RESEARCH SPECIALIZATIONS UCR PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY
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DEVELOPMENTAL    

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.
     
Parke, Ross D . ; Professor
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1965
  Developmental psychology; social development; family relationships.
     
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 , Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1977
  Children and Media
     
SOCIAL / PERSONALITY    
Benet-Martinez, Veronica; Assistant Professor
Ph.D., UC Davis, 1995
  Biculturalism and bilingualism; Culture and personality description/measurement; Cross-cultural research methods.
     
DiMatteo, M. Robin ; Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University , 1976
  Health psychology; social and personality psychology.
     
Friedman, Howard ; Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University , 1976
  Social psychology; personality; nonverbal communication; health psychology.
     
Funder, David ; Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University , 1979
  Personality and social psychology; personality assessment.
     
Lyubomirsky, Sonja ; Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University , 1994
  Cognitive processes in happiness and well-being; emotional regulation.
     
Murray, Carolyn ; Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan , 1979
  Social psychology; psychology of Black experience; minority aging; attribution theory.
     
Ozer, Daniel ; Associate Professor
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1982
  Personality assessment and development; research methods.
     
Rosenthal, Robert ; Professor
Ph.D., UC Los Angeles, 1956
  Research methodology and statistics; nonverbal behavior and sensitivity; expectancy effects and education.
     
COGNITIVE    
Andersen, G. John ; Professor
Ph.D., UC Irvine, 1985
  Cognitive psychology; human factors; perception.
     
Barr, Dale ; Assistant 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 ; Associate 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.
     

NEUROSCIENCE

   
Hickmott, Peter ; Assistant 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
     
Stanley, B. Glenn ; Professor
Ph.D., Princeton , 1982
  Neuroscience; control of eating behavior.