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Shawn Rhoads

PhD student (Psychology)

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., & 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

Rhoads, S. A., Vekaria, K., O'Connell, K., Elizabeth, H. S., Rand, D., Williams, M. K. & Marsh, A. A.

(2023).

Unselfish traits and social decision-making patterns characterize six populations of real-world extraordinary altruists

In: Nature Communications, 14, 1807

Shawn A Rhoads, Jo Cutler, Abigail A Marsh

(2021).

A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions

In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2021, Pages 1214–1233

Rhoads, S. A., Ryan, R. M., & Marsh, A. A.

(2021).

Global Variation in Subjective Well-Being Predicts Seven Forms of Altruism

In: Psychological Science

O’Connell, K., Berluti, K., Rhoads, S. A., & Marsh, A. A.

(2021).

Reduced social distancing early in the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with antisocial behaviors in an online United States sample

In: PLoS One, 16(1): e0244974