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Andrew Fox
1500 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 263-3672 (office)
asfox@wisc.edu
Work Interests
While many researchers tend to focus on helping people who have psychophysiological disorders, I would like to develop a strong platform of research to help the general public become happier.
In the past affective science has been focused on finding ways to help people who suffer from depression and other disorders.
I would like to work toward a scientifically supported method to teach the general public to become more subjectively happy, and psychophysiological data to support it's validity.
The increasingly large percentage of the population who are being clinically diagnosed with emotionally related psychological disorders provides a clear need for such research.
I feel that there is room for life improvement far beyond the point of "not being diagnosed with a clinical disorder" and I would like to aid people in achieving this elevated emotional state.
Beyond the general goal of being happy, this line of research is gaining increasing importance as more people begin to study the effects of positive emotional states on the way people interact with their environments, particularly in terms of task efficiency, decision making, and economic spending.
My interests include: Physiological correlates of Positive Affect (Happiness, Contentment, etc.), Empathy (Compassion, etc.), and Well-Being; as well as behavioral/cognitive strategies to exert control over these neurological systems.
Current Work
I have just been accepted to a graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Clinical Psychology. I am currently working in the visualization and analysis of affect related brain imaging data, in both humans and rhesus monkeys (macaque mulatta). I am currently working primarily with methodology and analysis concerns with PET data, as well as structural and functional MRI data. I hope to use these skills to understand the biological processes behind subjective happiness and emotional well-being.
Information on my poster at Human Brain Mapping 2005 can be found on my LONI Pipeline to Condor page under my Work Web.
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