Research

Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Participate

If you are interested to be a participant in one of the research projects, contact the lab manager or Dr. Jean Decety by email.

Currently, we are conducting several projects employing measures of brain connectivity, functional magnetic resonance imaging, high-density EEG, eye-tracking, and behavioral economics methods. All projects are approved by the University of Chicago Institutional Review Board, and participants are compensated for their time.

Current Projects

  • How and why moral conviction catalyzes dogmatism and intolerance
  • Impact of forced-displacement on children’ social preferences and social norms
    in the Sahel region of Africa
  • Assisted dying decision-making in medicine
  • How do we value human lives across the lifespan
  • Socioemotional processing in incarcerated female psychopaths
  • Impact of violence exposure and the mediating role of prosocial behavior on mental health of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Funding

  • University of Chicago Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior
  • National Science Foundation – Division of Social and Economic Sciences
  • The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts
  • The World Bank
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • US Department of Defense

Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
5848 S. University Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637