William A. Cunningham The Ohio State University What is the focus of your award-winning research? My lab seeks to understand the cognitive and motivational processes underlying evaluative responses and emotion. Our work suggests that current

Sian Beilock University of Chicago What is the focus of your award-winning research? The core of my research is based on the analysis of skilled performance in stressful academic situations. The types of stressors I

Jason Mitchell Harvard University What is the focus of your award-winning research? Over the past several years, our work has focused on the question of how humans understand other minds. Social behavior depends critically on

Elizabeth A. Kensinger Boston College What is the focus of your award-winning research? My research focuses on how the emotional content of information affects the way we remember it. My laboratory members and I are

Michael J. Frank Brown University What is the focus of your award-winning research? I study the neural and computational mechanisms of simple forms of learning and decision making, and how these mechanisms also contribute to

James Coan University of Virginia What is the focus of your award-winning research? The primary focus of my research has become the social regulation of emotion, with a strong emphasis on the neural systems that