Faculty

Name Research Areas Research Interests
Ozlem AYDUKAssociate ProfessorContact Information Social-Personality Relationships and Social Cognition Lab

Close relationships; emotion regulation; development of self-regulation in children
Sonia BishopAssistant ProfessorContact Information Clinical Science, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

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.
Silvia BungeAssociate ProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Building Blocks of Cognition Laboratory

Neural mechanisms, development, and plasticity of higher cognitive functions in humans
Joseph J. CAMPOSProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Infant Studies Laboratory

Social-emotional development in infancy, especially emotional communication and perception of emotion; and the relation of motor development to cognitive, social and emotional development
Serena CHENProfessorContact Information Social-Personality Self, Identity and Relationships (SIR) Lab

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
Mark T. D ESPOSITOProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior D'Esposito Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Working memory and frontal lobe function, functional MRI, cognitive neuroscience
Jack L. GALLANTProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Gallant Lab

Interests: Visual neuroscience, attention
Alison GOPNIKProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Gopnik Cognitive Development Lab

Cognitive development, causal learning, psychology and philosophy
Tom GriffithsAssociate ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Computational Cognitive Science Lab

Computational models of cognition, including causality, categorization, inductive inference, probabilistic reasoning, language learning, and language evolution; machine learning; Bayesian statistics
Allison HarveyProfessorContact Information Clinical Science Golden Bear Sleep and Mood Research Clinic

Adult and child psychopathology, particularly sleep disorders, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders. Comorbidity. Transdiagnostic approaches. Treatment development. Behavior change. Cognitive behavior therapy.  Interactions between cognitive, emotional and biological processes. 
Erik David HesseAssociate Adjunct ProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development

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
Stephen HINSHAWProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Clinical Science Hinshaw Lab

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.
Richard IVRYChair & ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Cognition and Action Laboratory (CognAc)

Cogntion and action, with an emphasis on how people select actions, learn skills, and produce coordinated movements.  
Lucia F. JACOBSProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior The Jacobs Cog-Evo-Devo Lab

Cognitive and brain evolution, adaptive patterns in spatial memory, spatial navigation, cognitive sex differences and decision making
Oliver P. JOHNProfessorContact Information Social-Personality Oliver John's Berkeley Personality Lab

Self-concept; self-perception accuracy and biases; personality development and assessment across the life span; emotion experience and expression; cultural differences
Sheri JohnsonProfessorContact Information Clinical Science Cal-Mania (Calm) Program

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.
Dacher KELTNERProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Social-Personality Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory

Social/Personality: emotion; social interaction; individual differences in emotion; conflict and negotiation; culture
John F. KIHLSTROMProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior, Social-Personality The Human Ecology of Memory

Cognition in personal and social contexts; unconscious mental processes; memory; hypnosis; social cognition; personality; experimental psychopathology; health cognition and behavior
Robert Thomas KNIGHTProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Knight Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Attention and memory; neuropsychology and physiology; cognitive neuroscience
Lance KriegsfeldAssociate ProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience Kriegsfeld Lab

Behavioral neuroendocrinology, circadian biology, reproductive behavior and physiology, seasonality/photoperiodism, behavioral genetics, behavioral neuroscience
Ann M. KRINGProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Science, Social-Personality Emotion and Social Interaction Laboratory, UC Berkeley Mental Health

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.
Robert W LEVENSONProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development, Clinical Science, Social-Personality Berkeley Psychophysiology Laboratory

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.
Tania LombrozoAssistant ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Concepts and Cognition Lab

Cognitive psychology of explanation and understanding; concepts, theories, and causality; moral reasoning; philosophy and psychology
Mary MAINProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development

Attachment; animal behavior; ethology; narrative; Gricean maxims as related to life-history descriptions; children's drawings and other representational products as related to attachment

Emerging Interests: Attachment and psychophysiology; psychopathy; epigenetics

 
Christina MASLACHProfessorContact Information Social-Personality

Social: job burnout and health psychology; individuation and dissent, gender roles
Iris MaussAssistant ProfessorContact Information Social-Personality Emotion & Emotion Regulation Lab at Berkeley

Emotion and emotion regulation; psychological health; psychophysiology; sociocultural norms and beliefs; aging and emotion regulation
Rodolfo MENDOZA-DENTONAssociate ProfessorContact Information Social-Personality Relationships and Social Cognition Lab

Intergroup Relations, Stigma, Prejudice, Culture, Education
Charlan Jeanne NEMETHProfessorContact Information Social-Personality

Social: influence processes; social interaction; dissent and cognition; decision making and creativity in small groups and organizations: psychology of entrepreneurs and creative scientists
Kaiping PENGAssociate ProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development Culture and Cognition Lab

Social: cultural psychology, culture and cognition, reasoning and judgment across cultures and domains, and cross-cultural understandings
William PRINZMETALAdjunct ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

 Interests: Visual perception, attention and cognition
Lynn C ROBERTSONAdjunct ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Cognitive Neuropsychology: Attention Laboratory

Attention and perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations. Functional hemisphere asymmetries, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience
Arthur P SHIMAMURAProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Cognitive neuroscience, frontal lobe function, basic memory research, aesthetic science, psychocinematics
Frank J SullowayAdjunct ProfessorContact Information Social-Personality

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)
Frederic THEUNISSENProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Auditory Science Lab

Neural basis of vocal learning in songbirds; auditory physiology; speech perception
Matthew P. WalkerAssociate ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory

Impact of sleep on human brain function, especially the role of sleep in: learning and memory; brain plasticity; emotional regulation; affective and clinical mood disorders and aging. These topics are addressed using combined cognitive and multimodal neuroimaging techniques.
Jonathan David WALLISAssociate ProfessorContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Wallis Lab

Executive control; Goal-directed behavior
David WhitneyAssociate ProfessorContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Whitney Laboratory

Visual perception and attention; visually guided action; cognitive neuroscience.
Fei XuProfessorContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior Xu Lab

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.
Qing ZhouAssistant ProfessorContact Information Clinical Science Culture and Family Lab

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.
Name Research Areas Research Interests
Martin V. COVINGTONProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Social-Personality

Problem-solving and thinking; educational applications; creativity and affective
Philip COWANProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Clinical Science

Clinical Science; Developmental
Carolyn Pape COWANAdjunct Professor EmeritaContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Clinical Science

Research and clinical work with couples making the transition to parenthood and children making the transition to elementary and high school. Focus on couple relationships during adult life transitions, marital distress, parenting issues and supporting fathers' involvement.
Susan M. ERVIN-TRIPPProfessor EmeritaContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Pragmatics, bilingualism, and language acquisition
Stephen E. GLICKMANProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development Director, Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology, and Reproduction

Comparative studies of species characteristic behavior patterns in mammals
Harrison G GOUGHProfessor EmertusContact Information Social-Personality

Personality assessment, cross-cultural testing, creativity
Ervin R. HAFTERProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Auditory attention and the role of semantic processing in the cocktail party problem. Cognitive issues related to hearing impairment and their effects on the design and impact of hearing aids.
Ravenna M. HELSONAdjunct Professor EmeritaContact Information Social-Personality The Mills Longitudinal Study: The Mills Lab
Jonas LANGERProfessor EmeritusContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience, Change, Plasticity & Development Institute of Human Development

Cognitive development in infancy and early childhood; primate cognitive development and evolution
Gerald A. MENDELSOHNProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Social-Personality

Personality; causal attribution and interpersonal attraction; individual differences in purposive behavior; computer mediated communication
Stephen E. PALMERProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Visual Perception Laboratory

Visual perception, attention, and memory
Donald A. RILEYProfessor Emeritus Contact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Cognitive processes in animals
Eleanor H. ROSCHProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Cognition, concepts, causality, cross-cultural, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion
Dan I. SLOBINProfessor EmeritusContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development, Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural
Karen K. DE VALOISProfessor EmeritaContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience

Vision, psychophysics, and physiology
John S. WATSONEmeritusContact Information Change, Plasticity & Development

Development in infancy, evolution of psychological processes in artificial life
Rhona S. WEINSTEINProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Clinical Science

Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and positive development; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; educational equity and school reform.
Sheldon ZEDECKProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Social-Personality

Industrial/organizational/social psychology/personnel; cross-cultural work values; decision-making research; work and family issues; statistics and research methodology
Irving ZUCKERProfessor of the Graduate SchoolContact Information Behavioral Neuroscience Biological Rhythms Laboratory

Biological rhythms; seasonal reproductive cycles; photoperiodism; energy balance; endocrinology, hibernation, temperature regulation
Name Research Areas Research Interests
Cameron Paul ANDERSONAssociate Professor, Haas School of BusinessContact Information Social-Personality

Power and politics; negotiation and conflict resolution; emotion; groups and teams.
Martin S. BANKSProfessor, OptometryContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Banks Lab

Visual space perception and sensory combination
Dana R. CarneyAssistant Professor, Haas School of BusinessContact Information Social-Personality

Social judgment, decision making, nonverbal communication, social cognition, power and influence, prejudice and discrimination.
Paul EkmanProfessor Emeritus of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco Social-Personality

Emotion, expression, and deception.
Jack GLASERAssociate Professor of Public PolicyContact Information Social-Personality

Prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination; intergroup conflict and hate crime; unconscious affect and cognition; political decision making and behavior; political ideology; criminal justice decision making.
Ming HsuAssistant Professor, Haas School of BusinessContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior Neuroeconomics Laboratory

The neural basis of economic and consumer decision-making. 
Robert J. MACCOUNProfessor of Public Policy and LawContact Information Social-Personality

Public issues such as drug use, jury decisions, sexual orientation and military cohesion, child support, and the politics of research; basic theory and research on social influence processes.
Ricardo F. MuñozProfessor of Psychology, University of California, San Francisco Clinical Science Latino Mental Health Research Program, Internet World Health Research Center

Evidence-based Internet interventions for health in Spanish and English, prevention and treatment of depression, and smoking cessation.
Kurt C. ORGANISTAAssociate Professor, School of Social WelfareContact Information Clinical Science
Victoria PlautAssistant Professor of LawContact Information Social-Personality Culture, Diversity, and Intergroup Relations Lab

Diversity, intergroup relations, prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, inclusion and belonging, culture, self, and well-being
Michael RANNEYProfessor, EducationContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior

Nature of explanations, in both formal and informal domains; representation and reorganization of knowledge about lay people's knowledge of physics.
William M. RUNYANProfessor of the Graduate School, Social WelfareContact Information Social-Personality
Michael Andrew SILVERAssistant Professor, OptometryContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior The Silver Lab

The neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning.
Lonnie R. SNOWDENProfessor, School of Public HealthContact Information Clinical Science
David WESSELProfessor, MusicContact Information Cognition, Brain & Behavior
Robb WillerAssociate Professor, SociologyContact Information Social-Personality

Prosocial behavior, political psychology, moral psychology, dynamics of status hierarchies, social networks, social norms and pluralistic ignorance
Frank WORRELLProfessor, EducationContact Information Social-Personality

Psychosocial variables that are related to academic achievement and psychological functioning in adolescent, ethnic/racial minority, and gifted and talented populations in the U.S. and other countries; the psychometric properties of scores on instruments used to measure psychosocial constructs.