Sandra Langeslag
Cognitive and Biological Psychologist
Speaker
Dr. Sandra Langeslag is an Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri – St. Louis in the United States.
She obtained her PhD in Biological and Cognitive Psychology from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Dr. Langeslag directs the Neurocognition of Emotion and Motivation Lab, in which she studies the interaction between emotions and cognition.
She has four research lines on romantic love: 1) showing that love improves cognition if the task is about the beloved, 2) showing that love hurts cognition if the task is not related to the beloved, 3) showing that people can increase and decrease love feelings by using certain behavioral and cognitive strategies, and 4) studying the similarities and differences between love and addiction.
