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CV

Hayley M. Dorfman

Harvard University
Northwest Lab Building
52 Oxford Street

Cambridge, MA 02138
hdorfman@g.harvard.edu
Appointments

 

Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology [2019 - present]

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Phelps

 
Education

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Ph.D., Psychology [2014 - 2019]

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Advisor: Dr. Samuel Gershman

 

M.A., Psychology [2014 - 2016]

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

 

B.A., Psychology, B.A. Political Science [2004 - 2008]

Boston University

Boston, MA 

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Selected Grants & Awards

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Intelligence Community ORISE Postdoctoral Fellowship. [2023-2025]

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National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellowship. [2021-2023]

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George W. Goethals Award for Excellence in Teaching, Harvard University. [2021]

 

Mind, Brain, & Behavior Young Investigator Award, Harvard University. [2020-2021]

 

Norman Anderson Fund Research Grant, Harvard University. [2017]

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Stimson Fund Research Grant, Harvard University. [2017]

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Derek Bok Center Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard University. [2016]

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Sackler Scholar Programme in Psychobiology Stipend Award. [2016]

Selected Publications

 

Dorfman HM*, Tomov MS*, Cheung B, Clarke D, Gershman SJ*, Hughes BL*. (2021). Causal inference gates corticostriatal learning. The Journal of Neuroscience. [PDF]

 

Dorfman HM, & Gershman SJ. (2019). Controllability governs the balance between Pavlovian and instrumental action selection. Nature Communications. [PDF]

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Dorfman HM, Bhui R, Hughes BL, & Gershman SJ. (2019). Causal inference about good and bad news. Psychological Science. [PDF]

 

Tomov MS, Dorfman HM, & Gershman SJ. (2018). Neural computations underlying causal structure learning. The Journal of Neuroscience. [PDF]

 

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