Department Highlights

Dr. Fei Xu has been elected as a 2024 fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) within the psychology section. Congratulations!

On March 21st, 2025 Dr. Nancy Liu was awarded the APTC (Association of Psychology Training Clinic) Training Innovation Award. This award is intended to honor a member clinic of APTC and it’s director who have implemented a meaningful innovation that positively impacted the training, research and...

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

Heather (Ferrante) Cathrall

I graduated Cal in 2004 with degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Science.  I obtained my Masters in BioMedical Ethics from the University of Pennyslvania.  I currently live in the Philadelphia...

Allison Sekuler

Happy to announce that starting September 1, I'll be the Vice President Research and Sandra A. Rotman Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at Baycrest Health Sciences (University of Toronto), where I'...

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...