The University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
5848 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Stephen Gray
Background
Stephen is a doctoral student in the Cognitive Psychology Program at the University of Chicago. He graduated, with highest honors, from Brandeis University in 2011 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology. There, he worked with Dr. Jutta Wolf in the Psychology department, trying to establish a psychosocial and physiological model of academic self-efficacy for his honors thesis. Stephen began the doctoral program at the University of Chicago in the autumn of 2011.
Research Interests
Stephen works with Dr. David Gallo in exploring human memory, its limitations, and its relationships to other psychological processes. He is currently interested in trying to understand the cognitive processes involved in testing effects, and how capitalizing upon this knowledge can lead to overall improvements of memory. He is also intent on learning more about how positive and negative emotions, both immediately before and after encoding, can influence the content of our memories at retrieval. He hopes to utilize both behavioral and neuroimaging methodologies to answer these questions.
Publications
Gray, S.J., Harris, D.S., Nichols, K., Johnson, J., Rohleder, N., Wolf, J.M (2011). Maternal Education Predicts Sleep Efficiency in College Students in a Gender-Specific Manner. 69th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS), San Antonio, Texas, March 9-12, 2011. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73(3), A30.
Thoma, M.V., Berman, E.R., Gray, S.J., He, J.A., Lerman, M.H., Nichols, K.M., Specker, M.F., Wang, D., Wolf, J.M, Rohleder, N. Relationship of the Diurnal Rhythm of Heart Rate Variability with Plasma Interleukin-6 and Salivary Alpha-Amylase. 69th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS), San Antonio, Texas, March 9-12, 2011. Psychosomatic Medicine, 73(3), A163.
Wolf, J.M., Gray, S.J., Harris, D.S., Robsman, L., Wong, J., Ellman, R., Bashina, A., Rohleder, N. (2010). High subjective social status is associated with low sleep efficiency in adolescents and young adults. 68th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS), Portland, Oregon, March 10-13, 2010. Psychosomatic Medicine, 72(3), A96.
