Dr. Bryan Denny is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Psychological Sciences at Rice University and Director of the Translational Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (T-SCAN) Lab. He received his BA in psychology in 2005 from Stanford University and his PhD in psychology in 2012 from Columbia University. He completed postdoctoral training in clinical applications of social cognitive neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, and he has been at Rice since 2016. Dr. Denny has had a longstanding interest in seeking to understand the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms that underlie successful and unsuccessful emotion regulation across a spectrum of healthy and clinical populations. Further, he is interested in utilizing the results of basic investigations into these processes in order to design and examine novel interventions focused on improving real-world emotion regulation outcomes in a variety of contexts. Outside the lab and teaching, he enjoys traveling, éclairs au chocolat, sushi, playing drums, and karaoke.

RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP(S)

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine