Department Highlights

Dacher Keltner

Dacher Keltner was awarded the Association for Psychological Science's 2025 APS Mentor Award in recognition of his exceptional mentoring, and innovative research on compassion and awe, cultural influences on emotion and the dynamics of human hierarchies and power abuses.

Jasmin Brooks Stephens

Clinical psychologist Jasmin Brooks Stephens has been named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in healthcare. Congratulations!

Alumni Stories

Alan Leavens PhD

After graduating in 1975 with my Bachelor's in Psychology, I went on and received my Master's and PhD at PGSP (now Palo Alto University). and immediately went into private practice. I basically...

Richard Harry Gatley, Ph.D.

After graduating with honors from U.C. Berkeley in 1962, Richard Gatley went on to take an M.A. and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Michigan State University. In 1969 he became an Assistant...

Irene Kao

I graduated from Cal in 2009 with degrees in both Psychology and Social Welfare. I attinaed my Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Azusa Pacific...