Principal Investigator
Regan Bernhard
bernharr@bc.edu
Regan is a lecturer at Boston College where she teaches courses on judgment and decision-making, neurodevelopment, and research methods, and oversees the Bernhard Lab. Prior to joining the faculty at BC, Regan was a postdoctoral fellow in the cognitive sciences department at Dartmouth College, working with Jonathan Phillips, and in the psychology department at Harvard University, working with Fiery Cushman and Josh Greene. Regan received her BA in psychology and Spanish from Wellesley College and her PhD in psychology from Harvard.
Lab Manager
Grace Kern
kernga@bc.edu
Grace is a senior majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Global Public Health, and her research interests include the role of hypothetical thinking in decision-making and the role and value of suffering in punishment.
Lab Members
Avery Boniface
Avery is a senior majoring in Neuroscience and she is completing a senior thesis in the lab this year on the role of trust and social learning in decision-making.
Vikrum Singh
Vikrum is a senior majoring in Neuroscience. As part of his senior thesis, his research focuses on studying the response to extortionate behavior in game settings.
Harold Wang
Harold is a junior majoring in Psychology B.S. and Economics. Harold’s research interests include moral judgement and decision-making and the perception of harm.
Kennedy Kalinowski
Kennedy is a senior majoring in Neuroscience and her research interests include perceptions of witnesses and neuroscience and the law. She is currently investigating the impact of witness voice pitch on perceptions of their credibility and the accuracy with which their testimony is recalled.
Aveline Roderick
Aveline is a junior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Global Public Health and Environmental Studies. She is completing a Senior Honors Thesis with the lab next year, and she is particularly interested in moral judgments as well as healthcare and environmental decision-making.
Moira Dinkins
Moira is a senior majoring in Neuroscience. She is completing a senior thesis in the lab investigating implicit bias and interracial relationships. Her research interests include implicit bias towards and explicit feelings about interracial relationships.
Anna Kirkpatrick
Anna is a senior majoring in Neuroscience with a Management & Leadership Minor. Anna’s research interests include the neural instantiation of hypothetical and counterfactual thought.
Juliana Dudziak
Juliana is a senior majoring in Neuroscience. Juliana’s research interests currently lay at the intersection of ethics, social behavior, and social justice, viewed through the lens of psychology and neuroscience. She is also generally interested in mental health and gender studies.
Alyssa Bruno
Alyssa is a junior majoring in Psychology and her research interests include judgment and decision-making, biases in the media, signals of authority in the media, and the phenomenon of fake news.
Jasmine Maturana
Jasmine is a junior majoring in Neuroscience. Jasmine’s research interests include the questions: How are low-income first-generation students affected psychologically, spiritually, and socially, in American universities? Does passed down familial traumas and hardships affect performance in university? How so? How do disparities in the starting lines we are born into, or how much we start off with in our cup of life, affect us when we are all placed in the same institution?