Zhouzhou (Jo) He

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Jo is interested in how our social relationships regulate our emotional experiences in both adaptive and maladaptive ways. She received a B.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Computing from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining the SCAN Lab, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Dr. Naomi Eisenberger's Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, Dr. Matthew Lieberman's Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and Dr. Jennifer Silvers' Social Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab. Ultimately, she hopes her work can inform how we may leverage social relationships to improve well-being.

Eisha Haque

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Eisha is interested in how social relationships shape emotional well-being. Specifically, she is interested in investigating how social support influences emotion regulation. She received a B.Sc. in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto. Before joining the SCAN Lab, Eisha worked as a lab manager at Dr. Maital Neta’s Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she investigated social networks and emotional bias.

Emma Miller

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Emma is interested in how shared reality emerges in conversation and microcultures develop within close relationships. ​Her research draws from an interdisciplinary set of approaches across psychology, sociology, and computational social science. ​She received a B.A. in History from Brown University and M.A. in Psychology from New York University.

Nikhila Anand

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Nikhila is interested in how cultural and social contexts shape emotional expression and empathy- both in human and artificial intelligence. Her current work examines how sociodemographic backgrounds influence the therapeutic advice that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT provide, revealing how cultural assumptions shape algorithmic empathy and moral emotion in human-AI interaction. She received her B.S. in Marketing from the University of Central Florida and her M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University.