Professor Ochsner received his B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Harvard University. He then went on to receive postdoctoral training in social psychology and functional neuroimaging at Stanford University with Dr. John Gabrieli. Dr. Ochsner’s research interests include the psychological and neural processes involved in emotion, pain, self-regulation, self perception, and person perception. All of his work employs a social cognitive neuroscience approach that seeks to integrate the theories and methods of social psychology on the one hand, and cognitive neuroscience on the other. In 2008, he was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.