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Psychological Science Faculty

Jessica Borelli

Jessica Borelli
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Professor of Psychological Science

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

Elizabeth Cauffman

Elizabeth Cauffman
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Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law
Ph.D. Temple University
4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy

Susan Turk Charles

Susan Turk Charles
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Professor of Psychological Science 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

Chuansheng Chen

Chuansheng Chen
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Distinguished Professor of Psychological 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

Amy L. Dent

Amy L. Dent
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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

Pia Dietze
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Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. New York University
(949) 824-2627
SBSG 4101
Specializations
social psychology, social class, economic inequality, social cognition, and intergroup relations

Peter H. Ditto

Peter H. Ditto
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Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. Princeton University
(949) 824-1844
4536 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning

Şule Güney

Şule Güney
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Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of New South Wales, Australia
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SBSG 4538
Specializations
Judgment and decision making under risk and ambiguity, strategic decision making, cognitive psychology

Jutta Heckhausen

Jutta Heckhausen
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Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science

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

J. Zoe Klemfuss

J. Zoe Klemfuss
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science

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

Kate Kuhlman

Kate Kuhlman
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
developmental psychopathology, psychoneuroimmunology, psychoneuroendocrinology, early life stress, and adolescent depression.

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Elizabeth F. Loftus
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Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; School of Law

Ph.D. Stanford University
(949) 824-3285
2393 Social Ecology 2
Specializations
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law

Angela Lukowski

Angela Lukowski
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science

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

Elizabeth A. Martin

Elizabeth A. Martin
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science

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

Kristine Molina

Kristine Molina
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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
4345 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
racism & discrimination, social inequality, health (in)equity, Latinx health, critical & feminist psychology

Candice L. Odgers

Candice L. Odgers
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Professor of Psychological Science, 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

Paul K. Piff

Paul K. Piff
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science

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

Sarah Pressman

Sarah Pressman
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Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health

Jodi Quas

Jodi Quas
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Professor of Psychological Science 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

Jenny Rinehart

Jenny Rinehart
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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.

Jason Schiffman

Jason Schiffman
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Director of Clinical Training, Professor of Psychological Science
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

Stephen Schueller

Stephen Schueller
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
clinical psychology, depression, mHealth, technology, implementation science, treatment and prevention, positive psychology

Nicholas Scurich

Nicholas Scurich
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Department Chair, Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law and Society

Ph.D. University of Southern California
(949) 824-4046
4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment

Roxane Cohen Silver

Roxane Cohen Silver
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Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, 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

Oliver Sng

Oliver Sng
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University
4304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations
social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, stereotyping, behavioral ecology

Julian F. Thayer

Julian F. Thayer
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Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science
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

DeWayne Williams
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Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
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

Ilona S. Yim

Ilona S. Yim
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Professor of Psychological Science

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

Alyson Zalta

Alyson Zalta
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science
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

Joanne F. Zinger

Joanne F. Zinger
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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