Jean Decety#
| Membership Number: | 5971 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://voices.uchicago.edu/scnl/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6165-9891 |
| Twitter: | @Decety |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-decety-6504422/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present Full Professor, University of Chicago
- 2015 - 2016 Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- 2001 - 2004 Head of the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle
- 1997 - 2001 Director of Research, and Head of Neurophysiology of Intentionality, INSERM unit 280, Lyon, France
- 1996 - 2001 Member of the Direction Board, Biomedical Cyclotron - Positron Emission Tomography Center, Lyon, France
- 1991 - 1996 Junior and then senior researcher, INSERM unit 94, Bron, France
- 1990 - 1991 Post-doctoral scholar, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Electroencephalography
- Moral decision-making
- Social neuroscience
- Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Psychopathy
- Empathy
- Developmental social neuroscience
- Affective neuroscience
Honours and Awards
- 2013 IPSEN Foundation - Neuropsychology Award
- 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2009 Fellow of the American Association for Psychological Science
- 2010 Doctor Honoris Causa, Favaloro University Medical School, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1992 Wellcome Trust, for a short stay at the Department of Medicine, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London, United Kingdom
- 1990 The British Council, for a stay at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK
- 1990 - 1991 INSERM, for a post-doc stay at the Karolinska Hospital, Department of Neuroradiology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1988 - 1990 Fyssen Foundation, for Ph.D. training in the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
