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Paul J. Whalen

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Departments and Programs

  • Psychological and Brain Sciences

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Contact Information

Email: paul.j.whalen@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2196
Office: 6207 Moore Hall

Education

B.A. Stonehill College; Ph.D. University of Vermont

Areas of Expertise

Affective neuroscience; facial expressions

Selected Works

  • Whalen, P J, J Kagan, and R Cook, et. al., "Human Amygdala Responsivity to Masked Fearful Eye Whites," Science, 306 (2004) 2061.
  • Kim, H, L H Somerville, T Johnstone, A L Alexander, and P J Whalen, "Inverse Amygdala and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Responses to Surprised Faces," Neuroreport, 14 (2003) 2317-2322.
  • "Remembering People: Neuroimaging Takes on the Real World," Learning and Memory, 10 (2003) 240-241.
  • Davis, M and P J Whalen, "The Amygdala: Vigilance and Emotion," Molecular Psychiatry, 6 (2001) 13-34.
  • "Fear, Vigilance and Ambiguity: Initial Neuroimaging Studies of the Human Amygdala," 7 (1998) 177-188.

Current Projects

"Human Amygdala Responsivity to Fearful Eye-whites;" "Cingulo-amygdala Interactions in Surprise and Extinction: Interpreting Associative Ambiguity;" "Development of a Human Social Conditioning Paradigm;" "Differential Reported Experience with Facial Expression of Emotion"