Sarah Hennessy, PhD

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Switching to bluesky: hennessysarah.bsky.social

New paper out in Emotion, with @assalhabibi, Shrikanth Narayanan and Timothy Greer! We replicate and extend previous findings to show that music-evoked nostalgia is a primarily positive, but still mixed, feeling that is influenced by personality. psycnet-apa-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/record/2024-97…

Had a wonderful time at #Neuromusic8 in Helsinki!

A recent piece on some of my dissertation work on music-evoked autobiographical memory with @AssalHabibi now in Trojan Family Magazine and online 🎉 “Does music unlock memory?” today.usc.edu/does-music-unl…

Excited to be in DC for the @UCSFMDRN summit for music, brain health, and dementia! ✨

Join us this Thursday for a morning summit program on the power of music to positively impact brain health.

I defended my dissertation last week! 🧠🎶 So grateful for my amazing advisor, @assalhabibi, and the rest of my wonderful committee! @Jonas_Kaplan @USCBCI @damasiousc @USCDornsife ⁃Sarah Hennessy, PhD 🎓

Congratulations Dr. Hennessy @SarahLHennessy ! So proud of you and all you have accomplished. To many more. @USCBCI @Jonas_Kaplan

@AssalHabibi @USCBCI @Jonas_Kaplan 🎉🎉🥲

President @PresidentFolt and Provost @uscprovost Attached is a statement, signed by 36 members of the Psychology Department, condemning the silencing of our valedictorian and the draconian handling of recent student-led protests. @USCPsychology @USCDornsife @darbysaxbe

My op-Ed on interpreting brain imaging data related to kids and social media in the LATimes today!

Ashamed to be @USC faculty today! Peaceful protest led by young activists, saw my students & colleagues there. Nothing violent/disrespectful/anti-Semitic. USC silencing the valedictorian was wrong, and their actions since are even worse. This is shameful, immoral.

🗓️Mark your calendars for the upcoming Arts and Medicine Webinar, hosted by the #USC Provost and Academic Senate on 4/10. Our director @AssalHabibi will be on the panel and member @JDKun will be moderating this event. Everyone is welcome! ⛓️ Register : tinyurl.com/uscartsandmedi…

SHN’s Scientific Analyst @kkcbarrett shares how parts of our brain help “gives us the feels” in this meta-analyses of research by Stefan Koelsch, PhD. #joy #soundhealth #research

I'm delighted to share that our lab has contributed to a groundbreaking anthology that explores the profound effects of music and art on health and the human experience! "Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness" edited by Renée Fleming. #musicscience

The main study from my dissertation is now published in Cerebral Cortex! With this study, we used fMRI and an Oscar-nominated animated short to make progress on how mixed feelings arise in the brain- *how* does heartbreak feel good in a place like this? academic.oup.com/cercor/article…

@aanixel @ProfWendyWood @nate_fast @aanobs @leorhackel Congrats Dr. Anderson!!!!!!!!

Successfully defended my dissertation!! Thanks to my committee @ProfWendyWood @nate_fast @aanobs and @leorhackel for all your support and guidance!!!! And thanks to my family, friends and partner for making this day special 💜💜💜 #PhD #phdvoice

Looking forward to tuning in to the @NIH Music as Medicine Workshop tomorrow morning to hear exciting research updates from my advisors and colleagues. nccih.nih.gov/news/events/mu…