I am a associate professor in the Psychology Department at UC Davis. I study the neuroscience of social and emotional behavior in both humans and nonhuman primates. My research is focused on emotional and social decision-making and the development of social anxiety disorder. This page mostly consists of some tutorials and thoughts that I consider interesting. Feel free to contact me with questions or comments.
You can find me on google scholar and find my CV here.
I also lead the Python User Group (PUG) research cluster at the UC Davis DataLab.
Work from the Fox Lab was featured on the nighly news. This brief news feature focuses on our recent paper published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
As a scientist, I often get caught up on small inaccuracies and the details, but I think they got the gist of what …
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Work from the Fox Lab was featured on NPR. This brief news feature focuses on our recent paper published in Computational Psychiatry.
This work is focused on understanding precisely why we experience anxiety when we know something bad is going to happen, but don’t know when. The paper itself …
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The Fox Lab has recieved grants for a number of ongoing projects, in addition to support from UC Davis and the California National Primate Research Center.
Here are some of the most recent grants to give you an idea of what we are working on.
Origins and Emergence of Maladaptive …
Work from Fox was shown on the cover of the Biological Psychiatry special issue on Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.
The cover image is from a review by Kenwood & Kalin, that heavily draws from work done by Fox and colleagues. Much of this which began during Fox’s time in the Kalin …
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Our feelings play a big role in our lives. Feelings help us choose, motivate our actions, and define our interactions with others. In this way, emotional tendencies define who we are now and who we are going to be in the future.
In the Fox lab, we want to understand …
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The Fox lab at the University of California at Davis is often looking for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral team members.
In the Fox Lab we primarily study nonhuman primates using brain imaging and molecular techniques.
For an idea of what the Fox lab is working on, check our my publications …
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