Jamil Zaki Stanford University ssnl.stanford.edu What is the focus of your award-winning research? Emotions are interpersonal. When a person feels something, this often sparks a fundamentally social chain of events. People express themselves to someone

Jessica K. Witt Colorado State University amplab.colostate.edu What is the focus of your award-winning research? My research demonstrates that spatial vision is biased by action. Specifically, the way people perceive the spatial layout of the

Jay J. Van Bavel New York University psych.nyu.edu/vanbavel What is the focus of your award-winning research? Our research examines how collective concerns — group identities, moral values, and political beliefs — alter people’s perceptions and

Dean Mobbs Columbia University www.mobbslab.com What is the focus of your award-winning research? My research attempts to answer three broad sets of questions: What are the neurobiological and behavioral phenotypes that underlie fear and anxiety?