Robb Rutledge

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Robb Rutledge joins Yale University’s Department of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in January 2020. He combines computational models, brain scanning, and pharmacology to study decision making and aff ective states like happiness, using smartphones to collect data from tens of thousands of people. His ongoing computational psychiatry research focuses on developing computational models that link behavior and aff ective states in people with mood disorders. He comes to Yale from University College London where he was an MRC Career Development Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and recipient of the 2018 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions. He received his Ph.D. in Neural Science from New York University and his B.S. in Biology from the California Institute of Technology.