Welcome Dr. Norman Farb

We would like to welcome Dr. Norman Farb (Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga), to the CPIN Program. Norman Farb, PhD, is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory (www.radlab.zone). He studies the psychology of well-being, focusing on mental habits, such as how we think about ourselves and interpret our emotions. He is particularly interested in why people differ in their resilience to stress, depression, and anxiety. Prof. Farb's current work explores training to assess and support wellbeing, and neuroimaging to understand how emotional responses predict mental health over the lifespan. He has a particular interest in interoception, the sense of the body's internal state, with a focus on respiratory awareness and training. To this end, his research employs self report, psychophysiology, and fMRI approaches to characterizing states of interoceptive attention and their role in emotion regulation. Together with Prof. Zindel Segal, he wrote Better in Every Sense, a book that describes the surprising role of sensation in mental health. He is currently the senior Social Psychology editor at Collabra: Psychology, the journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.