Research in the area of affective science focuses on the effects of emotion, motivation, and values on human reasoning, behavior, and health in typical and atypical populations, across the life span, and across cultures.
*Please note that we are not currently recruiting into the affective science area. However, research in all of these topics can be pursued in the other 4 departmental areas: Clinical, Developmental, Health, and Social.
Faculty
Borelli, Jessica, Ph.D., Yale University
Attachment, parent-child relationships, developmental psychopathology, relational interventions, emotion, mental health
Campos, Belinda, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Culture, relationships, positive emotion, health
Cauffman, Elizabeth, Ph.D., Temple University
Adolescent development, mental health, psychopathy, juvenile justice, female delinquency, legal and social policy
Charles, Susan, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion
Chen, Chuansheng, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, brain imaging of language and mathematical learning
Ditto, Peter, Ph.D. Princeton University
Social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology
Heckhausen, Jutta, Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context
Jamner, Larry, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth
Martin, Elizabeth, Ph.D., University of Missouri
Adult psychopathology; schizotypy and schizophrenia; social anhedonia; emotional and social dysfunction; affective neuroscience
Novaco, Raymond, Ph.D., Indiana University
Anger, stress, violence, cognitive-behavioral interventions
Pressman, Sarah, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health
Quas, Jodi, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Memory development, the effects of stress on memory, emotional reactivity in childhood, childrens' involvement in the legal system, childrens' eyewitness testimony
Rinehart, Jenny, Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Health Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Sexual Victimization Prevention, Risk Perception
Silver, Roxane Cohen, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism)
Zalta, Alyson Clinical Psychology, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience, Prevention & Treatment
Zinger, Joanne, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
Expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology