Department of Human Development
Cornell University
G60, Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

jmikels@cornell.edu
(607) 255-0839 (voice)
(650) 725-5699 (fax)

Research Interests
the interactions between emotion and cognition, with an emphasis on basic cognitive processes such as attention and working memory; how individual differences in personality and aging influence emotion-cognition interactions

Joseph Mikels is a postdoctoral fellow in personality psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, and a CHP/PCOR associate. His research has focused on the interactions between emotion and cognition, with an emphasis on basic cognitive processes such as attention and working memory; the neurobiological substrates of emotion-cognition interactions, with an emphasis on the prefrontal cortex; how individual differences in personality and aging influence emotion-cognition interactions; and how these interactions relate to and underlie complex social behavior. He received a PhD in cognition and perception from the University of Michigan, where he was awarded a research fellowship and served as a graduate student instructor in the Department of Psychology. He received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award in 2003. During graduate school, he received a Rackham Graduate School Dissertation Grant in 2002 and a Rackham Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award in 2001.

Other affiliations
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cornell University