PBS faculty and their trainees conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and are recognized as world-class contributors to their fields. In addition, we have numerous faculty and teaching assistants who have been recognized for excellence in mentoring and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. All of these efforts are supported by the outstanding staff and students who are key to the success of our department.
Most members of our department are present in this directory, which can be filtered by Research Areas, Center and Institute Affiliations, and/or Positions. To see groups of researchers with similar interests, regardless of their research areas, try entering relevant search terms below.
Professor
Technology and learning in preschoolers; early math skills in low-SES children; understanding and preventing academic and behavior problems.
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Lecturer
My research uses neuroimaging techniques to explore the relationship between attention and language processing across the life span.
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Our lab focuses on understanding circuit functions for social behavior and social recognition throughout life.
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer II, Coordinator of Online Instruction
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Professor
I study various aspects of visual cognition, focusing on visual attention, visual search, and the interference between targets and distractors in complex visual scenes.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer, Honors Program Director
Early conceptual development; Infants' understanding of objects, agents, and the socio-moral behavior of other people.
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and computational modeling.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor
Psychotherapy process, outcome, integration; patient, therapist, relational factors; patient-centered, measurement-based care; psychotherapy training, dissemination; adult depression, anxiety
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology
Provost Professor
Prejudice and stereotyping; implicit social cognition; self-concept, STEM education.
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Lecturer
My teaching interests include the development of cognitive control and executive functions, and the factors that influence mechanisms underlying these abilities in both typical and atypical cases.
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Professor
Self-Regulation; Child/Adolescent Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development; Parenting and Adult Development; Developmental Psychopathology; Individual Differences
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Assistant Professor
Early-life Exposure to Trauma and Violence; Developmental Psychopathology of PTSD; Culture and Mental Health; Intervention Adaptation and Evaluation
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Assistant Professor
Early childhood psychopathology; normative vs. impaired emotion regulation; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; pediatric irritability; early childhood therapeutic interventions
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Professor, Interim Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Early development of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders in preschool children and toddlers. Interests include executive function, emotion regulation, parenting, and culture.
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Feldman-Vorwerk Family Professor in Social Psychology
Affect and cognition; social cognition; stigma and mental illness; emotions and medical decision-making; diagnostic error in medicine
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Associate Professor
My research focuses on speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Reward-based learning and decision making; Motor learning and performance; Developmental changes in adolescence; fMRI; EEG; EMG; eye tracking; hormone assays.
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Professor
Cognitive aging in nonhuman primates, with particular interest in Alzheimer's disease, sex steroids and women's cognitive health
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor
Peace psychology. Emotion, social cognition; intergroup relations.
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Assistant Professor
Development of social cognition across human and nonhuman primates; cognitive bias; intergroup relations; race, gender, social status; stress and resilience
Research Area:
Developmental Science
Director of Psychological Services Center, Lecturer
Dr. Martell's scholarly activity has focused on the development of behavioral activation in the treatment of depression and on applying CBT in an affirmative fashion with LGBT clients.
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor
Learning and the development of attention and executive functions across early to middle childhood; self regulation, emotion processing, and the influence of early adversity on development; EEG; ERP.
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Assistant Professor
Close relationships and health across sociocultural contexts; Discrimination and health in ethnic minority and immigrant children and adolescents.
Research Area:
Developmental Science, Social Psychology
Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in the department is teaching and advising. My background is in neuroscience and behavior.
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Cellular and network mechanisms of motivation, learning, and executive functions. Psychiatric diseases resulting from disruption of these neural systems.
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor and Honors Faculty
Cognitive, neural (fMRI/EEG), and developmental mechanisms underlying the acquisition and emergence of uniquely human and culturally-transmitted abilities such as reading and mathematics.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Assistant Professor
Flexibility and Plasticity in Maternal Brain Circuitry across Postpartum
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor, Department Chair
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Professor
Dr. Ready earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Univ of Iowa. Internship and clinical neuropsychology fellowship were at Brown Univ. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Research Area:
Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor
Influences of social factors, including peers and stigma, on health behaviors and outcomes. Improving health promotion interventions.
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Professor
We study hormone action and production in brain circuits using a variety of approaches.
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor
Recognition memory and reasoning. Research tools include signal detection analyses and event-related potentials. I am not accepting new students.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Neurocognitive research on basic auditory perception, speech perception, and selective attention with the goal of helping listeners (including children and older adults) understand speech in noise.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor
Physiology and cognitive functions of sleep in development and aging; learning and memory; sleep (polysomnography); activity monitoring (actigraphy).
Research Area:
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director
I explore human memory as it unfolds in time by applying computational models that predict both accuracy and response time data. I also investigate methods for improving statistical reasoning.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor
Psycholinguistics, including lexical and syntactic processing in comprehension; eye movements in reading.
Research Area:
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor
Prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, status inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination, collective action, social change, peace and reconciliation.
Research Area:
Social Psychology
Lecturer, Program Director DDHS
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families
Research Area:
Developmental Science
