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Shawn Rhoads, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

I am a PhD student in the Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience concentration. I graduated from the University of Southern California in 2016, where I doubled majored in Physics and Psychology. I joined the lab in 2017 after working as a laboratory manager at the University of California Davis with Drs. Amanda E. Guyer and Paul D. Hastings. I study the neurocomputational basis of interpersonal perception, learning and decision-making in social contexts, and emotional experiences that are shared (i.e., interactions with others) or vicarious (i.e., affective empathy).

Recent Publications

Rhoads, S. A., Gan, L., Berluti, K., O'Connell, K., Cutler, J., Lockwood, P. L., & Marsh, A. A.

(2025).

Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others

In: Nature Communications 16, 9350.

O'Connell, K., Rhoads, S. A., Marsh, A. A.

(2024).

Fear: An Evolutionary Perspective on Its Biological, Behavioral, and Communicative Features

In: The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions, pp. 500-519. Oxford University Press.

Rhoads, S. A., Marsh, A. A.

(2024).

Traits of extraordinary altruists

In: Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies

Rhoads, S. A., O'Connell, K., Berluti, K., Ploe, M. L., Elizabeth, H. S., Amormino, P., Li, J., Dutton, M. A., VanMeter, A. S., Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists’ generosity for socially distant others

In: PNAS Nexus, pgad199

Rhoads, S. A., & Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Doing good and feeling good: Relationships between altruism and well-being for altruists, beneficiaries, and observers

In: World Happiness Report 2023 (11th ed., Chapter 4). Sustainable Development Solutions Network