Psychology Faculty
Jessica Borelli
Professor of Psycholy
Ph.D., Yale University
(949) 824-3002
4552 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
developmental psychopathology, attachment, emotion, prevention of mental health problems in children and adolescents
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Elizabeth Cauffman
Professor of Psychology, Education and Law
Ph.D. Temple University
4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy
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Susan Turk Charles
Professor of Psychology and Nursing Science
Ph.D. University of Southern California
4570 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion
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Chuansheng Chen
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Science and Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, cognitive neuroscience, genes and behavior
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Amy L. Dent
Associate Professor of Teaching of Psychological Science
Ph.D. Duke University
4542 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
meta-analysis, academic context and consequences of self-regulation, educational and developmental psychology of academic learning
Pia Dietze
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. New York University
(949) 824-2627
SBSG 4101
Specializations:
social psychology, social class, economic inequality, social cognition, and intergroup relations
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Peter H. Ditto
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Princeton University
(949) 824-1844
4536 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning
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Şule Güney
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychology
Ph.D. University of New South Wales, Australia
TBD
SBSG 4538
Specializations:
Judgment and decision making under risk and ambiguity, strategic decision making, cognitive psychology
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Jutta Heckhausen
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
4316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context
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J. Zoe Klemfuss
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Cornell University
4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
narrative development; children’s autobiographical memory; sociocontextual influences on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being; children’s eyewitness abilities
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Kate Kuhlman
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
developmental psychopathology, psychoneuroimmunology, psychoneuroendocrinology, early life stress, and adolescent depression.
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Elizabeth F. Loftus
Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; Psychology; School of Law
Ph.D. Stanford University
(949) 824-3285
2393 Social Ecology 2
Specializations:
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law
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Angela Lukowski
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007
949-923-0331
4332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
cognitive development; language; sleep; Down syndrome; infancy and early childhood
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Elizabeth A. Martin
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Missouri
4318 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
clinical psychology; psychosis and psychosis risk; schizophrenia, schizotypy, and social anhedonia; emotion and social processes; assessment and classification of psychopathology
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Candice L. Odgers
Professor of Psychology, Director for Research and Faculty Development
Ph.D. University of Virginia
4326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
developmental and quantitative psychology; social inequalities and child health; new technologies and adolescent development
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Paul K. Piff
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
4324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
social psychology, group processes, altruism and cooperation, socioeconomic status, inequality, social emotion, moral judgment, ethics, uncertainty
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Sarah Pressman
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health
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Jodi Quas
Professor of Psychology and Nursing Science
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
(949) 824-7693
4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
memory development, children's involvement in the legal system
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Jenny Rinehart
Associate Professor of Teaching
Ph.D. University of New Mexico
4314 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
health psychology, clinical psychology, sexual victimization prevention, risk perception.
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Jason Schiffman
Director of Clinical Training, Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of Southern California
(949) 824-5574
SBSG 3101
Specializations:
identification and prevention of early psychosis, addressing issues of health disparities across racial/ethnic groups among individuals at clinical high-risk
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Stephen Schueller
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
clinical psychology, depression, mHealth, technology, implementation science, treatment and prevention, positive psychology
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Nicholas Scurich
Department Chair, Professor of Psychology, and Criminology, Law and Society
Ph.D. University of Southern California
4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment
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Roxane Cohen Silver
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Medicine, and Public Health; Vice Provost, Academic Planning and Institutional Research
Ph.D. Northwestern University
535 Aldrich Hall and 4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas), stress, social psychology, health psychology
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Oliver Sng
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Arizona State University
4304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, stereotyping, behavioral ecology
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Julian F. Thayer
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., New York University
4334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
Health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress, neuroimaging
DeWayne Williams
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
(949) 824-4366
4544 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
Social health psychology; Health disparities; Discrimination; Stigma; Prejudice; Stereotyping; Psychophysiology; Stress and health; Self-regulation
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Denise Werchan
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. Brown University
4566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
Developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociocultural contexts, self-regulation, attention & learning
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Ilona S. Yim
Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. University of Trier, Germany
4562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
stress and health; biopsychology; early life trauma; intimate partner violence; pregnancy and postpartum depression
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Alyson Zalta
Associate Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
(949) 490-2247
4556 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
clinical psychology, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience, treatment & prevention
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Joanne F. Zinger
Associate Professor of Teaching
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
(951) 662-3735 (cell)
4306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations:
social/personality psychology, language use, educational psychology, meta-analysis, and pedagogy
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