UCI Psychology/Faculty

Mathematical Psychology, learning, memory

Psychoacoustics, auditory attention

Visual perception & computer applications

Statistics, childcare and pre-kindergarten, evaluation

Neural mechanisms of emotionally influenced memory

Culture, Relationships, Positive Emotion, Health

Adolescent development, mental health, psychopathy, juvenile justice, female delinquency, legal and social policy

Emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion

Cross-cultural psychology, socialization of achievement, adolescent development, brain imaging of language and mathematical learning

Visual perception, psychophysics and neural networks

Development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment

Attitude theory and social problems research

Vision, color, attention, virtual reality

Stress physiology; psychoneuroimmunology; effects of social evaluation or rejection on emotional and physiological outcomes; self-conscious emotions; health psychology

Social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology

Community psychology, epidemiology, economic change

Memory, information processing, attention

Mathematical behavioral sciences

Expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology

Developmental psychology, work and family, mother-father-child relationships, parental involvement in education, transition to parenthood, autism

Developmental psychology, cross-cultural research, cultural, family and peer influences on "normal" and problematic adolescent development, transition to adulthood, origins and consequences of self-entitlement

Neural basis of visual perception, biological motion

Life-span developmental psychology, motivation and developmental regulation in children, adolescents, and adults, control and health, cultural universals and differences in achievement behavior

Neural organization of language and cognition

Human and machine vision

Cognitive science and mathematical models

Health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth

Linguistic theory, higher mental processes

Cultural influences on social inference, White racial identity, beliefs and attitudes on intergroup inequality, social and political ideology, person perception

Computational neuroscience, robotics

Mathematical and computational models of stimulus representation, categorization, memory, decision-making and problem solving

Relations between cognitive and emotional development, how emotions influence attention and memory, the development of children's strategies for coping with negative emotions

Human memory, psychology and the law, how facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories

Mathematical behavioral science

Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of early nutrition on development

Visual cortex, pulvinar nucleus, orientation selectivity, neurophysiology and anatomy, optical imaging, modified rabies virus

Synaptic plasticity, memory, LTP, glutamate receptors, ampakines, age-related neurodegeneration

Personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity, stress management, resilience through hardiness

Speech perception and its development

Neurobiology of learning and memory

The ethical implications of psychological categorization

fMRI, AC Magnetic Field Mapping by Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging

Measurement, logic and metacognition

Anger, violence, cognitive-behavioral interventions

Developmental psychopathology, longitudinal analysis of growth and change, effects of externalizing disorders on health

Linguistics, computational linguistics, language development, language change, Bayesian models

Social costs of inadequate employment, adverse effects of unemployment, progression of alcohol disorder, early onset drinking among adolescents

Memory development, the effects of stress on memory, emotional reactivity in childhood, childrens' involvement in the legal system, childrens' eyewitness testimony

Development of higher order reasoning; learning and memory

Mathematical behavioral science, consensus analysis, quantitative anthropology

Gerontology, social psychology, health psychology, social support and social networks

Human memory, EEG, fMRI neuroimaging, aging

Spatial perception, genetics

Cognitive development, language development, number concepts, conceptual change

Coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism)

Mental illness and criminal justice, personality disorder and antisocial behavior, violence risk assessment and treatment

Vision, perception, information processing, brain imaging

Linguistics, syntax, psycholinguistics

Perception, development, cortical dynamics

Neurological disorders affecting cognition, sensation and motor behaviors

Bayesian methods, model diagnostics, applications to biological and social sciences, sports and statistics

Computational models for knowledge extraction and processing, models for human memory and dynamic decision making, causal reasoning, Bayesian Networks

Health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, processes and outcomes of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration

Developmental and behavioral pediatrics

Use of expert evidence in the courtroom, including: Forensic science, particularly forensic DNA tests, Statistical testimony, Social science evidence of all types

Devevelopmental process & education, longitudinal methods, early child development, after-school programs

Risk perception, human judgment and decision making

Behavioral perinatology, biobehavioral processes, stress, pregnancy, fetal development, prematurity, fetal programming of health and disease, psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology

Child and adolescent psychopathology, ADHD across the life span, developmental health psychology, pharmacotherapy

Motor processing, visual search, handwriting

Mathematical psychology and visual perception

Psychobiology of stress, stress in pregnancy, women's health, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics, assessment of stress

Auditory perception, computational neuroscience, speech processing, cochlear, vestibular implants

Psychology Faculty	Faculty Name	Research	Department
Cognitive Sciences Faculty Psychology & Social Behavior Faculty MAIN HOME UC IRVINE HOME ** Member: National Academy of Sciences	William Batchelder	Mathematical Psychology, learning, memory	Cognitive Sciences
	Bruce Berg	Psychoacoustics, auditory attention	Cognitive Sciences
	Myron Braunstein	Visual perception & computer applications	Cognitive Sciences
	Alyssa A. Brewer	Visual neuroscience	Cognitive Sciences
	Margaret R. Burchinal	Statistics, childcare and pre-kindergarten, evaluation	Education
	Lawrence F. Cahill	Neural mechanisms of emotionally influenced memory	Neurobiology and Behavior
	Belinda Campos	Culture, Relationships, Positive Emotion, Health	Chicano/Latino Studies
	Elizabeth Cauffman	Adolescent development, mental health, psychopathy, juvenile justice, female delinquency, legal and social policy	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Susan Charles	Emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Chuansheng Chen	Cross-cultural psychology, socialization of achievement, adolescent development, brain imaging of language and mathematical learning	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Charles Chubb	Visual perception, psychophysics and neural networks	Cognitive Sciences
	K. Alison Clarke-Stewart	Development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Thomas J. Crawford	Attitude theory and social problems research	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Michael D'Zmura	Vision, color, attention, virtual reality	Cognitive Sciences
	Sally Dickerson	Stress physiology; psychoneuroimmunology; effects of social evaluation or rejection on emotional and physiological outcomes; self-conscious emotions; health psychology	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Peter H. Ditto	Social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology	Psychology & Social Behavior
	C. David Dooley	Community psychology, epidemiology, economic change	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Barbara Dosher	Memory, information processing, attention	Cognitive Sciences
	Jean-Claude Falmagne	Mathematical behavioral sciences	Cognitive Sciences
	Joanne Frattaroli	Expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Wendy A. Goldberg	Developmental psychology, work and family, mother-father-child relationships, parental involvement in education, transition to parenthood, autism	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Ellen Greenberger	Developmental psychology, cross-cultural research, cultural, family and peer influences on "normal" and problematic adolescent development, transition to adulthood, origins and consequences of self-entitlement	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Emily D. Grossman	Neural basis of visual perception, biological motion	Cognitive Sciences
	Jutta Heckhausen	Life-span developmental psychology, motivation and developmental regulation in children, adolescents, and adults, control and health, cultural universals and differences in achievement behavior	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Gregory Hickok	Neural organization of language and cognition	Cognitive Sciences
	Donald Hoffman	Human and machine vision	Cognitive Sciences
	Geoffrey Iverson	Cognitive science and mathematical models	Cognitive Sciences
	Larry Jamner	Health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Mary-Louise Kean	Linguistic theory, higher mental processes	Cognitive Sciences
	Eric Knowles	Cultural influences on social inference, White racial identity, beliefs and attitudes on intergroup inequality, social and political ideology, person perception	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Jeffrey L. Krichmar	Computational neuroscience, robotics	Cognitive Sciences
	Michael D. Lee	Mathematical and computational models of stimulus representation, categorization, memory, decision-making and problem solving	Cognitive Sciences
	Linda J. Levine	Relations between cognitive and emotional development, how emotions influence attention and memory, the development of children's strategies for coping with negative emotions	Psychology & Social Behavior
	** Elizabeth F. Loftus	Human memory, psychology and the law, how facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories	Psychology & Social Behavior Criminology, Law & Society
	** R. Duncan Luce	Mathematical behavioral science	Cognitive Sciences
	Angela F. Lukowski	Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of early nutrition on development	Psychology & Social Behavior
	David C. Lyon	Visual cortex, pulvinar nucleus, orientation selectivity, neurophysiology and anatomy, optical imaging, modified rabies virus	Cognitive Sciences
	Gary Lynch	Synaptic plasticity, memory, LTP, glutamate receptors, ampakines, age-related neurodegeneration	Psychiatry & Human Behavior
	Salvatore R. Maddi	Personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity, stress management, resilience through hardiness	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Virginia Mann	Speech perception and its development	Cognitive Sciences
	** James McGaugh	Neurobiology of learning and memory	Neurobiology and Behavior
	Kristen R. Monroe	The ethical implications of psychological categorization	Political Science Philosophy
	L. Tugan Muftuler	fMRI, AC Magnetic Field Mapping by Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Current Density Imaging	Radiological Sciences
	Louis Narens	Measurement, logic and metacognition	Cognitive Sciences
	Raymond W. Novaco	Anger, violence, cognitive-behavioral interventions	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Candice L. Odgers	Developmental psychopathology, longitudinal analysis of growth and change, effects of externalizing disorders on health	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Lisa S. Pearl	Linguistics, computational linguistics, language development, language change, Bayesian models	Cognitive Sciences
	JoAnn Prause	Social costs of inadequate employment, adverse effects of unemployment, progression of alcohol disorder, early onset drinking among adolescents	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Jodi Quas	Memory development, the effects of stress on memory, emotional reactivity in childhood, childrens' involvement in the legal system, childrens' eyewitness testimony	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Lindsey Richland	Development of higher order reasoning; learning and memory	Education
	A. Kimball Romney	Mathematical behavioral science, consensus analysis, quantitative anthropology	Cognitive Sciences
	Karen S. Rook	Gerontology, social psychology, health psychology, social support and social networks	Psychology & Social Behavior
	Michael D. Rugg	Human memory, EEG, fMRI neuroimaging, aging	Neurobiology and Behavior
	Kourosh Saberi	Spatial perception, genetics	Cognitive Sciences
	Barbara Sarnecka	Cognitive development, language development, number concepts, conceptual change	Cognitive Sciences
	Roxane Cohen Silver	Coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism)	Psychology & Social Behavior Medicine
	Jennifer Skeem	Mental illness and criminal justice, personality disorder and antisocial behavior, violence risk assessment and treatment	Psychology & Social Behavior
	** George Sperling	Vision, perception, information processing, brain imaging	Cognitive Sciences
	Jon Sprouse	Linguistics, syntax, psycholinguistics	Cognitive Sciences
	Ramesh Srinivasan	Perception, development, cortical dynamics	Cognitive Sciences
	Arnold Starr	Neurological disorders affecting cognition, sensation and motor behaviors	Neurology
	Hal S. Stern	Bayesian methods, model diagnostics, applications to biological and social sciences, sports and statistics	Statistics
	Mark Steyvers	Computational models for knowledge extraction and processing, models for human memory and dynamic decision making, causal reasoning, Bayesian Networks	Cognitive Sciences
	Daniel Stokols	Health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, processes and outcomes of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration	Planning, Policy & DesignPsychology & Social Behavior
James Swanson	Developmental and behavioral pediatrics	Pediatrics
William Thompson	Use of expert evidence in the courtroom, including: Forensic science, particularly forensic DNA tests, Statistical testimony, Social science evidence of all types	Criminology, Law & Society
Deborah L. Vandell	Devevelopmental process & education, longitudinal methods, early child development, after-school programs	Education
Elaine Vaughan	Risk perception, human judgment and decision making	Psychology & Social Behavior
Pathik Wadhwa	Behavioral perinatology, biobehavioral processes, stress, pregnancy, fetal development, prematurity, fetal programming of health and disease, psychoneuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology	Psychiatry & Human Behavior
W. C. Watt	Cognitive semiotics	Cognitive Sciences
Carol K. Whalen	Child and adolescent psychopathology, ADHD across the life span, developmental health psychology, pharmacotherapy	Psychology & Social Behavior
Charles E. (Ted) Wright	Motor processing, visual search, handwriting	Cognitive Sciences
John I. Yellott, Jr.	Mathematical psychology and visual perception	Cognitive Sciences
Ilona S. Yim	Psychobiology of stress, stress in pregnancy, women's health, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics, assessment of stress	Psychology & Social Behavior
Fan-Gang Zeng	Auditory perception, computational neuroscience, speech processing, cochlear, vestibular implants	Anatomy and Neurobiology