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James Coan, Ph.D. James Coan



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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