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	Ayala Arad is a postdoctoral fellow at the UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) and a recipient of the Rothschild Fellowship for postdoctoral studies. She received her Ph.D. in economics at Tel-Aviv University in 2011. Her research involves identifying systematic deviations from the classic economic model of the rational man through experiments and using the findings to construct new models of behavior. She is interested in both strategic reasoning and individual decision-making processes. In particular, she studies iterative reasoning, the history-dependence of preferences, how individuals make decisions under uncertainty and the way in which available information is used in such situations. Understanding the psychological tendencies that arise in different contexts may help in identifying mechanisms for behavior change.
	Bob Barde is Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at UC Berkeley as well as Manager of the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (aka Xlab) and Executive Director of the Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging. He holds an M.A. in Political Economy from the University of Toronto. Barde has written extensively on immigration and on the immigration/public health nexus. He is co-author of the “International Migration” chapter in the new Historical Statistics of the United States, From Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition, of which he was also the founding Managing Editor. Barde has written on immigration and public health for the Journal of the History of Medicine and on immigration history for Social Science History and Prologue, the quarterly publication of the National Archives and Records Administration. His book, Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island, was published in 2008.
	Ray Catalano is a Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He is author of over 70 publications concerned with the health and behavioral effects of changes in regional economies. Recent articles are concerned with job loss as a risk factor for violent behavior and alcohol abuse. His research has been supported by multiple grants from NIMH and the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. In addition to his professorial appointments, Dr. Catalano has held several administrative positions at the University of California. He served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Associate Executive Vice Chancellor at the Irvine Campus. He has been active in local government and community affairs. He served as a city councilman and Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Irvine.
	Ronald E. Dahl is a Professor of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Dahl is a pediatrician with research interests in the areas of sleep/arousal and affect regulation and its relevance to development of behavioral and emotional disorders in children and adolescents. His work focuses on early adolescence and pubertal maturation as a developmental period with unique opportunities for early intervention in relation to a wide range of behavioral and emotional health problems. Dahl co-directs a large program project of research on child/adolescent depression with more than a decade of funding from the NIMH, and has received an NIH Independent Scientist Award focused on the interface of sleep, arousal, and affect regulation during adolescent development. This research is interdisciplinary and bridges between basic developmental research and the direct clinical translation regarding early intervention for affective disorders. He has published extensively on adolescent development, sleep disorders, and behavioral/emotional health in children.
	Claudia M. Haase is a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley working with Robert W. Levenson at the Institute of Personality and Social Research. She is interested in successful development across the life span. She has examined a broad range of predictors of successful development ranging from the macro-level (i.e., social change) to individual-level processes (i.e., emotion, motivation, and behavior) to the molecular (i.e., genetic polymorphisms). Moreover, she has studied a comprehensive range of outcomes of successful development ranging from well-being and health to career success and marital satisfaction. A central assumption guiding her work is that the range of motivational, emotional, behavioral, and genetic factors that promote successful development may be wider than we think. What may be harmful in one context may be beneficial in another.
	Stephen Hinshaw is Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley, where he served as Department Chair from 2004-2011, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF. He received his B.A. from Harvard, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Langley Porter Institute (UCSF), he joined the Berkeley faculty. His work focuses on developmental psychopathology: peer and family relationships, neuropsychological risk factors, pharmacologic and psychological interventions for children with ADHD, assessment and evaluation, conceptual and definitional issues, mental health problems in teenage girls, the stigmatization of mental illness, and international training efforts. Hinshaw has authored over 225 articles, chapters, and reviews plus 7 books. He is editor of Psychological Bulletin, the most cited journal in the field of general psychology, and is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).�
	Shachar Kariv was educated at Tel Aviv University and New York University where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 2003. The same year he joined the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. He is the Faculty Director of UC Berkeley Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab), a laboratory for conducting experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social sciences. His fields of interest include game theory, decision theory, and experimental and behavioral economics. His research interests include social learning, social networks, social and moral preferences, and risk preferences. He is particularly interested in decision-making quality and the mechanisms underlying behavior change.
	Robert W. Levenson received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in clinical psychology. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Personality and Social Research, Director of the Clinical Science Program, and Director of the Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory. His research program is in the area of human emotion, studying the organization of physiological, behavioral and subjective systems; the ways that these systems are impacted by neuropathology, normal aging, and culture; and the role that emotions play in the maintenance and disruption of committed relationships. Normal aging and late-life neurodegenerative diseases both are important factors in producing behavior change. Levenson's research on intimate relationships includes a 20-year longitudinal study of long-term marriages that has focused on how spouses' emotional behavior changes over time.
	Mark C. Pachucki is a sociologist whose work seeks to specify how health and health behaviors (such as eating and exercise) and our relationships with others shape one another. To address this, his research focuses on the networks of relationships that organize society and the meanings that individuals attribute to the world around them. Mark received a BA in Sociology from Columbia University and his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He is currently appointed as a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar jointly at UCSF and UC Berkeley, and his research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging and the National Science Foundation. His interest in the BCRN�s efforts stem from an awareness that though we know a great deal about social networks and health behaviors among adults, our understanding of how social connectedness affects health at earlier stages of human development are more limited.
	Jeffrey Spielberg is a postdoctoral fellow working with Ron Dahl in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He recently completed his degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms involved in goal pursuit, particularly those related to motivation, attention, and executive function. He is interested in how dysfunction in these processes contributes to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety and depression. He is currently integrating aspects of development into his research with a focus on how developmental changes in the interplay between motivation and attentional/executive processes contribute to the increased risk for anxiety and depression observed in adolescence. The ultimate goal of his research is to develop treatment and prevention efforts for depression and anxiety that address deficits in the ability to successfully pursue goals or risk factors that may lead to such deficits.
	Wouter van den Bos is a postdoctoral fellow in Psychological Sciences at Stanford University working at the Decision Neuroscience Lab. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive, affective, motivational, and social processes that underlie decision-making across adolescence. Recent advances in developmental neurosciences have revealed different maturational trajectories for the different processes underlying decision-making. He is interested how these different trajectories may impact decision-related processes such as the sensitivity to positive or negative reinforcers, cooperative or competitive behavior and intertemporal choice. Adolescence is period in which the control of behavior still develops and important behavioral patterns are set, and it is therefore a key period for understanding both the mechanisms underlying behavioral change and a target for focused intervention.