Work in the SCAN Lab aims to further an integrated and mechanistic understanding of affect, self-control, and intelligent behavior at multiple levels of analysis: social, cognitive, neural, and genetic. Specific projects currently include research into emotion-cognition interactions, social reasoning, emotional intelligence, ego depletion, mindfulness meditation, personality, analogical reasoning, creativity, and impulsivity.
News
4/7/08 - Dr. Noah A. Shamosh successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation, "Individual differences in self-control: Relation to intelligence"
3/24/08 - Dr. Deidre L. Reis successfully defends her Ph.D. dissertation, "Mindfulness meditation, emotion, and cognitive control: Experienced meditators show distinct brain and behavior responses to emotional provocations"
Representative papers
Shamosh,
N. A., DeYoung, C. G., Green, A. E., Reis, D. L., Johnson, M. R., Conway,
A. R. A., Engle, R. W., Braver, T. S., & Gray, J.R. (in press). Individual
differences in delay discounting: Relation to intelligence, working memory,
and anterior prefrontal cortex. Psychological Science, PDF 
Reis,
D.L., Brackett, M.A., Shamosh, N.A., Kiehl, K.A., Salovey, P., & Gray,
J.R. (2007). Emotional Intelligence predicts individual differences in
social exchange reasoning. NeuroImage,
35, 1385-1391. PDF
Gray,
J.R., & Thompson, P.M. (2004). Neurobiology of intelligence: Science
and ethics. Nature
Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 471-482. PDF