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Sylvia Morelli
 Graduate Trainee - Social PsychologyAdvisors: Professors Naomi Esienberger & Matt Lieberman Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2007 Undergraduate School/Major: Princeton University & Psychology with a certificate in Neuroscience Email: smorelli@ucla.edu Research: My main research interest is empathy and perspective-taking. More specifically, I am interested in examining empathy for positive emotions between romantic partners. I would like to examine this question in a behavioral experience-sampling study as well as a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. By taking this multi-method approach, I hope to understand the basic processes of empathy and perspective-taking, as well as how these processes may affect relationship satisfaction and well-being. Publications and conference presentations: Falk, E., Morelli, S., Welborn, L., Dambacher, K., & Lieberman, M.D. (2009, March). Neural Bases of Message Propogation. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Morelli, S., Geula, E., & Lieberman, M.D. (2009, February). The Effects of Perspective-Taking on Perceptions of Fairness. Poster presented at the Emotion Pre-Conference of the 10th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, Tampa, Florida. Greene, J.D., Morelli, S.A., Lowenberg, K., Nystrom, L.E., & Cohen, J.D. (2008). Cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment. Cognition, 107, 1144-1155. Ram, N., Morelli, S., Lindberg, C., & Carstensen, L. L. (2008). From static to dynamic: The ongoing dialectic about human development. Invited chapter in K. W. Schaie & R. P. Abeles (Eds.), Social structures and aging individual: Continuing challenges. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company. Morelli, S., Joormann, J., Turan, B., Gotlib, I., Carstensen, L. (2006). Age Differences in Emotion Recognition. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX. Honors and awards: NSF Training Grant in Interdisciplinary Relationship Science, 2008-2009 UCLA Graduate Division Summer Research Award, 2008 University Fellowship, UCLA, Fall 2007- Spring 2008 Don Betterton Unsung Hero Award (Princeton University Varsity Soccer, 2005) Current hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities: |
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