Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 2013 M.S., Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 2010 Dr. phil. (German Ph.D.), Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany, 2008 B.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 1998 Ryan Bremner’s research applies approaches from emotion regulation to problems of social cognition and judgment and decision-making. He is currently exploring the effects of gaining “distance” from one’s thoughts, or “self-distancing,” on strengthening human reflection, including the reduction of biased thought. He is also pursuing an empirical expansion to his philosophical work on happiness. He teaches Social Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, and Research Issues in Social Psychology.