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

Natasha Dagys Limones

After finishing a double major in Psychology and Music at Cal, I went on to complete a MA and PhD in Education-School Psychology, also at Cal. I am a credentialed school psychologist and have a...

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...

Kenny Lauer

I run Marketing and Digital for the Golden State Warriors. That was not by plan but what was by plan was to study Psychology at CAL. I went to a math / science / Computer magnet program in San...