-gene
coevolution of tightness-looseness and the serotonin transporter gene. Poster presentation at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting. San Diego, CA.
Mathur, V.A., Cheon, B.K., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Culturally-shared and culturally-specific influences
on the neural basis of intergroup empathy for emotional pain. Oral presentation at the Center for
Culture, Mind, and the Brain Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Racial identification modulates default network
activity for same- and other-races. Poster presentation at the 18th Annual Meeting of the sCognitive
Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Mathur, V.A., Paice, J., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Racial prejudice predicts an own-race bias in pain
perception. Presentation at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, San Antonio, TX.
Chiao, J.Y., Hariri, A.R., Harada, T., Mano, Y., Hechtman, LA., Sadato, N., Parrish, T.B., Iidaka,
T. (2011). Cultural values predict amygdala response to emotion. Talk presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Ethnic identification associated with default
network activity when perceiving ethnic in-group members. Poster Presentation at the 4th Annual
Social and Affective Neuroscience Conference, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V., Scimeca, J., Park, H., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). The role
of culture on the automaticity of empathy: The modulating influence of interdependence. Poster
presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cheon, B. K., Bodenhausen, G. V., Chiao, J.Y. (2011). Implicit theories of the stability and
malleability of mental illness: Relationship with mental illness stigma. Poster presented at the
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Chiao, J.Y. (2010). At the frontier of cultural neuroscience. Talk presented at APS Cultural
Neuroscience Invited Symposium (Chair: Richard Lewis), Boston, MA.
Mathur, V.A., Paice, J., Chiao, J.Y. (2010). The effects of implicit racial priming on the relationship
between trust and empathy for pain. Poster Presentation at the 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of
the American Pain Society, Baltimore, MD.
Cheon, B. K. & Chiao, J.Y. (2010). Culture that ‘fits’: Activation of culturally-congruent goals
increases task-related motivation and enjoyment. Poster presented at the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J. Y. (2010). Minding
their pain: Cultural variation in mentalizing region activity for the emotional pain of ingroup
relative to outgroup members. Symposium presentation at the Social & Affective Neuroscience
Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Pornpattananangkul, N. & Chiao, J. Y. (2010). Hard work conquers all: The investigation of
distributive Justice. Talk presented and panel discussion led at 2010 Fulbright Enrichment
Seminar, Providence, RI.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J. Y. (2009). Cultural
variation in neural response within temporo-parietal junction during intergroup empathy.
Nano-Symposium presentation at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J. Y. (2009).
Culture and the neural basis of ingroup bias in empathy. Invited symposium presentation at the
2nd World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry, Norcia, Italy.
Cheon, B. K., & Chiao, J. Y. (2009). Cultural differences and behavioral correlates of implicit and
explicit stigma towards mental illness. Slide presentation at the Midwestern Psychological
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B. K., & Chiao, J. Y. (2009). Priming of shared and individual goals on achievement
motivation. Poster presentation at the Institute of Education Sciences Research Conference,
Washington, DC.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V. A., Scimeca, S., Park, H., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009).
Universal and culturally-specific neural basis of ingroup bias in empathy. Poster presented at the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Cheon, B. K., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Cultural differences in implicit and automatic attitudes toward
mental illness. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL.
Cheon, B. K., Im, D., Harada, T., Kim, J., Scimeca, S., Park, H., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Cultural
variations in the neural correlates of ingroup biases in empathy. Poster presented at the Cultural
Psychology Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting,
Tampa, FL.
Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Neural basis of intergroup empathy and altruistic
motivation. Talk at the Emotion and Social Interaction Nanosymposium of the 39th Annual
Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Cheon, B.K., Scimeca, J., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Empathic neural
response to living things as a function of agency and experience. Poster Presentation at the 16th
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Mathur, V.A., Green, E.A., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). The influence of religious beliefs on empathy.
Poster Presentation at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, Psychology of Religion & Spirituality Preconference, Tampa, FL.
Cheon, B.K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Cultural
variation in ingroup empathic neural tesponse within the temporo-parietal junction. Talk at the
Emotion and Social Interaction Nanosymposium of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Neuroscience, Chicago, IL.
Cheon, B.K., Im, D., Harada, T., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009).
Universal and culturally specific neural basis of ingroup bias in empathy. Poster Presentation at the
16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
Cheon, B.K., Im, D., Harada, T., Kim, J., Mathur, V.A., Scimeca, J., Park, H., & Chiao, J.Y. (2009).
Cultural variation in empathic neural response to ingroup and outgroup members. Poster
Presentation at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
Culture Preconference, Tampa, FL.
Mathur, V.A., Green, E.A., Chiao, J.Y. (2009). The influence of religious beliefs on empathy.
Poster presented at Religion Preconference at Society for Personality and Social Psychology
meeting, Tampa, FL.
Cheon, B.K. & Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Culture and stigma of mental illness: An investigation of
explicit and implicit attitudes. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology meeting, Tampa, FL.
Chiao, J.Y. & Cheon, B.K. (2009). What can cultural neuroscience teach us about mental health
and well-being? UCLA Critical Neuroscience conference, Los Angeles, CA
Chiao, J.Y. (2009). Dynamic cultural influences on neural substrates of self and social cognition.
Talk proposed to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, Tampa, FL.
Harada, T., Li, Z., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Differential neural responses within dorsal and ventral
medial prefrontal cortex modulated by self-construal style: an fMRI study. Poster presented at
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
Carlson, D., Harada, T., Lipke, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Cultural influences on neural responses
during scene encoding. Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Conference, Palo Alto, CA.
Mathur, V.A., Harada, T., Lipke, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Anterior cingulate cortex activation
predicts same-race bias in empathic response to perceived pain. Poster submitted to the Social
and Affective Neuroscience meeting, Boston, MA.
Perrachione, T.K., Chiao, J.Y., Wong, P.C.M. (2008). Influences of perceived racial identity
on human talker identification. 155th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France.
Cheon, B. & Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Culture and stigma of mental illness: An investigation of implicit
and explicit attitudes. Poster presented to the American Psychological Society meeting, Chicago,
IL.
Bridge, D.J., Choo, H., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Can race enhance perceptual awareness? Evidence
from the attentional blink paradigm. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society meeting,
Naples, FL.
Chiao, J.Y., Harada, T., Komeda, H., Li, Z., Mano, Y., Saito, D.N., Sadato, N., Iidaka, T. (2008).
Neural basis of individualistic and collectivistic views of self. Poster presented to the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Li, Z., Harada, T., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Self-construal priming modulates fusiform activity
during implicit self processing. Poster presented to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting,
San Francisco, CA.
Gayda, J., Tartaro, A., Li, Z., Cassell, J., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Neural basis of social perception
in a human versus virtual human. Poster presented to the Cognitive Neuroscience Society
meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Bebko, G.M., Franconeri, S.L., Ochsner, K.N., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Perceptual differences in the
use of multiple emotion regulation strategies. Poster presented to the Cognitive Neuroscience
Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Chiao, J.Y. (2008). From me to we: Building blocks to group preference. Talk presented at
the Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting.
Bebko, G.M. Franconeri, S.L., Ochsner, K.N., Chiao, J.Y. (2008). Sex differences in the use of
multiple emotion regulation strategies. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology meeting.
Chiao, J.Y., Harada, T., Oby, E.R., Li, Z., Parrish, T., Bridge, D.J. (2007). Distinct and
overlapping neural responses to social status and number in human intraparietal sulcus. Talk
presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.
Chiao, J.Y. (2007). From me to we: Building blocks to group preference. Talk presented at
the Jean Piaget Society meeting, Amsterdam.
Chiao, J.Y., Iidaka, T., Gordon, H.L., Nogawa, J., Bar, M., Aminoff, E., Sadato, N., Ambady, N.
(2006). Cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces. Poster presented at the Cognitive
Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Chiao, J.Y., (2006). Origins of intergroup relations. Talk presented at the Developmental
Perspectives in Intergroup Relations Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology meeting, Palm Springs, CA.
Chiao, J.Y., Savage, C.R., Rauch, S.L., & Ambady, N. (2005). Not all outgroups are alike: An
event-related fMRI investigation of the ingroup advantage for emotion recognition. Talk
presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington, D.C.
Chiao, J.Y. (2005). Mental representations of social status. Talk presented at American
Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Chiao, J.Y. & Guttentag, L. (2005). The effect of hand gestures on memory varies with content and
listener. Poster presented at American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Chiao, J.Y., Kenser, H., Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2005). Visual search for different race
faces: Effects of priming racial identity. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society meeting,
Sarasota, FL.
Chiao, J.Y., Adams, R.B., Lowenthal, W., Conway, M., Tse, P. Richeson, J.A., & Ambady, N.
(2005). Origins of human social hierarchy: Insights from developmental psychology and
neuroimaging. Talk presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting, New
Orleans, LO.
Bordeaux, A.R., Chiao, J.Y., Shusterman, A., & Ambady, N. (2005). Adolescent recognition
memory for same- and other-race faces and voices. Poster presented at the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology meeting.
Kenser, H., Chiao, J.Y. Nakayama, K., & Ambady, N. (2005). Priming biracial identity influences
the visual search for different race faces. Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social
Psychology meeting, New Orleans, LO.
Chiao, J.Y., Shusterman, A., Bordeaux, A.R., & Ambady, N. (2005). Adolescent recognition
memory for same- and other-race faces and voices. Poster presented at the Society for Research in
Child Development meeting.
Chiao, J.Y., Iidaka, T., Bar, M., Nogawa, J., Aminoff, E., & Ambady, N. (2004). Recognizing
emotions across cultures: Insights from brain and behavior. Talk presented at Society for
Experimental Social Psychology meeting, TX.
Chiao, J.Y., Nogawa, J., Aminoff, E., Bar, M., Iidaka, T., & Ambady, N. (2004). Culture influences
neural responses during emotion recognition. Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience meeting,
San Diego, CA.
Chiao, J.Y., Lowenthal, W., Adams, R.B., & Ambady, N. (2004). Gender differences in neural
responses to social dominance cues. Poster presented at American Psychological Society,
Chicago, Il.
Chiao, J.Y., Adams, R.B., Lowenthal, W. Tse, P. Richeson, J.A., & Ambady, N. (2004). Knowing
who’s boss: FMRI and ERP investigations of social dominance perception from the face. Talk
presented at 11th Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA. * Selected for
Graduate Student Presenter Award
Bordeaux, A.R., Chiao, J.Y., Shusterman, A., & Ambady, N. (2004). When acquired positive social
identities boost performance: A study of stereotype susceptibility. Poster presented at Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX.
Chiao, J.Y., Nogawa, J., Iidaka, T., & Ambady, N. (2004). Culture influences neural responses
during emotion recognition. Talk presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology
meeting, Austin, TX.
Chiao, J.Y., Adams, R.B., Lowenthal, W., Tse, P., Richeson, J.A., & Ambady, N. (2003). Knowing
who’s boss: Behavioral and neural investigations of social dominance perception. Talk presented
at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology meeting, Boston, MA.
Chiao, J.Y., Adams, R.B., Tse, P. Richeson, J.A., & Ambady, N. (2003). Neural substrates for
recognizing dominance and submission. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting,
New Orleans, LO.
Chiao, J.Y., Savage, C.R, Lowenthal, W., Rauch, S.L., & Ambady, N. (2003). Race affects neural
responses to emotional expressions: Evidence from ERP and FMRI. Poster presented at the 2003
American Psychological Society meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Chiao, J.Y., Lowenthal, W., & Ambady, N. (2003). ERP correlates of implicit and explicit emotion
categorization of same- and other-race faces. Poster presented at the 10th Cognitive Neuroscience
Society meeting, New York, NY.
Chiao, J.Y., Savage, C.R., Martis, B., Rauch, S. L., Feldman Barrett, L., & Ambady, N. (2002).
Neural correlates of emotion recognition for same- and other-race faces: an event-related fMRI
study. Poster presented at the 9th Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Golijarai, G., Golby, A.J., Race, E.A., Chiao, J.Y., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Eberhardt, J.L. (2002).
Differential processing of same versus other race faces in object selective fusiform region. Poster
presented at the 9th Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Chiao, J.Y. (2001). Towards understanding how humans recognize faces of their own- and other-
race. Talk presented at University of Southern California Conference on Race and Racism, Los
Angeles, CA.
Chiao, J.Y., Golby A.J., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Vaidya, C.J., & Eberhardt, J.L. (2000). Neural basis of
expertise for same- versus other-race faces. Talk presented at the 2000 Annual Society for
Neuroscience meeting, New Orleans, LO.
Chiao, J.Y., Golby, A. J., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Eberhardt, J.L. (2000). Neural basis of memory
difference for same- and other-race faces. Poster presented at the 7th Cognitive Neuroscience
Society meeting, San Francisco, CA.
INVITED TALKS
2018 AAGP Annual Meeting
2017 NIH Global Mental Health Workshop
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Biology Seminar Series
2016 NIH OBSSR Seminar Series
AAAS Technology and Policy Group
TU Dresden International Cultural Neuroscience Symposium
2015 International Convention of Psychological Science Conference, Amsterdam
2014 AAAS Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA
Interdisciplinary Lifecourse Approaches to African American Cognitive Aging,
New York, NY
APA Advanced Training Institute “Culture and Neuroscience” Workshop, MSU
APA Oppnet Meeting
NIH OBSSR Seminar Series, Washington DC
2013 Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Emotion Regulation Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel
Neuroethics conference, Tel Aviv, Israel
Jean Piaget Society Conference on Social Development
UC Davis Psychiatry Grand Rounds
UIC Psychology Colloquium
UIUC Psychology Colloquium
Interdisciplinary Lifecourse Approaches to African American Cognitive Aging,
New York, NY
University of Michigan Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience
38th Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology
APA Advanced Training Institute “Culture and Neuroscience” Workshop, MSU
2012 Emotion Preconference at Society for Personality and Social Psychology
International Neuropsychological Society, Montreal, CA
Association for Psychological Science Biology in Social Context Symposium
Kellogg Management and Organizational Research Speaker Series
Looking within: Interdisciplinary approaches to consciousness, Bangalore, India
Society for Research in Adolescence “Cultural Neuroscience” Workshop
SMA Speaker Series
Caltech Behavioral and Social Neuroscience Seminar Series
UNL Social Systems and Behavior Symposium Series
American Association of Psychopathology
Midwest Psychological Association Invited Talk
NU-Teach Course on Developmental Neuroscience
Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago
The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measurements and Interventions
Neuroleadership Summit
FPR-UCLA Culture, Mind, Brain: Emerging Methods Conference
Japan Society for Neuroscience Symposium, Okazaki, Japan
ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2011 International Society for Social Neuroscience Symposium, Shanghai, China
UBC Center for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture Colloquium
UIC Pediatric Brain Research and Intervention Center
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Neuroscience Symposium
11th annual HCI International-Augmented Cognition Conference
World Psychiatry Association-Transcultural Psychiatry Conference, Paris, France
USC Multicultural Symposium Keynote Speaker on Cultural Neuroscience
Stanford Affective Science Group
Hampshire College Culture, Brain, Development Program
Culture Conference, Moscow, Russia
University of Michigan Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience
FPR-UCLA Planning Workshop for Neuroscience of Culture Conference
Indiana University Social Psychology Brown Bag
Junior Science Café, Evanston, IL
2010 Jepson Colloquium for the Collective Good
UCLA Culture, Brain, Development Immigration Seminar
Northwestern Institute for Policy Research Colloquium
University of Chicago Business School Decision Research Center Colloquium
Northwestern Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer’s Disease Center
UChicago-UBirmingham-NU Social Neuroscience Conference
NYU Stern Business School Power, Status and Influence Conference
Center for Advanced Study Behavioral Science Culture, Mind, Brain Conference
University of Chicago Developmental Brownbag
University of Michigan Cultural Neuroscience Conference
UIUC Humanities, Neuroscience and Biology Workshop
American Educational Research Association (AERA) Neuroscience Symposium
NIMH Reducing Mental Health Disparities in the US Workshop
Swedish Embassy Center for Culture and Health Symposium, Washington, DC
American Psychological Society Cultural Neuroscience Symposium
15th European Conference on Personality, Brno, Czech Republic
University of Michigan Summer Institute in Cultural Neuroscience
KLI-IIASA Human Brain and Social Bond Workshop, Vienna, Austria
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging
AAAS Neuroscience and the Law Judicial Conference, Malibu, CA
NIH OppNet Basic Behavioral and Social Science Research Conference
NIH Neurobiology of Political Violence Workshop
Symposium on Studies of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Peking, China
University of Pennsylvania Center for Neuroscience & Society Public Talk
2009 McGill-FPR-NiC Critical Neuroscience Meeting
Cultural Memory Workshop, Konstanz University Germany
Northwestern Cognitive Brain Mapping Group
Boston University Clinical Psychology Colloquium
Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference, Hong Kong, China
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Social Psychologists of Chicago (SPOC) Meeting
Northwestern Clinical Psychology Brownbag
Northwestern Center for Science of Diversity
Northwestern Wildcat Days
The Enculturated Brain: Neuroanthropological Explorations Conference
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
National University of Singapore World Congress of Cultural Psychiatry, Norcia, Italy
University of Michigan Center for Culture, Mind, Brain
Nagoya University Department of Psychology
New Frontiers in Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Sendai, Japan
2008 NYAS Values and Empathy Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Rosalind Franklin Neuropsychology Colloquium
Lake Forest College Brain Awareness Keynote Address
Northwestern Annual NUIN Retreat Data Blitz
Boston Social and Affective Neuroscience Meeting
SPSSI Development of Intergroup Relations Symposium
Midwestern Psychological Association Invited Talk
Purdue University Social Brown Bag
UIUC Visual Cognition Brown Bag
Northern Illinois University Psychology Colloquium
2007 Northwestern Cognitive Brain Mapping Group
Northwestern University Social Brown Bag
Northwestern Annual NUIN Retreat
American Political Science Association Social Neuroscience Panel
Dartmouth Social Neuroscience Minary Conference
Beijing University Psychology Colloquium
NU Culture, Language and Cognition, Keynote Address
Northwestern Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer’s Disease Center
University of Chicago-Northwestern Human Neuroscience Meeting
Northwestern University Social Psychology Series
Social Psychologists of Chicago (SPOC) Meeting
2006 Northwestern Cognitive Brain Mapping Group
University of Chicago Neuroscience Roundtable
Northwestern University Social Psychology Series
University of Chicago Social Psychology Series
UC Berkeley Psychology Colloquium
University of Colorado Psychology Colloquium
Northwestern University Psychology Colloquium
Queen’s University Psychology Colloquium
Cornell University Human Development Colloquium
University of Wisconsin Psychology Colloquium
2005 University of Pittsburgh Psychology Colloquium
UC Irvine Psychology Colloquium
Martinos Center Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Series
Harvard Social Psychology Series
Yale/Harvard Social Cognitive Development Workshop
Harvard Social Cognitive Development Group
Harvard Developmental Psychopathology Series
2004 Harvard Cognition, Brain and Behavior Series
Harvard Mind, Brain, Behavior Seminar
Dartmouth Social Brain Sciences Series
Harvard Social and Affective Neuroscience Series
2003 Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies
Harvard Social Psychology Series
Harvard Culture, Emotion and Brain Workshop
Nagoya Psychology Department, Nagoya, Japan
2002 Harvard Social Psychology Series
Harvard Cognition, Brain and Behavior Series
Harvard Committee on Human Rights
2001 UCLA Social Psychology Series
UCLA Functional Neuroimaging Core
2000 Stanford Symbolic Systems Honors Symposium
1998 Stanford Sophomore Welcome
TEACHING
2011-2014 Instructor, The Cultural Brain, Northwestern
2010-2014 Co-Instructor, NUIN Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Northwestern
2009-2014 Instructor, Cultural Psychology, Northwestern
2009-2014 Instructor, Social, Cultural and Affective Neuroscience (Grad), Northwestern
2009-2014 Instructor, Social, Cultural and Affective Neuroscience, Northwestern
2008 Instructor, Social and Emotional Brain, Northwestern
2007 Instructor, Memes, Genes and the Mind, Northwestern
2006 Instructor, Social and Affective Neuroscience, Northwestern
2004-05 Instructor, Sophomore Tutorial, Harvard
Co-Instructor, Social and Affective Neuroscience, Harvard
2003 Guest Lecture, Introduction to Social Psychology, Harvard
Instructor, Good Science, Good Practice, Harvard
Guest Lecture, Social and Affective Neuroscience, Harvard
Instructor, Sophomore Tutorial, Harvard
Teaching Fellow, Interpersonal Perception, Harvard
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Social Psychology, Harvard
2002 Instructor, Introduction to fMRI Statistical Methods, MGH-NMR
Guest Lecture, Introduction to Cognition, Harvard
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Cognition, Harvard
2000 Creator/Lecturer, fMRI Practicum, UCLA
1999 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Psychology, Stanford
Creator, Social Neuroscience Journal Club, Stanford
1998 Creator/Lecturer, Arts as Service, Arts as Activism, Stanford
College Assistant, Understanding the Brain, Stanford
ADVISING
Visiting Scholar
2013 Michio Nomura, Ph.D. (Northwestern, Associate Professor, Kyoto University)
Postdoctoral Fellows
2010-13 Yoko Mano, Ph.D. (Northwestern, Research Fellow, National Institute for
Physiological Sciences)
2008-09 Radha Devi, M.D. (Northwestern, Intern at St. Francis Hospital)
2007-09 Tokiko Harada, Ph.D. (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University)
2007-08 Zhang Li, Ph.D. (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Capitol Normal
University)
Ph.D. Students
Dissertation Advisor
2007-2012 Bobby Cheon (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological
University, NSF EAPSI Fellowship (Korea and Singapore), MPES Fellowship, NU
Philip Brickman Endowment Fellowship, APA Dissertation Research Award,
SPSSI Grant-in-Aid, Salimetrics Best Student Poster Award, ICNC Student Travel
Grant)
2007-2012 Vani Mathur (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University,
American Pain Society Young Investigator Award, NSF Graduate Research
Fellowship Honorable Mention; NU Society, Biology, Health Fellowship, NU
Philip Brickman Endowment Fellowship)
2006-2010 Genna Bebko (Northwestern, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, Cognitive Science Fellowship, NIH T32 Fellowship)
Committee Member
2013 Alison Alden (Northwestern)
2012 Lisa Hechtman (Northwestern, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, ICNC Student
Travel Grant)
2012 David Sylva (Northwestern)
2011-12 Heather Mirous (Northwestern)
2008 Katie Rotella (Northwestern, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable
Mention)
2010 Sonya Sachdeva (Northwestern)
2010 Katherina Hauner (Northwestern, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University)
2009-13 Sherri Novis (Northwestern)
2009 Heather Mirous (Northwestern)
2009 Heather Lucas (Northwestern, Postdoctoral Fellow, UIUC Beckman Institute)
2008 Katherina Hauner (Northwestern)
2006-09 Andrea Tartaro (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Union College)
2006-07 Ming Liu (Northwestern)
Deidra Morrison (Northwestern)
Jade Wang (Northwestern)
Rotation Advisor
2010 Lisa Qu (Northwestern)
2009 James Anthony (Northwestern)
2008 Kate Blizinsky (Northwestern, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow)
2007 Donna Bridge (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University)
2006 Emily Oby (Northwestern)
M.A. Students
2011 Narun Pornpattananangkul (Northwestern, Postdoctoral Fellow, National
University Singapore, Fulbright Fellowship, NU URGC grant, NU CogSci
Fellowship, Winner of ICNC Student Travel Grant)
2011 Myriam Seifert, M.D. (Northwestern, Pité Salpêtrière)
2011 Marco Liuzza (Northwestern/La Sapienza)
2007 Tyler Perrachione (Northwestern, Assistant Professor, Boston University, NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship)
Undergraduate Honors Theses
2013-14 Sharon Kao (Northwestern, NU URG, Undergraduate Research Award Asian
American Psychological Association)
2010-11 Cindy Teng (Northwestern, NU URC grant, University of Pittsburgh M.D.)
Brandon Ng (Northwestern, CAURS Best Poster Presentation, UVA Ph.D.
candidate)
2009-10 Alex Russell (Northwestern, Underwood Fellowship & Katherine Krieghbaum
Fellowship)
Emily Kim (Northwestern, NU URC grant, UIUC Ph.D. candidate)
2008-09 Suegene Lee (Northwestern)
Joseph Lee (Northwestern, M.D. Rush College)
Amanda Armour (Northwestern, NU URC Grant, Yale M.A.)
2007-08 Jessica Gayda (Northwestern, NU URC grant)
Diana Carlson (Northwestern, NU URC grant)
Andrea Katz (Northwestern, UIC Ph.D. candidate)
2003-04 Hannah Heck (Harvard, Harvard Hoopes Prize)
Lisa Guttentag (Harvard, UPitt Ph.D. candidate)
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Researchers
2013-14 Michael Ferguson (Northwestern)
Emily Karpinski (Northwestern)
Vivian Wang (Northwestern, NU URG)
Sophia Sami (Northwestern, NU URG)
Sharon Kao (Northwestern, NU URG, Undergraduate Research Award Asian
American Psychological Association)
2012-13 Jessica Powers (Northwestern, NU IPR research intern)
Stephanie Santiago (Northwestern, NU SROP)
Emily Karpinski (Northwestern, NU IPR research intern)
Michael Ferguson (Northwestern)
Claire Morley (Northwestern)
Diana Chang (Northwestern)
Bora Yuh (Northwestern)
Vivian Wang (Northwestern)
Brian Lai (Northwestern)
Xavier Kirkham (Northwestern)
Vincent Wang (Northwestern)
Elizabeth Hall (Amherst)
Danielle Tilford (Harvard)
2011-12 Mark Schurgin (Northwestern, JHU Ph.D. candidate)
Anna Cibils (Northwestern, NU SROP)
Vernon Smith (Northwestern, NU IPR research intern, UChicago M.S. candidate)
Claire Morley (Northwestern, NU URAP)
Vivian Wang (Northwestern, NU URAP)
Tracey Haneman (Northwestern)
Natalie Blahunka (Northwestern)
Brian Lai (Northwestern)
2010-11 Mark Schurgin (Northwestern, JHU Ph.D. candidate)
Zhen Cheng (Northwestern, UO Ph.D. candidate)
Brandon Ng (Northwestern, UVA Ph.D. candidate)
Cindy Teng (Northwestern, NIH research intern/UPitt M.D. candidate)
Elizabeth Barfield (Northwestern)
Lauren Kahn (Northwestern, UO Ph.D. candidate)
2009-10 Jason Scimeca (Northwestern, Brown Ph.D. candidate)
Nilima Singh (Northwestern)
Emily Kim (Northwestern, UIUC Ph.D. candidate)
Wally Xie (Northwestern)
Zhen Cheng (Northwestern)
Brandon Ng (Northwestern)
Cindy Teng (Northwestern)
Rachel Salk (Northwestern, UWisconsin Ph.D. candidate)
Nikki Cohen (Northwestern)
Jennifer Baumgartner (Northwestern)
2008-09 Jason Scimeca (Northwestern, Brown Ph.D. candidate)
Kaitlyn Booske (Northwestern, NU Undergraduate Research Award)
Madeline Stark (Northwestern, M.D. candidate)
Nilima Singh (Northwestern)
Patrick Slevin (Northwestern)
Lela Waters (Northwestern)
Aparna Arjunan (Northwestern)
Emily Kim (Northwestern)
Hannah Wells (Northwestern)
Christian Alvia-Ramos (Northwestern)
Yesl Koh (Northwestern)
Alex Russell (Northwestern)
Kosi Oneyeho (Northwestern, Wash U Ph.D. candidate)
Amanda Herrera (Northwestern, NU SROP, Northwestern Ph.D.)
2007-08 Trixie Lipke (Northwestern, UW M.D.)
Ashita Gurnani (Northwestern)
Elspeth Green (Northwestern)
Judy Choi (Northwestern)
Namrata Patel (Northwestern)
Alex Russell (Northwestern)
Suegene Lee (Northwestern)
Patrick Slevin (Northwestern)
Nilima Singh (Northwestern)
Sohad Murrar (Northwestern)
Chris Warren (Northwestern)
Amanda NeMoyer (Northwestern)
Christian Alvia-Ramos (Northwestern)
Yesl Koh (Northwestern)
Kaitlyn Booske (Northwestern, UVA M.A.)
2006-07 Donna Bridge (Northwestern, NUIN Ph.D.)
Nick Bowman (Northwestern, NUIN Ph.D.)
Melinda Chan (Northwestern, UIC D.D.S.)
Xiaoxi Liu (Northwestern)
Sohad Murrar (Northwestern)
Vivian Crosby (Northwestern)
Tim Wright (Northwestern)
Jessica Gayda (Northwestern, NU Cognitive Science Fellowship)
Michelle Tsao (Northwestern)
Amelia Mutso (Northwestern, NUIN Ph.D.)
Marisa Luna (Northwestern, NU SROP)
2001-05 Andrew Bordeaux (Harvard)
Emily Stapleton (Harvard)
Lauren Thomas (Harvard)
Rachel Lee (Harvard)
Amanda Mulfinger (Harvard)
Pat Noonan (Harvard)
David Colby Reed (Harvard)
Margaret Barusch (Harvard)
Lindsey Powell (Harvard, Harvard Ph.D.)
Daisy Chiu (Harvard)
Azhar Richmond (Harvard)
Callie Watkins (Harvard, Cornell M.A.)
High School Researchers
2013-14 Vivian Liu (IMSA/Northwestern)
Evania Hong (IMSA/Northwestern)
Michele Meas (IMSA/Northwestern)
2011-12 Tessa Dalton (ETHS/Northwestern)
Jennifer Ren (IMSA/Northwestern)
Victoria Etherton (IMSA/Northwestern)
Eva Meyer (IMSA/Northwestern)
2010 Emily Cline (Northwestern)
2009-10 Jenny Chen (IMSA/Northwestern)
2008-09 Ranait O’Connor (IMSA/Northwestern)
Meena Iyer (IMSA/Northwestern)
Ankita Khandai (IMSA/Northwestern)
2007-08 Ranait O’Connor (IMSA/Northwestern)
Feiyang Ye (IMSA/Northwestern)
2006-07 Chantel Liggett (IMSA/Northwestern, Duke B.A.)
Sarah McPike (IMSA/Northwestern, Albany B.A.)
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2013 Judge, NU Undergraduate Research and Arts Expo
2012 Panelist, NU CogSci Interdisciplinary Science
2012 Member, NU Sneak Peek Organizing Committee
2011 Speaker, Evanston Jr. Science Café, Northwestern
2011 Faculty Fellow, Slivka Hall of Science and Engineering, Northwestern
2010 Speaker, Evanston Science Café, Northwestern
2008-10 Member, NUIN Qualifying exam committee, Northwestern
2009-10 Co-Chair, NUIN Graduate Admissions Committee
2009 Panelist, FREECS Truth about Graduate Publishing Panel
2008-09 Co-Chair, NUIN Graduate Admissions Committee
2007- 2014 Member, Northwestern Interdisciplinary Center for Science of Diversity
2006- 2013 Co-Organizer, NU Neuroeconomics, Social and Affective Neuroscience Meeting
2008-09 Member, Quantitative Psychology search committee, Northwestern
2008-09 Member, NUIN Curriculum committee, Northwestern
2006-08 Member, NUIN Admissions Committee, Northwestern
2007 Mentor, SROP for Undergraduate Minorities, Northwestern
2007 Co-Organizer, NU-UC Human Neuroscience meeting, Northwestern
2006 Member, Undergraduate Honors & Awards Committee, Northwestern
2002-05 Creator, Harvard Social and Affective Neuroscience Speaker Series
2004-05 Resident Tutor, Dunster House, Harvard
Non-resident Tutor, Leverett House, Harvard
2004 Co-Creator, Psychology Diversity Committee, Harvard
2003 Member, Committee for Undergraduate Instruction, Harvard
2002-04 Psychology Concentration Advisor, Harvard
2002-03 Non-resident House Tutor, Dunster House, Harvard
2001 Co-Organizer, Workshop on Culture, Emotion and Brain, Harvard
1998 Peer Advisor, Department of Psychology, Stanford
1998 Advising Fellow, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Conference Organizer
2013-present Member, Interdisciplinary Workgroup on African American Cognitive Aging
2011- present Co-Founder and Co-Director, International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium
2011-2012 Program Committee, FPR-UCLA Neuroscience of Culture Conference
2010– 2013 Co-Organizer, Cultural Psychology SPSP Preconference
2010- 2011 Program Co-Chair, Society for Social Neuroscience Conference
2009-2010 Co-Chair, Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Conference
Editorial Board
2013-present Consulting Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal
Relations and Group Processes
2012- present Associate Editor, Culture and Brain
2011 – present Associate Editor, Frontiers in Emotion Science
2011 – present Consulting Editor, Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders
2010 – present Consulting Editor, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology
2009 – present Consulting Editor, Social Neuroscience
2008 – present Consulting Editor, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2007 – present Consulting Editor, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
2011 - 2014 Handling Editor, Neuroimage (Social Neuroscience Section)
2011 – 2013 Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Guest Editor
2010 Special issue on ‘Cultural Neuroscience’ for Social Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience
2009 Special issue on ‘Cultural Neuroscience’ for Progress in Brain Research
Journal Reviewer
Aggressive Behavior
American Journal of Human Biology
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
American Journal of Psychology
American Journal of Public Health
American Psychologist
Asian Journal of Social Psychology
Biopsychosocial Medicine
Biological Psychiatry
Brain Imaging and Behavior
Brain Research
Brain and Cognition
British Journal of Social Psychology
Cerebral Cortex
Child Development
Cognition and Emotion
Cognition
Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cortex
Cultural Diversity Ethnic Minority Psychology
Current Biology
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Emotion
Encyclopedia of Consciousness
European Journal of Neuroscience
Evolution and Human Behavior
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
Genes, Brain, Behavior
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
Human Brain Mapping
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Journal of Consciousness Studies
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Journal of Experimental Psychology: LMC
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological
Sciences
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and
Economics
Memory
Mind, Brain and Education
Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Neuroscience
Neuroimage
Neuropsychologia
Neuropsychology
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Personality and Social Psychology Review
PNAS
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Bio Sci
Psychological Science
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Psychophysiology
Social Cognition
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Social Neuroscience
Social Psychological and Personality Science
Structure and Dynamics
Transcultural Psychiatry
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Visual Cognition
Grant Reviewer
Ad hoc panel member
National Institutes of Health: Basic Mechanisms Influencing Behavioral Maintenance (USA)
National Institutes of Health: Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes (USA)
National Institutes of Health: F12B Fellowship Panel (USA)
National Institutes of Health: Mechanisms of Emotion, Stress and Health (USA)
Ad hoc reviewer
National Institutes of Health: Cognition & Perception, Grand Opportunities, NRMN-P3 (USA)
National Science Foundation: CAREER, Cognitive Neuroscience, Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences,
PAC, REESE, Social Psychology (USA)
American Association of University Women Fellowships (USA)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada)
Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
Israel Science Foundation (Israel)
National Research Council (Romania)
Book Reviewer
Oxford University Press, Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Psychology Press
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association for Psychological Science
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium
Midwest Psychological Association
Social and Affective Neuroscience Society
Society for Experimental Social Psychology
Society for Neuroscience
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Research in Child Development
Society for Social Neuroscience
Vision Sciences Society
SELECTED MEDIA MENTIONS
New York Times, APA Monitor, Science Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Public Radio,
Livescience.com, Reuters, AP, Daily Telegraph UK, Newsweek, Science Daily, Eurekaalert.org,
Scientific American, New Scientist, US News and World Report, USA TODAY, Forbes, CNN,
Discovery Channel, Washington Post, Scientific American, ABC News, Boston Globe, TIME, San
Francisco Chronicle, PARADE Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Wired Magazine, Psychology Today,
The Economist