Faculty Research Specialization
DEVELOPMENTAL |
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| Chao, Ruth;
Associate Professor Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1992 |
Psychocultural study of childhood socialization; Asian American socialization; parental belief systems. |
| Gauvain, Mary; Professor Ph.D., University of Utah, 1982 |
Developmental psychology; cognitive development; cultural psychology. |
| Guerra, Nancy; Professor Ed.D., Harvard University, 1986 |
Community and Prevention Research; developmental development of aggression and delinquency behavior; adolescence; socialization of prosocial attitudes and behaviors; social cognition; moral development. |
| Natsuaki, Misaki; Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2006 |
Emotional and behavioral development in adolescence, developmental psychopathology, and biological and contextual interaction, puberty. |
| Reynolds, Chandra A.; Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1994 |
Life-span psychology, cognitive aging, developmental psychopathology, behavioral genetics. |
| Richert, Rebekah A.; Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2003 |
The development of metaphysical cognition - namely pretense, imagination, and religion, children’s involvement in religious worlds and children’s fantastical worlds. |
| Wartella, Ellen; Distinguished Professor Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1977 |
Children and Media |
| Yates, Tuppett; Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota |
Developmental processes underlying positive developmental pathways among at-risk youth. |
SOCIAL / PERSONALITY |
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| Benet-Martinez, Veronica; Associate Professor Ph.D., UC Davis, 1995 |
Biculturalism and bilingualism; Culture and personality description/measurement; Cross-cultural research methods. |
| DiMatteo, M. Robin; Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976 |
Health psychology; social and personality psychology. |
| Friedman, Howard; Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976 |
Social psychology; personality; nonverbal communication; health psychology. |
| Funder, David; Distinguished Professor Ph.D., Stanford University, 1979 |
Personality and social psychology; personality assessment. |
| Lyubomirsky, Sonja; Professor Ph.D., Stanford University , 1994 |
Architecture of sustainable happiness; thwarting hedonic adaptation to positive experience; responses to negative emotions. |
| Murray, Carolyn; Professor Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1979 |
Social psychology; psychology of Black experience; minority aging; attribution theory. |
| Ozer, Daniel; Professor Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1982 |
Personality assessment and development; research methods. |
| Rosenthal, Robert; University Professor Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1956 |
Research methodology and statistics; nonverbal behavior and sensitivity; expectancy effects and education. |
| Sweeny, Kate; Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Florida, 2008 |
How people give news of, prepare for, and respond to negative life events. |
| Sy, Thomas; Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Michigan |
How the leadership process contributes to high performance at the individual, group, and organizational levels. |
COGNITIVE |
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| Andersen, G. John; Professor Ph.D., UC Irvine, 1985 |
Cognitive psychology; human factors; perception. |
| Barr, Dale; Associate Professor Ph.D., University if Chicago, 1999 |
Conversational psycholinguistics; semantics and pragmatics; conventions and conceputal co-ordination. |
| Burgess, Curt; Professor Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1991 |
Psycholinguistics; parsing, sentence comprehension; lexical ambiguity; computational models of language and memory; neurolinguistics. |
| Chiarello, Christine; Professor Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1982 |
Neural and cognitive bases of language comprehension; semantic memory; interhemispheric interaction. |
| Clark, Steven; Professor Ph.D., Indiana University, 1988 |
Memory and cognition. |
| Erickson, Michael; Assistant Professor Ph.D., Indiana University, 1999 |
Conversational psycholinguistics; semantics and pragmatics; conventions and conceptual co-ordination. |
| Rosenblum, Lawrence; Professor Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1988 |
Speech and auditory perception; ecological psychology. |
| Seitz, Aaron; Assistant Professor | Organization of the sensory systems and how the brain selectively adapts to important environmental changes. |
NEUROSCIENCE |
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| Hickmott, Peter; Associate Professor Ph.D., Yale University, 1994 |
Neuroscience; organization and plasticity of cortical circuits. |
| Huffman-Neal, Kelly; Assistant Professor Ph.D., UC Davis, 2000 |
Neuroscience; development and arealization of the cerebral cortex |
| Korzus, Edward; Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Georgia |
How neural circuits hold knowledge and guide behavior |
| Razak, Khaleel A.; Assistant Professor Ph.D. University of Wyoming, 2001 |
The development of sensory processing. The development of both sound localization and echolocation behaviors in the pallid bat. |
| Stanley, B. Glenn; Professor Ph.D., Princeton, 1982 |
Neuroscience; control of eating behavior. |