John R. Aiello, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Organizational psychology; privacy; interpersonal processes; nonverbal behavior
Sidney B. Auerbach, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison)
Serotonin; biochemistry; electrophysiology and behavior
Marsha Bates, Associate Research Professor of Psychology, CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers Neurocognitive functioning and alcohol
Nicholas J. Belkin, Professor of Library and Information Studies, SC&I; Ph.D., London
Information science and technology
Brenna H. Bry, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Missouri (Columbia)
Behavior analysis of adolescent substance use, including family variables
Gretchen Chapman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Medical decision making; physician reasoning; patient preferences and preventive health behavior
Brian Chu, Associate Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D.,Temple
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety and depression;
effectiveness research and dissemination of evidence-based practice
into community settings; psychotherapy process-outcomes research; and
multicultural issues in help-seeking and health care access
George H. Collier, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Indiana Ecological and nutritional analyses of learning, motivation,
and regulation
Richard J. Contrada, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Psychosocial factors in physical disease; psychophysiology; stress, self-regulation
Richard De Lisi, Professor of Educational Psychology and Dean, GSE; Ph.D., Catholic
Cognitive development
Maurice Elias, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
School-based interventions; prevention; social-emotional intelligence
Elizabeth E. Epstein, Associate Research Professor, CAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
Clinical psychology; alcohol studies
Yakov Epstein, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Effects of environment on behavior; communication patterns
Jacob Feldman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theory of categorization; computational vision
Hans Fisher, Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Illinois Alcoholism and neurotransmitter metabolism
Jerry A. Fodor, Professor of Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Psycholinguistics; cognition
Charles R. Gallistel, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Behavioral genetic approaches to the molecular basis of memory
Rochel Gelman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los
Angeles) Concept acquisition; number, cause, kinds of animate and
inanimate objects
Arnold L. Glass, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Semantic memory; psycholinguistics; computer models of syntactic parsing
Leonard W. Hamilton, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Brain and behavior relationships
Sandra L. Harris, Professor Emerita of Psychology, SAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Behavioral treatment of autism; impact of autism on family system
Jeannette M. Haviland, Professor Emerita of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Emotional development and the functions of emotion; adolescent emotion socialization
Pernille Hemmer, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS;
Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Episodic
and semantic memory; decision making in naturalistic environments
Judith Hudson, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., CUNY
Cognitive development; autobiographic memory development of planning skills
Lee Jussim, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Social perception; interpersonal expectations; stereotypes
Robert A. Karlin, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Hypnotizability; psychotherapy; psychopathology
Shalonda Kelly, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology,
GSAPP; Ph.D., Michigan Racial and ethnic impact on couple relationships;
prevention, assessment Eileen Kowler, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland
Eye movements; visual perception; cognitive control of movement; attention Kenneth Kressel, Professor of Psychology, FAS-N; Ph.D.,
Columbia
Mediation of conflict; interpersonal negotiations
Alexander W. Kusnecov, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Newcastle (UK) Psychoneuroimmunology; immune effects on brain and behavior
James W. Langenbucher, Associate Professor of Alcohol Studies, CAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Diagnosis and nosology; socioeconomics of alcohol and alcohol abuse
Richard R. Lau, Professor of Political Science, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles) Mass politics
Paul Lehrer, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Harvard
Respiratory psychophysiology; stress management; asthma; anxiety
Alan Leslie, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Oxford
Early cognitive development; object, number, and cause theory of mind; autism
Howard Leventhal, Board of Governors Professor of Psychology, SAS/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Social psychology of health and illness; emotion theory, age, and illness
Michael Lewis, Professor of Psychology, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Socioemotional and perceptual-cognitive development
Michael Leyton, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Group theory in perception, graphics, design, aesthetics, physics, and music
Joseph V. Martin, Professor of Biology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Southern California
Hormonal or drug modulation of GABAA receptor function in sleep and waking
Louis D. Matzel, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., SUNY (Binghamton)
Biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of memory induction and storage
Danielle McCarthy, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison) Development and refinement of treatments to help people stop smoking cigarettes
Lorraine McCune, Professor of Education, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental and educational psychology
John P. McGann, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Yale Neuroscience of smell; optical imaging; cellular/systems/behavioral
David Mechanic, University Professor and René Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences, SSW/IHHCPAR; Ph.D., Stanford
Decision making in medicine and psychiatry
Stanley Messer, Professor of Psychology and Dean, GSAPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Brief psychodynamic therapy; issues in psychotherapy integration
Melchi Michel, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Rochester
Bayesian models of perception; visual search; population
coding in V1
Eun Young Mun, Associate Professor of Psychology, CAS/GSAPP; Ph.D., Michigan State Underage drinking and drug use; risk and resilience; program evaluation
Julien Musolino, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Maryland Psycholinguistics
Daniel Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Self-perception in interpersonal, work, and role-related contexts
Timothy Otto, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., New Hampshire
Neurobiology of learning and memory; single-unit recording
Robert J. Pandina, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center of Alcohol Studies, GSAPP/CAS; Ph.D., Vermont
Alcohol and drug addiction; neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; life-span development
Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Visual perception; modeling and image processing
Larissa A. Pohorecky, Professor of Alcohol Studies, CAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Alcohol and stress in rats: behavioral and endocrine correlates
Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Saskatchewan (Canada)
Visual attention; theories of vision and imagery; cognitive architecture
Mary L. Rigdon, Assistant Research Professor of Psychology, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D.,
Arizona Decision sciences; experimental and behavioral economics; principal-agent
problems; trust; reciprocity
Shireen Rizvi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Washington Borderline personality disorder; dialectical behavior therapy; treatments
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Learning and memory; development processes in human infants; avian regulatory
Laurie A. Rudman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Minnesota Social cognition; attitudes; stereotypes and prejudice
Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan
Identity; stereotyping; close relationships; self-determination
Louis A. Sass, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Schizophrenia; assessment; philosophy of psychology
Maggie Shiffar, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers FAS-N;
Ph.D., Stanford Visual analysis of human and objective movement
Tracey J. Shors, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Southern California Sex differences and effects of stress on memory
formation; neurogenesis and learning
Manish Singh, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Irvine) Formal and
empirical study of visual object and surface representation Matthew Stone, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania Artificial intelligence (logic programming, proof theory;
probabilistic and decision-theoretic inference); linguistic theoryKarin J. Stromswold, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.D., Harvard
Cognitive and neural bases of language acquisition and processing Bruce Tesar, Associate Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS;
Ph.D., Colorado Computational learning and parsing; optimality theory; phonology Arthur Tomie, Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Colorado
Pavlovian conditioning; alcohol and drug abuse; psychopharmacology Elizabeth B. Torres, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Cognitive psychology; motor memory
David Vicario, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D.,
Rockefeller Sensorimotor processes involved in the acquisition and
production of learned behaviors
George Wagner, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago Neuropsychopharmacology of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia; neurotoxicology
Mark O. West, Professor of Psychology, SAS;
Ph.D., Bowman Gray Electrophysiology effect of dopamine system in rat
models of drug abuse; Parkinsonism
David A. Wilder, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Wisconsin
Social perception; intergroup relations; time
G. Terence Wilson, Oscar K. Buros Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Behavior therapy; social learning theory; treatment of eating disorders
Robert L. Woolfolk, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Texas (Austin)
Psychotherapy; stress; philosophical foundations of psychology
Jami Young, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Fordham
Treatment and prevention of adolescent depression; school-based mental health
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Beth Adelson, Associate Professor of Psychology, FAS-C; Ph.D., Harvard
Applied and theoretical issues in human problem solving; development of
computational models; human-computer interaction-based software systems
Mark Baker, Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparative syntax; linguistic universals; semantic roles; Amerindian and African languages
James R. Bergen, Research Staff, Sarnoff Laboratories, Princeton; Ph.D., Chicago Human visual processes and machine vision
Viviane M. Déprez,
Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology Syntactic theory;
Romance linguistics; language acquisition; Creole syntax
Nancy S. Fagley, Associate Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., Utah Decision making and cognitive processes of professional psychologists
Daniel B. Fishman, Professor and Director of Psychological Services, GSAPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Planning and evaluation of mental-health delivery systems
Michael A. Gara, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Personal identity; identity and psychopathology; person perception
William K. Hallman, Professor of Human Ecology, SEBS; Ph.D., South Carolina
Risk perception; risk communication; individual and community responses to environmental hazards
Shigeto Kawahara,
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts
Perceptual factors and
phonological patterns; intonation; verbal art; symbolism
Sandra Leiblum, Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Illinois
Female sexuality; menopause; infertility
Kristen Syrett, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, SAS/RuCCS; Ph.D., Northwestern Language acquisition; psycholinguistics; cognitive science; semantics; pragmatics; syntax
James T. Walkup, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., New School
Serious mental illness; combined mental and physical disorders; disability
John Worobey, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D.,
Pennsylvania State Socioemotional development; infant nutrition and behavior
*The department does not offer a terminal
master's program, although a master of science degree must be completed
as part of the program.
