Joan Chiao

Joan Chiao is an assistant professor of psychology at Northwestern University and an affiliated faculty member of the Neuroscience Institute (NUIN) in the Cognitive Science Program and Asian-American Studies Program. Dr. Chiao received her doctoral degree from Harvard University in 2006, studying social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. She completed her undergraduate work at Stanford University graduating in 2000 with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems. Dr. Chiao's research interests include cultural neuroscience of emotion and social interaction, social and affective neuroscience across development, social dominance and affiliation, and integrating psychology and neuroscience research with public policy and population health issues. -from loopfrontiersin.org