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  Faculty Listing - All Areas

For Emeriti Faculty listings see
Emeriti Directory

Ayduk, Ozlem
Associate Professor
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Relationships and Social Cognition Lab
Area(s): Social/Personality - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Close relationships; emotion regulation; development of self-regulation in children
Bishop, Sonia
Assistant Professor
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Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Clinical Science
Interests: Neural mechanisms supporting attention, emotion and their interactions; individual differences in cognitive control and emotional responsivity; neural substrate of anxiety; genetic factors modulating recruitment of cortical 'control' and limbic 'affective' mechanisms
Bunge, Silvia
Associate Professor
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Bunge Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience and developmental cognitive neuroscience; cognitive control and prefrontal function
Campos, Joseph
Professor
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Infant Studies Laboratory
Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development - Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Social-emotional development in infancy, especially emotional communication and perception of emotion; and the relation of motor development to cognitive, social and emotional development
Chen, Serena
Associate Professor
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Self, Identity and Relationships (SIR) Lab
Area(s): Social/Personality (Area Head)
Interests: Social bases of the self, multiple levels of self-definition, close relationships and cognition, social identity, intergroup relations, dual process models, knowledge representation and use
D'Esposito, Mark
Professor
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D'Esposito Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Working memory and frontal lobe function, functional MRI, cognitive neuroscience
Gallant, Jack
Professor
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Gallant Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Visual neuroscience, attention
Gopnik, Alison
Professor
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Gopnik Cognitive Development Lab
Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development (Area Head) - Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Cognitive development, causal learning, psychology and philosophy
Griffiths, Thomas
Associate Professor
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Computational Cognitive Science Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Computational models of cognition, including causality, categorization, inductive inference, probabilistic reasoning, language learning, and language evolution; machine learning; Bayesian statistics
Harvey, Allison
Professor
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Harvey Sleep and Psychological Disorders Lab
Area(s): Clinical Science
Interests: Adult psychopathology, especially sleep disorders. Cognitive processes of thought (worry/rumination), attention, memory and reasoning; comorbidity; transdiagnostic approaches; cognitive therapy; interactions between cognitive, emotional and biological processes and adult psychopathology.
Hesse, Erik
Associate Adjunct Professor
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Area(s): Change, Plasticity and Development; Affiliate, Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Attachment and evolution; narrative; disorganized and unclassifiable child and adult attachment status; alterations in normal consciousness as related to adverse attachment experiences; effects of frightened and frightening parental behavior
Hinshaw, Stephen
Professor
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The Hinshaw Lab
Area(s): Clinical Science - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Childhood behavior disorders, developmental psychopathology. Attention deficits and hyperactivity; aggressive behavior, peer relations, family interactions, and neuropsychological risk factors; psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for children with ADHD; process and outcome research in child interventions; assessment, diagnosis, and classification of child disorders; definitions of mental disorder; stigma associated with mental disorder.
Ivry, Richard
Chair & Professor
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Cognition and Action Laboratory (CognAc)
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations; temporal processing, coordination, executive control, and attention; cognitive neuroscience
Jacobs, Lucia
Associate Professor
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The Jacobs Cog-Evo-Devo Lab
Area(s):
Change, Plasticity & Development - Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Cognitive and brain evolution, adaptive patterns in spatial memory, spatial navigation, cognitive sex differences and decision making
John, Oliver
Professor
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Oliver John's Berkeley Personality Lab
Area(s):
Social/Personality
Interests: Self-concept; self-perception accuracy and biases; personality development and assessment across the life span; emotion experience and expression; cultural differences
Johnson, Sheri L.
Professor
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Area(s): Clinical Science
Interests:
Basic and treatment research on bipolar disorder. Neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social triggers of mania, with a focus on the reward system. Psychosocial parallels in the triggers of bipolar and unipolar depression. Psychosocial interventions to prevent mania. Serotonin and processes involved in emotion regulation.
Keltner, Dacher
Professor
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Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory
Area(s): Social/Personality - Change, Plasticity & Development  
Interests: Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture
Kihlstrom, John
Professor
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The Human Ecology of Memory
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Social/Personality
Interests: Cognition in personal and social contexts; unconscious mental processes; memory; hypnosis; social cognition; personality; experimental psychopathology; health cognition and behavior
Knight, Robert
Professor
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Knight Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Attention and memory; neuropsychology and physiology; cognitive neuroscience
Kriegsfeld, Lance
Associate Professor
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Kriegsfeld Lab
Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience (Area Head)
Interests: Behavioral neuroendocrinology, circadian biology, reproductive behavior and physiology, seasonality/photoperiodism, behavioral genetics, behavioral neuroscience
Kring, Ann
Professor
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Emotion and Social Interaction Laboratory
Area(s): Clinical Science - Social/Personality - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Psychopathology. Emotional features of schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion and other cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia, emotion, social interaction, and social anxiety, emotion, and depression. Emotion: individual differences in emotional expression, gender and emotion, the relationship between social context, personality, and emotion.
Levenson, Robert
Professor
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Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory
Area(s): Clinical Science (Area Head) - Change, Plasticity & Development - Social/Personality - Institute of Personality and Social Research - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Emotion. Autonomic nervous system and facial expressive components, cultural influences, empathy, emotional control, emotional changes with aging, dementing disorders, and brain pathology. Marital interaction across the life span: emotional and physiological signs and predictors of marital distress.
Lombrozo, Tania
Assistant Professor
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Concepts and Cognition Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Cognitive psychology of explanation and understanding; concepts, theories, and causality; moral reasoning; philosophy and psychology
Main, Mary
Professor
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Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development; Affiliate, Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Attachment; animal behavior; ethology; narrative; Gricean maxims as related to life-history descriptions; children's drawings and other representational products as related to attachment
Maslach, Christina
Professor
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Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Social: job burnout and health psychology; individuation and dissent, gender roles
Mauss, Iris
Assistant Professor
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Emotion Regulation Lab
Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Emotion and emotion regulation; psychological health; psychophysiology; sociocultural norms and beliefs; aging and emotion regulation

Mendoza-Denton, Rodolfo
Associate Professor
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Relationships and Social Cognition Lab
Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Prejudice; stereotyping; cultural influences on social cognition; personality; intergroup processes; coping
Nemeth, Charlan
Professor
[Contact]
Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Social: influence processes; decision making and creativity in small groups; managing innovation in organizations; psychology of creative scientists, artists and entrepreneurs
Peng, Kaiping
Associate Professor
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Culture & Cognition Lab
Area(s): Social/Personality - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Social: cultural psychology, culture and cognition, reasoning and judgment across cultures and domains, and cross-cultural understandings
Prinzmetal, William
Adjunct Professor
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Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Visual perception, attention and cognition
Robertson, Lynn
Adjunct Professor
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Cognitive Neuropsychology: Attention Laboratory
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations. Functional hemisphere asymmetries, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience
Shimamura, Arthur
Professor
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Shimamura Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, frontal lobe function, basic memory research
Sulloway, Frank
Adjunct Professor
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Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Personality development and family dynamics, especially in relation to life history and creative achievement; evolutionary psychology; biological evolution, including reproductive success, anti-predator responses, and adaptive divergence in Darwin's finches and other avian species; history of science (Darwin, Freud, and revolutionary innovations)
Theunissen, Frederic
Professor
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Auditory Science Lab
Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Neural basis of vocal learning in songbirds; auditory physiology; speech perception
Walker, Matthew
Associate Professor
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Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Impact of sleep on human brain function, especially the role of sleep in: learning and memory; brain plasticity; emotional regulation; affective & clinical mood disorders and aging. These topics are addressed using combined cognitive and multimodal neuroimaging techniques.
Wallis, Jonathan
Associate Professor
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Wallis Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior (Area Head) - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Executive control; Goal-directed behavior
Whitney, David
Associate
Professor

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The Whitney Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior (Area Head)
Interests: Visual perception and attention; visually guided action; cognitive neuroscience
Xu, Fei
Professor
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The Xu Lab
Area(s):
Change, Plasticity & Development - Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests:
Cognitive and language development, including infant cognition, statistical inference across domains, physical and psychological reasoning, word learning, number representations, social cognition, language and thought, concept acquisition, psychology and philosophy.
Zhou, Qing
Assistant Professor
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Culture and Family Lab
Area(s):
Clinical Science
Interests: Developmental psychopathology, with an emphasis on the roles of temperament, emotion-related processing, and family socialization in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology and competence; cultural influences on socio-emotional development.

Faculty Listing - Emeriti Directory


Covington, Martin
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area: Social/Personality
Interests: Problem-solving and thinking; educational applications; creativity and affective
Cowan, Carolyn
Adjunct Professor Emerita
[Email] Area: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity & Development
Cowan, Philip
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests:
Clinical Science; Developmental
De Valois, Karen
Professor Emerita
[Email] Area: Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Vision, psychophysics, and physiology
Ervin-Tripp, Susan
Professor Emerita
[Email] Area: Developmental; Cognition
Interests:
Pragmatics, bilingualism, and language acquisition
Glickman, Stephen
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Comparative studies of species characteristic behavior patterns in mammals
Gough, Harrison
Professor Emeritus
[Email] Area: Social/Personality; Institute of Personality and Social Research
Interests:
Personality assessment, cross-cultural testing, creativity
Hafter, Ervin
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Langer, Jonas
Professor Emeritus
[Email] Area: Change, Plasticity & Development Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests:
Cognitive development in infancy and early childhood; primate cognitive development and evolution
Mendelsohn, Gerald
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area: Social/Personality; Clinical Science
Interests:
Personality; causal attribution and interpersonal attraction; individual differences in purposive behavior; computer mediated communication
Palmer, Stephen
Professor of the Graduate School
[Contact] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Visual perception, attention, and memory
Riley, Donald (Al)
Professor Emeritus
[Email] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Rosch, Eleanor
Professor of the Graduate School
[Contact] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests:
Cognition, concepts, causality, cross-cultural, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion
Slobin, Dan
Professor Emeritus
[Email] Area: Developmental; Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests:
Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Watson, John
Professor Emeritus
[Email] Area: Developmental
Interests:
Development in infancy, evolution of psychological processes in artificial life
Weinstein, Rhona
Professor of the Graduate School
[Email] Area: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests:
Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and the development of competence; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; social cognition and achievement motivation; school reform and the prevention of school failure; consultation, institutional change, and policy.
Wickens, Thomas
Professor Emeritus
[Contact] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests:
Quantitative models in cognitive psychology; statistics and data analysis
Zedeck, Sheldon
Professor of the Graduate School
[Contact] Area: Social/Personality
Interests: Industrial/organizational/social psychology/personnel; cross-cultural work values; decision-making research; work and family issues; statistics and research methodology
Zucker, Irving
Professor of the Graduate School
[Contact] Area: Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Biological rhythms; seasonal reproductive cycles; photoperiodism; energy balance; endocrinology, hibernation, temperature regulation

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