Jennifer K. MacCormack, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Dr. Jennifer MacCormack is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Social Psychology and director of the Virginia Affect and Interoception Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. Trained in social psychology, psychophysiology, and affective neuroscience, her research broadly investigates how the body via the brain shapes both interoception (perceptions of internal bodily changes) and emotion across the lifespan. She received her B.A. in Psychology from North Carolina State University and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and Neuroscience in 2020 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a secondary concentration in Quantitative Psychology. After her Ph.D., Jennifer completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. To date, her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

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Presentation(s):

• New Spins on Classic Ideas About Context in Adult Emotional Development

  Saturday, November 5, 2022
  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET

• 3 - Aging Body as Context: The Role of Interoceptive Aging in Mid- and Late-Life Emotion

  Saturday, November 5, 2022
  3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET