Ralph Adolphs
Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Biology
B.S., Stanford University, 1986; M.S., 1986; Ph.D., Caltech, 1993. Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, 2004-05; Bren Professor, 2005-; Professor of Biology, 2005-17; Davis Leadership Chair, 2017-21; Director, Caltech Brain Imaging Center, 2008-13, 2017-21.
Profile
Ralph Adolphs studies the neural and psychological basis for human social behavior. His work has focused on examining how people recognize, perceive, and process emotions and other social cues in facial expressions. Some of the questions his lab is trying to answer are: How do people make social and moral judgments? How do they make emotionally charged decisions? Why do people with autism have difficulties
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Research Summary
Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuropsychology; Neuroscience of Emotion; Social Neuroscience
Caltech Affiliations
Featured News
Autism Research Via Smartphone
August 21, 2024
A new study from the lab of Ralph Adolphs demonstrates that eye-tracking data for studying autism previously recorded only in laboratory settings can now be reliably duplicated with smartphones at home.
To Err Is Human
May 06, 2022
Caltech researchers discover how the brain learns to control our mistakes.
How Do You Study Facial Bias Without Bias?
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December 14, 2021
Caltech researchers probe the psychology and biases involved in judging people's faces
Selected Publications
- Han, Yanting;Adolphs, Ralph (2024) A shared structure for emotion experiences from narratives, videos and everyday lifeiScience
- Kim, Na Yeon;He, Junfeng et al. (2024) Smartphone‐based gaze estimation for in‐home autism researchAutism Research
- Keles, Umit;Dubois, Julien et al. (2024) Multimodal single-neuron, intracranial EEG, and fMRI brain responses during movie watching in human patientsScientific Data
- Tusche, Anita;Spunt, Robert P. et al. (2023) Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severityNature Communications
- Rouhani, Nina;Stanley, Damian et al. (2023) Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memoryProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Rusch, Tessa;Han, Yanting et al. (2023) COVID-Dynamic: a large-scale longitudinal study of socioemotional and behavioral change across the pandemicScientific Data
- Lin, Chujun;Adolphs, Ralph (2023) Trait impressions from faces depend on the goals of the perceiverBritish Journal of Psychology
- Saltoun, Karin;Adolphs, Ralph et al. (2022) Dissociable brain structural asymmetry patterns reveal unique phenome-wide profilesNature Human Behaviour
- Keleş, Ümit;Kliemann, Dorit et al. (2022) Atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults are heterogeneous across but reliable within individualsMolecular Autism
- Sawada, Masahiro;Adolphs, Ralph et al. (2022) Mapping effective connectivity of human amygdala subdivisions with intracranial stimulationNature Communications
2023-24
2022-23
NB/Bi/CNS 150 – Introduction to Neuroscience
2021-22
NB/Bi/CNS 150 – Introduction to Neuroscience