SIPPS is a program developed & run primarily by graduate students, postdocs, and staff in Columbia’s Psychology Department.
Core Team
CJ Concepcion is a PhD student in the Couples Lab. She is interested in the physiological mechanisms that underlie cross-group interactions and how we can mitigate potential socioemotional and health consequences when such interactions are negative (i.e., experiencing discrimination).
Ana DiGiovanni is a PhD student in the Couples Lab. She studies social support processes and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies (i.e., co-rumination) that occur in close relationships, especially during times of stress.
Camille Gasser is a PhD student in the Davachi Lab, interested in how our prior knowledge about the world shapes our ability to learn and remember new information.
Manasi Jayakumar (she/her) is a PhD student in the Aly Lab, interested in interactions between attention and memory, and the neural mechanisms underlying these interactions.
Arlene Lormestoire is a PhD student in the Davachi Lab, interested in how we leverage commonalities across distinct episodic experiences in support of new learning.
Christian Mott is a PhD student in the Social and Moral Cognition Lab. He studies how people learn and apply moral and legal concepts like culpability, punishment, and compensation.
Craig Poskanzer is a PhD student in the Aly Lab. He is interested in exploring how attentional systems modulate the effective encoding and consolidation of memories, as well as the mechanisms by which memory guides our attention.
Ben Silver is a PhD student in the SCAN Lab. He’s interested in how we learn and update our knowledge of the self and others, and how emotion motivates cognition.
Workshop Instructors
Our team of SIPPS instructors changes from year to year. The names below reflect instructors for SIPPS 2022.
Graduate Student, Postdoc, & Faculty Mentors
Our team of SIPPS mentors changes from year to year. The names below reflect mentors for SIPPS 2022.
Faculty Advisory Board
Participating Labs
Developmental and Affective Neuroscience (DAN) Lab
PI: Dr. Nim Tottenham
Couples Lab
PI: Dr. Niall Bolger
Shohamy Lab
PI: Dr. Daphna Shohamy
Davachi Memory Lab
PI: Dr. Lila Davachi
Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Lab
PI: Dr. Kevin Ochsner
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) Lab
PI: Dr. Dima Amso
Aly Lab
PI: Dr. Mariam Aly
Dynamic Perception and Memory (DPM) Lab
PI: Dr. Chris Baldassano
Social Cognitive and Neural Sciences Lab
PI: Dr. Jon Freeman
Living Lab
PI: Dr. Alfredo Spagna
Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Lab
PI: Dr. Randy Auerbach
SIPPS Alumni
Co-Founder:
- Anna Vannucci
Core Team:
- Paul Bloom
- Amaesha Durazi
- Claudia Espinoza-Heredia
Faculty Advisors:
- Dima Amso
- Caroline Marvin
- Valerie Purdie-Greenaway
Instructors:
- Catherine Bianco
- Paul Bloom
- Lisa Pegram
- Matt Sachs
- Hannah Tarder-Stoll
- Monica Thieu
- Tim Valshtein
- Margaux Wienk
Mentors:
- Paul Bloom
- Andrea Fields
- Matt Sachs
- Monica Thieu
- Tim Valshtein
- Anna Vannucci
- Margaux Wienk
Near-peer Mentors:
- Nicole Gavrilova
- Eleanor Hanson
- John Kerwin
- Nate Martin
- Anshu Patel
- Sapna Patel
- Anshita Singh
- Lauren Wilkins
- Jamie Zhang