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James A. Coan is an American Neuroscientist who studies the neural mechanisms linking social relationships to psychological well being and physical health. His professional work extends to public outreach via television and podcasts.

Early life and education
Coan was born July 11, 1969, in Silver Spring, Maryland, and grew up in a variety of places, including Silver Spring, Lethbridge, Alberta, and Spokane Valley, Washington, where he graduated from Central Valley High School (Washington) in 1987. A first-generation college student, he took classes on and off at Eastern Washington University, Spokane Falls Community College, and Bellevue College before earning his Associate degree at Shoreline Community College in Seattle, in 1991. In 1993, he earned his Bachelor of Science at the University of Washington, following which he was employed as a laboratory manager by John Gottman. In 1996, he moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he attended graduate school under the supervision of John J.B. Allen and Lee Sechrest. In 2003, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Arizona.

Career
James "Jim" Coan is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. From 2003 to 2005, he was funded by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked with Richard Davidson. Currently, Coan acts as Director of the Virginia Affective Neuroscience Laboratory.

Coan is also a scientific advisor at Movius Consulting.

Work
Broadly, Coan's work draws on Social neuroscience to inform his interests in Clinical psychology.

Early Work
False Memory Implantation. Coan's earliest work was completed under the supervision of Elizabeth Loftus while still an undergraduate at the University of Washington. As part of an extra credit assignment in Loftus' survey course in Cognitive psychology, Coan developed and piloted the first instance of the Lost in the mall technique for implanting false biographical memories in research subjects. For this pilot, Coan's brother Chris falsely recalled not only those details suggested to him, but also many details that had not. This work was widely covered in popular media at the time, with ongoing coverage in recent years.

Divorce Prediction.

Brain Games
9 Episodes

Circle of Willis
A podcast founded in 2016