Psychological Science Faculty
Jessica Borelli 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Elizabeth Cauffman 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Susan Turk Charles 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Chuansheng Chen 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
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 Psychological Science Ph.D. New York University (949) 824-2627 SBSG 4101 Specializations: social psychology, social class, economic inequality, social cognition, and intergroup relations Faculty website: Note: **Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Peter H. Ditto 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 Faculty website: |
Nancy Guerra Professor of Psychological Science Ed.D., Harvard University (949) 824-5466 5300 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Faculty website: |
Şule Güney Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychological Science 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 Faculty website: |
Jutta Heckhausen 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Larry D. Jamner Professor of Psychological Science Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook (949) 824-8373 4302 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: health psychology, psychophysiology, pain, mHealth, experience sampling Faculty website: |
J. Zoe Klemfuss Assistant 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Kate Kuhlman Assistant 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. Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Elizabeth F. Loftus 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Angela Lukowski 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Elizabeth A. Martin 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Kristine Molina 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 Faculty website: |
Raymond W. Novaco Professor of Psychological Science Ph.D. Indiana University (949) 824-7206 4343 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions Faculty website: |
Candice L. Odgers 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 Faculty website: |
Paul K. Piff 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Sarah Pressman 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Jodi Quas 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
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. Faculty website: |
Jason Schiffman 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Stephen Schueller 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Nicholas Scurich 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 Faculty website: |
Roxane Cohen Silver 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Oliver Sng Assistant Professor Ph.D. Arizona State University 4304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, stereotyping, behavioral ecology Faculty website: |
Julian F. Thayer 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 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 Faculty website: |
Ilona S. Yim 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 Faculty website: Note: ** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle |
Alyson Zalta 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 Faculty website: |
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 Faculty website: |