Researchers & Staff


Director
Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.

Lab Manager/Research Assistant
Halina Dour
Charlene Deming


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

 


Research Assistants
 Matthew J. Nock

Lab Alumni

 

  Director

Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D.

Position:

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Faculty Affiliate, Member of the Steering Committee
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Research Scientist
Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School
Research:
Teaching:

Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (Psych 1900)
Developmental Psychopathology (Psych 1861)
Psycholigcal Treatment 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 Clinical Science (Psych 3200)
Research Seminar in Developmental Psychopathology (Psych 3400)


Contact:


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

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

Charlene Deming, Research Assistant
Email: deming@wjh.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0452
 



Graduate Students

Christine Cha
Christine's current research is focused on the study of risk factors for suicidal behavior and self-injury, and on the factors that mediate and moderate these associations.
Email: ccha@wjh.harvard.edu

 

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 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
 



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 Scholar (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, HMS)

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)

Kristen Woodberry, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, HMS)

Tish MacDonald Wer, Graduate student (University of Denver)
   

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