Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science,* Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor David Vicario, Psychology Building, Busch Campus (848-445-8990)

Vice Chair, Graduate Studies: Professor George Wagner, Psychology Building, Busch Campus (848-445-2555)

Website: http://psych.rutgers.edu/graduate-program-overview

Members of the Graduate Faculty

John R. Aiello, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Michigan State
Organizational psychology; privacy; interpersonal processes; nonverbal 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

Kasia M. Bieszczad, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., California (Irvine)
Cortical plasticity; epigenetic mechanisms of learning and memory; auditory system; behavioral neuroscience; information storage

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; multicultural issues in help-seeking and health care access

Shana L. Cole, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., New York
Self-regulation; visual biases; self-control; health

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, GSE; Ph.D., Catholic
Cognitive development

Maurice Elias, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Connecticut
School-based interventions; prevention; social-emotional intelligence

Jacob Feldman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theory of categorization; computational vision

Rochel Gelman, Professor Emeritus 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

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

Alexander W. Kusnecov, 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

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, RWJMS; Ph.D., Pennsylvania
Socioemotional and perceptual-cognitive development

Teresa M. Leyro, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Vermont
Identifying the roles of cognitive-affective and biological vulnerability in the etiology and maintenance of substance abuse

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

Lorraine McCune, Professor of Education, GSE; Ed.D., Rutgers
Developmental and educational psychology

John P. McGann, Associate 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, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, 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

Thomas V. Papathomas, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, SE; Ph.D., Columbia
Visual perception; modeling and image processing

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

Laurie A. Rudman, Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Minnesota
Social cognition; attitudes; stereotypes and prejudice

Benjamin A. Samuels, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Molecular and neural circuit basis of treatment-resistant depression and anxiety

Louis A. Sass, Professor of Psychology, GSAPP; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Schizophrenia; assessment; philosophy of psychology 

Edward A. Selby, Assistant Professor of Psychology, SAS, Ph.D., Florida State
Research and treatment of suicidal and self-injurious behavior, personality disorders, and eating disorders

Tracey J. Shors, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Southern California
Sex differences and effects of stress on memory formation; neurogenesis and learning

Steven M. Silverstein, Professor of Psychiatry, University Behavioral Health Care and  Department of Psychiatry, RWJMS; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)
Visual perception impairments in schizophrenia and their computational bases

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

Daniel B. Fishman, Professor and Director of Psychological Services, GSAPP; Ph.D., Harvard
Planning and evaluation of mental-health delivery systems

Michael A. Gara, Professor of Basic Science, UBHC; 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

Robert La Rue, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology, SAS; Ph.D., Louisiana State
Applied behavior analysis; behavioral pharmacology; behavioral economics

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.