My academic background...
I spent a long time doing research in an academic setting. My interest in human behavior research started in College with a summer internship in a cognitive neuroscience lab. Upon graduation, I received a post-bac fellowship with the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University to work in a social neuroscience lab. After two years doing fMRI research, I became a graduate student in the Psychology & Neuroscience department at Duke. Then I did a post-doc at Duke's Initiative for Science & Society. That's EIGHT years of academic research!
Those eight years have been instrumental in shaping my passion for research on human behavior. I'm also proud of my accomplishments as a grad student...because, if you don't know, grad school can be a long and stressful process.
So, here is my academic background, summed up by Research and Leadership experiences.
RESEARCH
I was involved in research that allowed me to explore cutting-edge topics, including the psychology of legal decisions, virtual reality, and consumer neurotechnology. I got hands-on experience conducting brain imaging studies (using fMRI), quantitative studies (i.e. surveys and behavioral experiments), and qualitative studies.
Below are some of my academic publications:
Farahany, N. A., Greely, H. T., et al. (including Capestany, B. H.). (2018). The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue. Nature, 556, 429-432.
Harris, L. T., Capestany, B. H., & Tan, J. (2016). How next generation neuroscience technologies can facilitate comparison across cultural contexts and species: Implications for global health. In: J. Chiao, S-C. Li, R. Seligman, & R. Turner (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.
Capestany, B. H., & Harris, L. T. (2015). Stereotype content, in: Emerging Trends in the Social & Behavioral Sciences (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Capestany, B. H., & Harris, L. T. (2014). Disgust and biological descriptions bias logical reasoning during legal decision-making. Social neuroscience, 1-13.
Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., Capestany, B. H., & Cohen, A. O. Assigning economic value to people results in dehumanization brain response (2014). Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, & Economics, 7, 151-163.
Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., & Capestany, B. H. (2014). The cognitive neuroscience of person perception. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th edition (eds.) Michael S. Gazzinage & George R. Mangun, London, Englad: The MIT Press.
LEADERSHIP
I've engaged with all kinds of people during the course of my PhD and as a post-doc. I've worked in teams and independently, and have received awards and fellowships for my leadership and teaching outreach.
For example, I received a Certificate for College Teaching from Duke University, and the Bass Undergraduate Instructional Program Award, funded by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowment Fund. I was also part of the Emerging Leaders Institute at Duke University. You can read about my experience here. And I'm happy to be part of the Neuroethics Women Leaders Network.
I've had the opportunity to present my research outside of the academic community to a diverse group of people, including high school students, lawyers and judges at their continuing legal education sessions, business executives, and industry leaders.
Below you'll find a list of my teaching and speaking experiences:
Those eight years have been instrumental in shaping my passion for research on human behavior. I'm also proud of my accomplishments as a grad student...because, if you don't know, grad school can be a long and stressful process.
So, here is my academic background, summed up by Research and Leadership experiences.
RESEARCH
I was involved in research that allowed me to explore cutting-edge topics, including the psychology of legal decisions, virtual reality, and consumer neurotechnology. I got hands-on experience conducting brain imaging studies (using fMRI), quantitative studies (i.e. surveys and behavioral experiments), and qualitative studies.
Below are some of my academic publications:
Farahany, N. A., Greely, H. T., et al. (including Capestany, B. H.). (2018). The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue. Nature, 556, 429-432.
Harris, L. T., Capestany, B. H., & Tan, J. (2016). How next generation neuroscience technologies can facilitate comparison across cultural contexts and species: Implications for global health. In: J. Chiao, S-C. Li, R. Seligman, & R. Turner (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience. Oxford University Press.
Capestany, B. H., & Harris, L. T. (2015). Stereotype content, in: Emerging Trends in the Social & Behavioral Sciences (eds.) Robert Scott and Stephen Kosslyn, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Capestany, B. H., & Harris, L. T. (2014). Disgust and biological descriptions bias logical reasoning during legal decision-making. Social neuroscience, 1-13.
Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., Capestany, B. H., & Cohen, A. O. Assigning economic value to people results in dehumanization brain response (2014). Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, & Economics, 7, 151-163.
Harris, L. T., Lee, V. K., & Capestany, B. H. (2014). The cognitive neuroscience of person perception. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences, 5th edition (eds.) Michael S. Gazzinage & George R. Mangun, London, Englad: The MIT Press.
LEADERSHIP
I've engaged with all kinds of people during the course of my PhD and as a post-doc. I've worked in teams and independently, and have received awards and fellowships for my leadership and teaching outreach.
For example, I received a Certificate for College Teaching from Duke University, and the Bass Undergraduate Instructional Program Award, funded by the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Endowment Fund. I was also part of the Emerging Leaders Institute at Duke University. You can read about my experience here. And I'm happy to be part of the Neuroethics Women Leaders Network.
I've had the opportunity to present my research outside of the academic community to a diverse group of people, including high school students, lawyers and judges at their continuing legal education sessions, business executives, and industry leaders.
Below you'll find a list of my teaching and speaking experiences:
- Speaker at Banbury Center conference on the Evolving Phenomenon of Direct-to-Consumer Neuroscience [2018]
- Speaker at the Frank Dunham Federal Defense Conference [2017]
- Guest lecturer for a high school neuroscience summer bootcamp. Gave talk titled "Neuroscience in the criminal courtroom." [2016 and 2017 sessions]
- Speaker at the Center for American and International Law's The Mind and Criminal Defense Program [2016]
- Guest speaker at the Center for American and International Law's The Mind and Criminal Defense Program [2016]
- PSY490: Psychology of Justice (course eval, written eval) [instructor of record, 2016]
- PSY101: Introduction to Psychology (course eval, written eval) [instructor of record, 2015]
- Guest lecturer for a Cognitive Psychology course. Gave talk titled "Legal decision making in the brain." [2015]
- Graduate mentor for Duke's Winter Forum "To Catch a Killer: Investigating the Brain" [2015]
- PSY212: Forensic Psychology [teaching assistant, 2015]
- Tutor for the Duke Athletics Department [2014-2015]
- Fuqua Business Course: Managerial Effectiveness: Leadership, Ethics, and Organizations for Business Executives [teaching assistant, 2014]
- Guest lecturer for a Social Psychology course. Gave talk titled "Management and Leadership." [2014]
- PSY104: Social Psychology [teaching assistant, 2014]
- PSY101: Introduction to Psychology [taught lab sections, 2013]
- PSY201: Introduction to Statistics [taught lab sections, 2013]