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Lisa Feldman Barrett, Professor (Ph.D. University of Waterloo, 1992)—Emotion. The structure of emotion. The influence of language and conceptual knowledge in emotion perception and emotion experience. Individual variation in affective processing. Sex differences in emotion. |
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Hiram Brownell, Professor (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1978)—Cognitive neuropsychology: how injury to various parts of the brain can selectively impair linguistic and cognitive ability; language: theory of mind, discourse, narrative, and lexical semantics; methodology. |
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Donnah Canavan, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1969)—Effects of shared enthusiasm; the development of individual differences: fear of success, healthy, and conventional orientations to success; psychological separateness and narcissism; psychology of self-esteem and of adult children of alcoholics. |
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Sara Cordes, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2005)—Cognitive development; Numerical cognition; Infant representations of quantity Developmental behavioral economics; Adult and child psychophysics of quantity |
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Randolph Easton, Professor (Ph.D. University of New Hampshire, 1974)—Perceptual and cognitive processes; spatial representation and imagery; relations among the perceptual systems; visual dominance; sensory substitution in the handicapped. |
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Elizabeth Kensinger, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)—Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: The effect of emotional content on memory; specifically, the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which emotion influences the vividness and accuracy of memory, and how these influences change across the adult lifespan; research questions are investigated through behavioral testing of young and older adults and functional neuroimaging (fMRI). |
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Ramsay Liem, Professor (Ph.D. University of Rochester, 1970)—Community Psychology (intergenerational transmission of political trauma, human rights and mental health); Asian American/Korean American Studies (Asian American history and ethnic identity formation). |
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Sean MacEvoy, (Ph.D. Brown University, 2003)—Human visual neuroscience, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and psychophysics: neural mechanisms of form perception and object recognition; perceptual learning; functional organization of the human visual cortex. History of neuroscience. |
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Michael Moore, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1978)—Children's participation in organized sport: parent-child interactions, emotional development; Cognitive development: memory organization, children's understanding of the "rules of the game," automatic processing. |
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Gilda Morelli, Associate Professor (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1987)—The social, cultural, and economic circumstances related to young children's experiences, learning and development, with an interest in children and families in US and African communities. Domestic and international social policies and programs for young children and families. |
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Michael Numan, Professor (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1973)—Neurobiology of motivation, emotion, and social behavior; specifically neurobiology of parental behavior in rodents and the effects of hormones and experience on the relevant hypothalamic, limbic, and striatal circuits. |
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Gorica Petrovich, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Southern California, 1997)—Neurobiology of motivation and feeding behavior; functional organization of the brain systems mediating environmental control of food intake, specifically interactions between the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hypothalamus; modulation of hunger and satiety mechanisms by learning and stress. |
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Karen Rosen, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1984)—Social and emotional development during infancy and early childhood; parent-child attachment relationships; sibling relationships. |
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James A. Russell, Professor (Ph.D. UCLA, 1974)—Emotion. The expression and recognition of emotion through faces. Children's understanding of emotion and the development of emotional experience. Cultural influences on emotion. The distinction between mood and emotion and scientific taxonomies of each. |
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Ehri Ryu, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. Arizona State University, 2008)—Quantitative Psychology: multilevel modeling; model fit assessment in multilevel structural equation modeling; two approaches to analyzing multivariate multilevel data; longitudinal data analysis. |
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Scott Slotnick, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998)—Cognitive Neuroscience: Neural mechanisms of visual memory; control regions and sensory effects associated with retrieval of visual memories; subjective experience during memory retrieval; cortical substrates associated with visual feature-based perception/attention. |
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Maya Tamir, Assistant Professor (Ph. D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004)—Emotion regulation; Cognition, motivation and emotion; Social cognition; Individual differences in emotion and information processing. The interpersonal and intrapersonal functions of emotions and their potential variation across individuals. Learning about the utility of emotions. The role of hedonic and instrumental functions of emotions in emotion regulation. |
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Joseph Tecce, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Catholic University, 1961)—Psychophysiology of health, including body languages as indicators of emotions and stress and cognitive-behavioral methods to control stress. |
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Alexa Veenema, Assistant Professor |
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Ellen Winner, Professor (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1978)—Developmental psychology of the arts in typical and gifted children; cognition and learning in the arts; transfer of learning from arts to non-arts learning. |