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Social and Personality Psychology

Social and Personality Psychology

Research in this area focuses on theory-based empirical work that addresses a variety of important social issues across the life span. Our faculty conduct research on topics including social cognition and decision-making; the effects of emotions on reasoning and memory; subjective well-being; self and identity across cultures; control behavior; personality resilience; interpersonal relations; adaptation to stressful life events; risk perception; and psychology and law.

Faculty

Pia Dietze, Ph.D. – New York University
Social psychology, social class, economic inequality, social cognition, and intergroup relations
Peter Ditto, Ph.D. – Princeton University
Social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology
Şule Güney, Ph.D. – University of New South Wales, Australia
Judgment and decision making under risk and ambiguity, strategic decision making, cognitive psychology
Jutta Heckhausen, Ph.D. – University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Life-span developmental psychology, motivation and developmental regulation in children, adolescents, and adults, control and health, cultural universals and differences in achievement behavior
Larry Jamner, Ph.D. – State University of New York, Stony Brook
Health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth
Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. – Stanford University
Human memory, psychology and the law, how facts, ideas, suggestions, and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories
Paul Piff, Ph.D. – University of California, Berkeley
Social hierarchy, privilege, power, social emotion, prosocial behavior and cooperation, morality and ethics, uncertainty, groups, field experiments
Sarah Pressman, Ph.D. – Carnegie Mellon University
Health psychology, positive emotions, stress physiology, psychosocial effects on physiology and health
Nicholas Scurich, Ph.D. – University of Southern California
Psychology and law, judgment and decision making, violence risk assessment
Roxane Cohen Silver, Ph.D. – Northwestern University
Coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism)
Oliver Sng, Ph.D. – Arizona State University
Evolution, culture, stereotyping, ecology
DeWayne Williams, Ph.D. – Ohio State University
Social health psychology, health disparities, psychophysiology, discrimination, stigma, prejudice, stereotyping, stress and health, self-regulation
Joanne Zinger, Ph.D. – University of California, Riverside
Expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology