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
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
Selected Grants & Awards
Intelligence Community ORISE Postdoctoral Fellowship. [2023-2025]
National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellowship. [2021-2023]
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]
Stimson Fund Research Grant, Harvard University. [2017]
Derek Bok Center Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard University. [2016]
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]
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]