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    Speaker Profile

    Kevin N. Ochsner, PhD

    Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology; Director, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) Lab, Columbia University; Co-Author, “Evidence That Default Network Connectivity During Rest Consolidates Social Information” (2018, Cerebral Cortex), “From Striving to Thriving in the Face of Threats: The Emerging Science of Emotion Regulation Training” (2018, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences), “Social Networks in the Brain” (2017, Nature Human Behaviour), and “Social Cognition as Reinforcement Learning” (2016, Cognitive Neuroscience)

    Kevin N.Ochsner, PhD

    Past Talks

    Teaching Social Brains
    Strategies to Promote Student Connections, Collaboration, Cooperation, and Belonging
    How Early Experiences Mold Learners
    The Sheraton NY Times Square, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
    April 21-23, 2023
    Schooling Social Brains
    Promoting Social Skills, Interactions,
    and Collaborations in a Digital Age
    Keynote III (Option B):
    The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY
    May 03-05, 2019