Razia is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University - Newark and the Director of the Social Interaction and Emotion Lab. Her lab works to understand how people influence each others' emotional states ("social emotion regulation"). She completed her B.A. at New York University in Psychology and Philosophy, M.A. in Neurophilosophy at Georgia State University, Ph.D. in Psychology at University of California Los Angeles, and NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton University. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, National Geographic, Harvard Business Review, and Vox. She loves spending time outdoors, watching films, and cooking.

Ana recently completed her B.A. with Honors in Psychology and English Literature at Stanford, where she was mentored by Kate Petrova and James Gross. She is originally from Aracaju, a coastal town in Brazil. Ana is excited to explore how narrative and linguistic processes shape emotion regulation, whether in everyday conversations between friends or within therapeutic settings. As the Social Interaction and Emotion Lab's founding lab manager, she is also looking forward to cultivating the community of the lab! Ana enjoys reading good novels, finding good Substack articles, and exploring NYC and NJ.

Originally from Belarus, Maryia completed high school in the Netherlands before moving to the US to earn a BS in Neuroscience and Sociology from Washington and Lee University. As an undergraduate, she studied the physiology of stress and conducted research on migration. After graduating, she worked at a cognitive neuroscience lab in the Kessler Foundation, focused on rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury. As an inaugural PhD student in the Social Interaction and Emotion Lab she is interested in prosocial coordination in crisis, especially how social emotion-regulation shapes collective resilience in the face of adversity. Outside of research, Maryia loves to travel, shoot film photography, and journal.