Shawn Rhoads, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

"What social factors impact human welfare?"I approach this question by studying the neurocomputational basis of human interpersonal perception, learning and decision-making in social contexts, and emotional experiences that are shared (i.e., interactions with others) or vicarious (i.e., affective empathy). I examine sources of individual variation in these phenomena relevant to mental health and socioemotional well-being.I pursue this line of work with two primary goals. The first is to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the factors that improve or impair the well-being of the self and others across multiple levels of analysis (e.g., neural, cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal, societal). The second is to translate this understanding for direct application in medicine and policy.I am also an avid social justice, environmental, and open-science advocate. I have been involved with advocacy work for environmental sustainability and social justice on the local and national level.I am generally always open to collaborating on research projects relevant to my expertise and interests. I am also available for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops on various research topics and methods, including but not limited to (1) computational modeling (e.g., reinforcement learning, model/algorithm development, model simulations, model fitting), (2) neuroimaging (e.g., task paradigm development in PsychoPy, BIDS, pre-processing, univariate analyses, multivariate analyses, model-based fMRI), (3) statistics, (4) machine learning, (5) programming in Python, and (6) open science practices aimed at making computational training in neuroscience more accessible.

Listed skills include Research, Neuroscience, Matlab, Microsoft Office, and 41 others.