Khalil Thompson, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

khalilt@wustl.edu

Khalil Thompson is as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Laboratory for Child Brain Development. He originally hails from Sacramento, California. He received his B.S. in
Psychology and Minor in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2015 and his M.A. in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience from Georgia State University in 2018. He expects to complete his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience at Georgia State University in May 2022. In his graduate research, Khalil used the Prisoner's Dilemma and other game-theoretic paradigms to examine the neural mechanisms underlying sociocognitive and emotional bias in individuals with social anxiety disorder. His more recent research explores the impact of maladaptive interpersonal problems on the presentation of social anxiety and whether interpersonal style modulates social behavior more than symptom severity. He plans to incorporate his experiences with fMRI, behavioral, and self-report research methods with the fNIRS modality to illuminate the developmental mechanisms that influence the evolution of prosocial behavior and interpersonal dynamics more broadly in early childhood.