Cendri Hutcherson

Cendri Hutcherson
Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Decision Neuroscience
Telephone number
(416) 287-7447
Building SW 565

Biography

Cendri Hutcherson is the director of the Toronto Decision Neuroscience Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment to the Rotman School of Management. She received degrees in psychology from Harvard (B.A.) and Stanford (Ph.D.), and worked as a post-doctoral scholar studying neuroeconomics at the California Institute of Technology. Her research program applies computational modeling to behavior, eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI data, with the goal of understanding how we make decisions and why we sometimes make decisions we later regret.

Research Interests

Decision-making; Self-control; Morality; Social and affective neuroscience; Computational modeling; fMRI