Research Interests
- Emotion, motivation, romantic love
- Cognition, attention, memory
- Brain, event-related potentials (ERPs), functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Teaching
- PSYCH 2201 Psychological Statistics
- PSYCH 4349 Human Learning and Memory
- PSYCH 4350 Emotions and the Brain
- PSYCH 5468 Seminar: Cognitive and Affective Processes
- PSYCH 3390 Directed Studies
- PSYCH 7483 Directed Research
- PSYCH 7484 Directed Reading
- PSYCH 7491 MA Thesis Research
- PSYCH 7492 PhD Thesis Research
- Certificate in Neuroscience
Education
| 2010 | Ph.D. in Biological and Cognitive Psychology Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | M.Sc. in Biological Psychology / Neuropsychology (cum laude) Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | Propaedeutic degree in Psychology Maastricht University, The Netherlands |
Academic Positions
| 2021-present | Associate Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences Director of Neurocognition of Emotion and Motivation (NEM) Lab Member of Center for Neurodynamics School of Social Work and Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, MO, US |
| 2014-2021 | Assistant Professor in Behavioral Neuroscience Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri - St. Louis, MO, US |
| 2011-2014 | Postdoctoral Research Associate Cognition and Emotion Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US Principal investigator: Professor Luiz Pessoa |
| 2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Research Associate Generation R, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Principal investigators: Dr. Tonya J.H. White & Dr. Henning Tiemeier |
| 2009-2010 | Assistant Professor in Brain & Cognition Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2006-2009 | Ph.D. Student in Biological and Cognitive Psychology Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Advisor: Prof. dr. Jan W. van Strien |
| 2005 | Visiting Researcher School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales, UK Principal investigator: Professor David E.J. Linden |
Grants
College of Arts and Sciences, UMSL Pilot / Project completion grant Comparing parasocial love and real-life love: Event-related potentials and subjective experience Amount awarded: $1,500 Role: PI Fall 2025
College of Arts and Sciences, UMSL Undergraduate Research Award to undergraduate student Jazlen Rice Love & addiction in the brain Amount awarded: $1,000 Role: Mentor of undergraduate awardee Spring 2020
University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB) A comparison of love regulation and emotion regulation Amount awarded: $48,229 Role: PI Spring 2017
College of Arts and Sciences, UMSL Research Award Floor and ceiling effects in the up- and down-regulation of emotions Amount awarded: $12,400 Role: PI Fall 2014
Service
Administrative Positions
- Associate Department Chair, Department of Psychological Sciences, 2021-2025
Committee Member
- Treasurer of St. Louis Chapter of Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)
- 2017 & 2018 Program Committee of the Society for Affective Science (SAS)
- Undergraduate Research Award Committee, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Grant Reviewer
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- University of Missouri Research Board
- Graduate Women in Science
Editorial Board Member
- Cognition & Emotion (Consulting Editor) 2017-present
- Affective Science (Consulting Editor) 2021-present
- Frontiers Psychology (Guest Editor) 2021
- Emotion (Consulting Editor) 2015-2017
- SAGE Open (Article Editor) 2016
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer
- Affective Science
- Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Behavioural Brain Research
- Biological Psychology
- Brain & Cognition
- Brain Research
- Brain Topography
- Cognition & Emotion
- Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Cross Cultural Research
- Emotion
- Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
- Heliyon
- Human Brain Mapping
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
- International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
- Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
- Neurobiology of Aging
- NeuroImage
- Neuron
- Neuropsychologia
- Neuropsychology
- Neuroscience Letters
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Physiology & Behavior
- PLOS ONE
- Psychiatry Research
- Psychology and Aging
- Psychophysiology
- Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
- Scientific Report
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Social Neuroscience
- The Journal of Sex Research