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 Ph.D. in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience from Georgia State University in 2022. In his graduate research, Khalil used the Prisoner's Dilemma and other economic-exchange paradigms to examine the neural mechanisms underlying sociocognitive and emotional bias in individuals expressing the symptoms of social anxiety. His dissertation topic explored the influence of maladaptive interpersonal problems on the presentation of social anxiety and whether an individual’s interpersonal profile modulated social behavior over and above symptom severity. His current work in the Child Brain Lab incorporates his experiences with fMRI, behavioral, and self-report research methods with the fNIRS modality to illuminate the developmental mechanisms that influence the evolution of temperament, prosocial behavior, and psychopathology in children growing up in conflict-laden home enviroments.