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James
Coan is a professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of the Virginia
Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, and faculty adviser to the Neuroscience
Graduate Program at the University of Virginia. Dr. Coan is the
author of more than 30 scientific articles and chapters, as well
as the author/editor of two books on scientifically validated methods
of eliciting and measuring emotional behavior.
For the past 15 years, Dr. Coan has studied the neuroscience of
emotional and interpersonal behavior, and co-developed (with John
Gottman) the Specific Affect Coding System ("The SPAFF")
for systematically observing emotional behavior in social interactions.
During this time, he has offered workshops to help his clients understand
and identify discrete moments of emotion that may hold important
implications for interpersonal relationships in a variety of settings.
His neuroscientific work on the effects of supportive social behavior
among romantic partners and even total strangers has been featured
in numerous media outlets, from the New York Times, National Public
Radio, and the Washington Post to Parade, New Scientist and Time
Magazines, and documentaries featured on BBC television and the
Discovery Channel.
Dr. Coan graduated from the University of Washington in 1993 with
a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical
Psychology and Research Methodology at the University of Arizona
in 2003, completing his clinical internship at the Southern Arizona
Veterans Administration Health Care System (SAVAHCS).
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