Randolph M. Nesse, M.D.
Dr. Nesse is a Professor of Psychiatry, a Professor of Psychology, a Research Professor at the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research, and Director of the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program. He conducts research on the evolutionary origins and functions of emotions. A central goal of his work is to understand how negative emotions are evolutionarily adaptive, and how natural selection shaped the mechanisms that “keep our emotions in check.”
Dr. Nesse is one of the founders of the field...
James Gross, Ph.D.
Dr. Gross earned his bachelor’s in philosophy from Yale University and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading researcher in the areas of emotion and emotion regulation, and is well known for his innovative theoretical, and experimental analyses of emotion regulation processes.
Dr. Gross has an extensive program of investigator-initiated research, with grants from both National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He has over 120 publications, including Psychology (with Henry Gleitman and Daniel Reisberg) and the Handbook...