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Director


TEDxCharlottesville
James A. Coan, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
102 Gilmer Hall
P.O. Box 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Phone: (434) 243-2322
Email: jcoan@virginia.edu

Dr. James Coan is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Virginia. Dr. Coan has consulted for clinicians, businesses and researchers, working with groups as diverse as the Oregon Social Learning Centerthe Anna Freud Center, the Kurt Lewin Institute, and the Community of Democracies. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Emotion Elicitation and Assessment and has authored more than eighty peer-reviewed articles. His work has been covered in Science, Nature, the New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, NPRThe Today Show, and other major media outlets.  Dr. Coan received the inaugural Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science, and the Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions from the Society for Psychophysiological Research. He has appeared as an expert for several episodes of National Geographic’s Brain Games, is a fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, produces the podcast Circle of Willis, and serves as Chief Scientific Advisor at Movius Consulting.

Graduate Students

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VAN LAB Alumni

Lane Beckes
Senior Reseach Consulting Professional
Humana
Allison Belkowitz
Graduate Student
University of Virginia
Casey Brown
Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
Joanna Chango
Clinical Psychologist
Private Practice
Marlen Z. Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Blair Gross
Assistant Professor
Randolph College
Karen Hasselmo
Graduate Student
University of Arizona
Vanessa Lobue
Associate Professor
Rutgers University
Janetta Lun
Section Chief SBSS
National Institute on Aging
Erin Maresh
Research Psychologist
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress
Department of Psychiatry
Uniformed Services University
Sara Medina-Devilliers
Instructor in Psychiatry
Boston Children’s Hospital
Erin Miga
Clinical Psychologist
Private Practice
Nauder Namaky
Sub-investigator and rater
Adams Clinical
Finn Roberts
Senior Data Analyst
Institute for Social Research and Data
Hillary Schaefer
Clinical Psychologist
Private Practice
Mandy Steiner
Psychologist
ELM Psychological Services Center
Justin Storbeck
Department of Psychology
Queens College, NY

Friends and Collaborators

John J.B. AllenJoseph P. AllenGerald Clore

Sheila Crowell

Richard Davidson

Judy DeLoache

Tsachi Ein-Dor

John Gottman

Jonathan Haidt

Eddie Harmon-Jones

Julianne Holt-Lunstad

Hans IJzerman

Susan Johnson

James Morris

Hal Movius

Robin Nusslock

Dennis Proffitt

Harry Reis

David Sbarra

Helen Storey

Tim Salomans