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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
Francis, Darlene
Assistant Professor
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The Francis Lab Virtual Link
Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Behavioral neuroscience, developmental psychobiology, animal models, stress, maternal care, gene-environment interaction
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
Assistant 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
Associate 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.
Hinshaw, Stephen
Chair & 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.
Hudson Kam, Carla
Associate Professor
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Language and Learning Lab
Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development - Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: First and second language acquisition: In particular, I am interested in how these processes may constrain the form of languages, and how they might influence how languages change over time
Ivry, Richard
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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Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Evolution and ecology of cognition, in particular spatial memory, navigation and reasoning
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
Assistant Professor
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Kriegsfeld Lab
Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience (Acting 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 - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Attachment; individual differences in relationship representation in discourse, drawing, and narrative; functional disorders of consciousness; ethology
Maslach, Christina
Professor
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Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Social: job burnout and health psychology; individuation and dissent, gender roles
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
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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
Rosch, Eleanor
Professor
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Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Cognition, concepts, causality, cross-cultural, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion
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
Theunissen, Frederic
Associate Professor
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Auditory Neurophysiology and Computational Neuroethology Lab
Area(s): Change, Plasticity & Development - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Neural basis of vocal learning in songbirds; auditory physiology; speech perception
Walker, Matthew
Assistant 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
Assistant Professor
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Wallis Lab
Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior (Area Head) - Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Executive control; Goal-directed behavior
Wickens, Thomas
Professor
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Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Quantitative models in cognitive psychology; statistics and data analysis
Xu, Fei
Professor
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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.
Zedeck, Sheldon
Professor
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Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Industrial/organizational/social psychology/personnel; cross-cultural work values; decision-making research; work and family issues; statistics and research methodology
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


Block, Jack
Ph.D., Stanford University
[Email] Area: Social/Personality
Covington, Martin
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
[Email] Area(s): Social/Personality
Interests: Problem-solving and thinking; educational applications; creativity and affective
Cowan, Carolyn
[Email] Area: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity & Development
Cowan, Philip
[Email] Area: Clinical Science; Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests:
Clinical Science; Developmental
Craik, Kenneth
[Email] Area: Social/Personality
De Valois, Karen
Ph.D., Indiana University  
[Email] Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Vision, psychophysics, and physiology
Ervin-Tripp, Susan
Ph.D., University of Michigan
[Email] Area: Developmental
Glickman, Stephen
Ph.D., McGill University  
[Email] Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience - Change, Plasticity & Development
Interests: Comparative studies of species characteristic behavior patterns in mammals
Gough, Harrison
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
[Email] Area: Social/Personality; Institute of Personality and Social Research
Interests:
Personality assessment, cross-cultural testing, creativity
Hafter, Ervin
[Email] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Keppel, Geoffrey
Ph.D., Northwestern University
[Email] Area: Quantitative
Langer, Jonas
Ph.D., Clark University
[Email] Area: Change, Plasticity & Development Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests:
Cognitive development in infancy and early childhood; primate cognitive development and evolution
Mendelsohn, Gerald
Ph.D., University of Michigan
[Email] Area: Social/Personality; Clinical Science Interests: Personality; causal attribution and interpersonal attraction; individual differences in purposive behavior; computer mediated communication
Palmer, Stephen
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
[Contact] Area(s): Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests: Visual perception, attention, and memory
Riley, Donald (Al)
Ph.D., Ohio State University
[Email] Area: Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Slobin, Dan
Ph.D., Harvard University
[Email] Area: Developmental; Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Interests:
Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Watson, John
Ph.D., Cornell University
[Email] Area: Developmental
Interests:
Development in infancy, evolution of psychological processes in artificial life
Weinstein, Rhona
Ph.D., Yale University
[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.
Zucker, Irving
Ph.D., University of Chicago
[Contact] Area(s): Behavioral Neuroscience
Interests: Biological rhythms; seasonal reproductive cycles; photoperiodism; energy balance; endocrinology, hibernation, temperature regulation

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