Faculty
An asterisk (*) indicates faculty recruiting graduate students.
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Stephan Anagnostaras
Associate Professor
website
stephana@ucsd.edu
(858) 224-3164Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Addiction, and Intelligence.
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Adam Aron*
Professor
website
adamaron@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-1096Social Psychology of Collective Action on the Climate Crisis
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Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku*
Assistant Professor
Neurobiology of social behavior, Molecular analysis of neural circuits, Comparative neurobiology.
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David Barner*
Professor
Language acquisition, conceptual development, number representation.
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Timothy Brady*
Professor
Visual cognition, working memory, long-term memory.
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Nadia Brashier*
Assistant Professor
Memory and misinformation across the adult lifespan.
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Sandra Brown
Distinguished Professor
sandrabrown@ucsd.edu
(858) 444-6652Alcohol and drug abuse across the life span.
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Leslie Carver
Professor
website
ljcarver@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4634Brain basis of cognitive and social development.
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E. Nathaniel Chapman
Assistant Teaching Professor
echapman@ucsd.eduPersonality theories of psychopathology, development and treatment.
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Janna Dickenson
Assistant Teaching Professor
Sexual well-being, gender and sexual orientation, sexual fluidity, neural and physiological indicators of sexual response.
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Karen Dobkins
Professor
Mental well-being, climate change beliefs, dehumanization, sexuality and relationships.
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Victor Ferreira*
Professor
website
vferreira@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6303Psycholinguistics and language production, computational modelling.
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Emma Geller
Associate Teaching Professor
website
egeller@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2555Science of learning and instruction.
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Timothy Gentner*
Professor
website
tgentner@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-6763Behavioral neurobiology, auditory perception and cognition, animal communication.
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Michael Gorman*
Professor
website
mgorman@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2466Biological rhythms and behavioral neuroendocrinology.
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Christina Gremel*
Associate Professor
website
cgremel@ucsd.edu
(858) 534 -8933Behavioral neuroscience, neural bases of decision-making and addiction.
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Christine Harris*
Professor
website
charris@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-4507Human Emotion.
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Gail Heyman*
Professor
website
gheyman@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2482Social cognition, social and cultural influences on development.
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Chujun Lin*
Assistant Professor
Social Cognition, Person Perception, Computational modeling
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Bria Long*
Assistant Professor - Incoming effective 7/1/24
Development of perception and cognition; early word learning; computational modeling.
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Michael McCullough*
Professor
Evolutionary psychology, prosocial behavior, empathy, forgiveness and revenge.
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Craig McKenzie*
Professor
website
cmckenzie@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-8075Judgment, decision-making, and reasoning.
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Cory Miller*
Professor
Neuroscience and Behavior.
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Hal Pashler
Distinguished Professor
website
hpashler@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3974Human learning, attention, cognition.
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Celeste Pilegard
Associate Teaching Professor
Cognition and instruction.
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Lindsey Powell*
Assistant Professor
Infant cognition and brain function; social development; social learning
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Timothy Rickard
Professor
Human learning and knowledge representation from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience.
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Adena Schachner*
Assistant Professor
website
schachner@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3676Social cognition, cognitive development, causal inference, mental state inference, music cognition.
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John Serences*
Professor & DEPARTMENT CHAIR
website
jserences@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3686Attention and perceptual decision making.
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Ed Vul
Professor
website
evul@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4401Probabilistic inference under cognitive limitations.
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Caren Walker*
Associate Professor
website
carenwalker@ucsd.edu
(858) 246-2434Cognitive development, causal inference, abstract reasoning, concept acquisition, imagination.
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Piotr Winkielman
Professor
website
Social cognition, emotion-cognition interactions, embodiment, (un)awareness.
pwinkielman@ucsd.edu
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John Wixted*
Distinguished Professor
website
jwixted@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3956Human memory, animal cognition, psychopathology.
Other Researchers Recruiting Graduate Students
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Nicholas Oesch*
Assistant Research Scientist
Emeriti Faculty
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Stuart Anstis
Emeritus Professor
sanstis@ucsd.eduVisual perception, motion perception, auditory and tactual perception, and cross-model integration.
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Richard Atkinson
President Emeritus
rca@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-3979Mathematical and cognitive psychology.
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Michael Cole
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
mcole@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-2989The effects of culture on cognitive development.
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Diana Deutsch
Emeritus Professor
ddeutsch@ucsd.edu
(858) 453-1558Music perception, auditory illusions.
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Vladimir J. Konecni
Emeritus Professor
vkonecni@ucsd.eduSocial psychology, psychology of music, experimental aesthetics, psychology of law.
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James Kulik
Emeritus Professor
jkulik@ucsd.eduSocial psychology, behavioral medicine.
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Donald Macleod
Emeritus Professor
dmacleod@ucsd.eduVisual mechanisms in humans.
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Jean Mandler
Emeritus Professor
jmandler@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3937Cognitive development.
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Don Norman
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
dnorman@ucsd.eduFounding Director, Design Lab, UC San Diego (now emeritus)
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Vilayanur Ramachandran
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
website
vramachandran@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6240 or (858) 534-7907Cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, physiological psychology.
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Laura Schreibman
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
lschreibman@ucsd.eduBehavior modification, infantile autism, applied behavior analysis.
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Larry Squire
Emeritus Distinguished Professor
website
lsquire@ucsd.edu
(858) 642-3628Biology of memory, human amnesia.
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Ben Williams
Emeritus Professor
bawilliams@ucsd.eduLearning and motivation, history of psychology.
In Memoriam
Ebbe Ebbesen