Researchers & Staff


Director
Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.

Lab Manager/Research Assistant
Chistine B. Cha
Halina J. Dour


Graduate Students
Irene Belle Janis, A.M.
Bethany Michel
Valerie Photos, A.M.
 Carolyn Rubenstein
Michelle M. Wedig, A.M.
Kristen Woodberry, A.M.

 


Research Assistants
 Matthew J. Nock

Lab Alumni


 

  Director

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.
Matthew K. Nock is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He received his M.S. (2000), M.Phil. (2001) and Ph.D. (2003) in psychology from Yale University. He completed his clinical internship at the NYU-Child Study Center and Bellevue Hospital Center (2003) and joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University the same year. His research interests focus primarily on the etiology, assessment, and treatment of self-injurious and aggressive behaviors, particularly among children and adolescents.  Current projects include the development and evaluation of laboratory and ecological assessment methods for evaluating processes associated with self-injurious and aggressive behaviors. A related line of his research focuses on the evaluation of treatments for impulsive, aggressive, and self-injurious behaviors and on factors that mediate and moderate clinical change.

Vita:
Teaching:

Professor Nock receives Roslyn Abramson Teaching Award
Professor Nock receives Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award

Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Psych 1900)
Developmental Psychopathology (Psych 1861)
Psychotherapy Research (Psych 2445)
Self-Destructive Behaviors (Psych 1853)
Cultural and Individual Diversity (Psych 2430)
Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research (Psych 2461r)
Research Seminar in Experimental/Clinical Psychology (Psych 3200)
Developmental Psychopathology Research Workshop (Psych 3400)


Contact:


Department of Psychology
Harvard University
William James Hall, 1280
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
nock@wjh.harvard.edu
(617) 496-4484
(617) 496-9462

 

  Lab Manager / Research Assistants

Christine B. Cha
Email: ccha@wjh.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0452

 
Halina J. Dour
Email: hdour@wjh.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0452
 



Graduate Students

Irene Belle Janis, A.M.
Irene is interested in applying methodologies from social and cognitive psychology towards understanding psychopathology.  She is specifically interested in studying suicide and self-injurious behavior.  Her current research focuses on the role of automatic and implicit cognitions in non-suicidal self-injury.
E-mail: ijanis@fas.harvard.edu

Bethany Michel
Bethany's research examines pain perception (e.g., pain threshold, pain tolerance) among individuals engaging in self-injurious behaviors.
E-mail: bmichel@fas.harvard.edu

 
Valerie Photos, A.M.
Valerie's research is focused on the role of executive functioning in the performance of aggressive and self-injurious behaviors. Valerie also has an interest in treatment and public health policy in these areas.
E-mail: photos@fas.harvard.edu

Carolyn Rubenstein
Carolyn's research is focused on better understanding the extent to which people may use self-injurious and other harmful behaviors as a means of signaling/communicating distress and seeking help from others.
E-mail: rubenst@fas.harvard.edu

 
Michelle M. Wedig, A.M.
Michelle's research interests are focused on the role of difficulties in emotion regulation in the performance of self-injurious and related behaviors.
E-mail: mwedig@fas.harvard.edu

Kristen Woodberry, A.M.
Kristen's research interests are in developmental psychopathology and diathesis-stress models of major mental illness onset. She is currently studying cognitive change in adolescents at high clinical risk for psychosis.  Her specific interest is the interaction of psychosocial stress and neuropsychological deficits in the symptomatic and functional outcomes of these young people.
E-mail: woodber@fas.harvard.edu
 



Research Assistants
Matthew J. Nock
Matthew's work is focused on the development of fine motor skills, verbal fluency, and affective and behavioral control.
E-mail: nock@fas.harvard.edu
 

Lab Alumni
 

Tara L. Deliberto, Graduate student (Hofstra University)

Julie Edmunds, Graduate student (Temple University)

Caitlin Ferriter, Graduate student (UCLA)

Kaitlin Gallo, Graduate student (Boston University)

Juile Gold, Research coordinator (NIMH)

Lucy Grayson, Research assistant (Columbia University)

Elizabeth Holmberg, Graduate student (Duke University)

Janet Kwok, Graduate Student (Harvard University)

Laura Phillips, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston)

Carrie Schroyer, Medical student (University of Utah)

Romi (Teper) Ran, Graduate Student (University of Oxford)

Matthew Wallenstein, Medical student (Columbia University)

Max Warren, Rockefeller Fellow (Cambridge, MA/Tanzania)

Courtney Weiner, Graduate student (Boston University)

Ashley Witt, Research assistant (Boston University)

Tish MacDonald Wer, Graduate student (University of Denver)
   

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