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Eliza Bliss-Moreau
Professor
Department of Psychology
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Department of Psychology
- 1 Shields Avenue
- Davis, CA 95616
- 530-752-6268
Eliza Bliss-Moreau is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and a core scientist at the California National Primate Research Center at UC Davis. She completed her undergraduate (S.B. in biology and psychology) and graduate (Ph.D. in psychology) training at Boston College and postdoctoral training in nonhuman primate neuroscience, primatology, and systems science at UC Davis. Before joining the Department of Psychology, she was a faculty member in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Why is it that some people float through life in a sea of tranquility and others spend their days riding an emotional roller coaster? Why does a traumatic experience result in psychopathology for some but leave others unscathed? What evolutionary purpose does variation in affect serve? How does early development program life-long variation in affective processing? How does the social environment shape the brain and emotion? Answering questions like this is our research team’s goal. The Bliss-Moreau Laboratory conducts translational and comparative affective science using multi-method, multi-species approaches to understand the biological underpinnings of the social and affective lives of humans and nonhuman animals.
Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium Participant 2016
Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2014
“Rising Star” Award, Association for Psychological Science 2013
Excellence in Postdoctoral Research Award, University of California, Davis 2013