My research program seeks to understand how higher-order socioecological environments influence belief formation and how these beliefs are then integrated with sensory information, especially nociceptive information, to influence subjective experience. Pain is a personal subjective experience that can have an explicit environmental cause that can be isolated, controlled, and studied in the laboratory. Therefore, we begin our lab's journey with pain. If we can make these complex links across societal structures and clinical outcomes within a person's fMRI representation of pain, we can then move on to more abstract mental states like fear and joy with greater scientific confidence. 

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Supervisor

• Lisa M. DeBruine