Tara White and Roza Spencer

Tara White and Roza Spencer are both based at Brown University. Dr White is on the Faculty of the Behavioral and Social Sciences department, is founding director of the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience, and is affiliated Faculty with the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute. She is a Life Fellow at Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge, and a named Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her work spans three areas: dignity neuroscience, the human neuroscience of emotion, and drug effects in the human brain. Her efforts in founding the field of dignity neuroscience (dignityneuroscience.org; dignityneuroscience.com) provide a new line of inquiry linking neuroscience and human rights. Roza is an undergraduate working towards a BA in International and Public Affairs, with a special interest in the intersection of human rights and brain science. She has been involved with dignity neuroscience research at the White Lab since Spring 2022.

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Dignity Neuroscience: A Universal Rationale for Human Rights

Dignity Neuroscience: A Universal Rationale for Human Rights

Image description: Medical diagram of the first two domains of dignity neuroscience: (1) Agency, Autonomy & Self-Determination; (2) Freedom from Want Universal human rights are rooted in international consensus, derived from the ...