About the Program
Psychology as a scientific discipline aims to describe, understand, and predict the behavior of living organisms. In doing so, psychology embraces the many factors that influence behavior—from sensory experience to complex cognition, from the role of genetics to that of social and cultural environments, from the processes that explain behavior in early childhood to those that operate in older ages, and from typical development to pathological conditions. The Department of Psychology at Berkeley reflects the diversity of our discipline's mission covering six key areas of research: Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience; Clinical Science; Cognition; Cognitive Neuroscience; Developmental, and Social-Personality Psychology. Our program learning goals focus on honing methodological, statistical and critical thinking skills relevant to all areas of Psychology research, enabling students with sufficient breadth to retain perspective in the field of psychology and sufficient depth to permit successful independent and significant research.
The major academic objectives of the PhD program are for students to:
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Develop an understanding of the different theoretical and empirical frameworks that have defined and shaped the field
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Develop an understanding of the central questions and issues in contemporary psychology
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Develop expertise in one or more relevant research methodologies
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Build expertise in formulating testable hypotheses and designing appropriate studies
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Hone ability to critically evaluate scientific research
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Develop expertise in statistics and advanced data analytic approaches
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Develop an awareness of the importance of science to humanity while recognizing its limits (i.e., some scientific knowledge is culture-specific and may not be applicable to the human condition universally)
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Develop competence as a teacher of undergraduates and mentor to graduate students
Students select one of the following concentrations:
Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience: The Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience area encompasses faculty and students united by a common interest in the neurobiological/physiological bases of behavior, including but not limited to circadian and seasonal rhythms, decision-making, sex differentiation and behavior, energy balance, birdsong and animal communication, animal spatial orientation and navigation, gene-environment interactions, selective attention and visual perception, social behavior, attachment, developmental processes, physiological substrates of emotion and stress, and motivation. The methodologies currently employed by faculty and students cover the entire spectrum from the behavioral study of animals and humans to computational, cellular, molecular and neuroimaging analyses.
Clinical Science: Graduate students in Clinical Science combine rigorous research with hands-on clinical experience. In addition, students take courses that cover general areas of psychological science as well as more specialized areas based on a student’s interests. Most students will spend four to six years in residence at Berkeley plus one year at a Clinical Internship site, at or near the completion of the dissertation. Degrees are awarded after completion of the internship, even if the dissertation is completed earlier. The faculty advisor/mentor plays an important role in a student’s training. At the beginning of Year 1, each student is matched with a faculty advisor, usually one of the core Clinical Science Program Faculty, who supervises the student's research. In subsequent years, the student is free to continue working with that person or to seek a new research advisor. In addition to research supervision, the advisor works with the student in planning a program that fits that student's interests, while at the same time meeting program requirements. If a student is conducting research under the supervision of someone other than a core Clinical Science Program Faculty member (e.g., a faculty member in another area of the Psychology Department), then a core Clinical Science Program Faculty member is assigned to advise that student in matters related program requirements.
Cognition: The Cognition Program brings together faculty and students engaged in behavioral and computational investigations of fundamental cognitive processes, including learning, memory, categorization, reasoning, language, and perception. Our interdisciplinary approach borrows methods and insights from the cognitive sciences and other areas within the department.
Cognitive Neuroscience: Programs in Cognitive Neuroscience focus on neuroimaging and neuropsychological approaches to human behavior. Functional neuroimaging techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), are used to study the neural bases of human behavior. Neuropsychological methods assess varieties of psychological dysfunction associated with brain damage or disease. Areas of specialty within this track include Sensory and Perceptual Processes, Attention and Working Memory, Learning and Memory, Emotion, and Motor Control.
Developmental: Our research goal is to understand how the organism and its capabilities develop throughout the lifespan. Our interdisciplinary approach is multi-species, multi-system, and multidisciplinary in nature. We study change over time in cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and neural processes. Our explanations include both neural accounts of the plasticity that is observed in the developing brain and other systems, and computational and psychological accounts of development. The bi-directionality of these processes is emphasized, with the organism's genetically program development being influenced by its physical and social environments and in turn influencing those environments. Thus, our research is situated at the interface between the fields of developmental psychology, computational modeling, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, cultural psychology, and clinical psychology. Our research examines numerous areas of development, plasticity, and change including sensory processes, cognitive capacities, language, reasoning, everyday knowledge of the world, emotions, and social relationships. We examine both typical and atypical development, each providing rich insights for better understanding the other and suggesting new approaches for effective treatments and preventive interventions.
Social-Personality Psychology: The social-personality program is devoted to training graduate students for careers in research and teaching. The program faculty and several affiliates conduct research and provide intensive training in six core areas of the field: (1) Self, identity, and culture; (2) Social cognition; (3) Emotion, emotion regulation, and affective neuroscience; (4) Personality processes and adult development; (5) Relationships and intergroup processes; and (6) Power, hierarchy, and social class. In addition to training in these core areas, the program encourages graduate students to develop their own research interests and build an independent research program. The area has a dual mentorship model where students are expected to work with two program faculty, one serving as the primary, the other as the secondary mentors. This approach to mentorship facilitates the mastery of multiple perspectives and methodologies in students’ chosen area of specialization. The program is characterized by considerable breadth and diversity. It provides students with special research opportunities, such as access to unique longitudinal databases, interdisciplinary training grants (e.g., affective science), multi-method approaches (self-report, observational, archival, life-data, physiological), and biological perspectives on social behavior (e.g., evolutionary, neuroimaging).
Admissions
Admission to the University
Minimum Requirements for Admission
The following minimum requirements apply to all graduate programs and will be verified by the Graduate Division:
- A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited institution;
- A grade point average of B or better (3.0);
- If the applicant comes from a country or political entity (e.g., Quebec) where English is not the official language, adequate proficiency in English to do graduate work, as evidenced by a TOEFL score of at least 90 on the iBT test, 570 on the paper-and-pencil test, or an IELTS Band score of at least 7 on a 9-point scale (note that individual programs may set higher levels for any of these); and
- Sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in the given field.
Applicants Who Already Hold a Graduate Degree
The Graduate Council views academic degrees not as vocational training certificates, but as evidence of broad training in research methods, independent study, and articulation of learning. Therefore, applicants who already have academic graduate degrees should be able to pursue new subject matter at an advanced level without the need to enroll in a related or similar graduate program.
Programs may consider students for an additional academic master’s or professional master’s degree only if the additional degree is in a distinctly different field.
Applicants admitted to a doctoral program that requires a master’s degree to be earned at Berkeley as a prerequisite (even though the applicant already has a master’s degree from another institution in the same or a closely allied field of study) will be permitted to undertake the second master’s degree, despite the overlap in field.
The Graduate Division will admit students for a second doctoral degree only if they meet the following guidelines:
- Applicants with doctoral degrees may be admitted for an additional doctoral degree only if that degree program is in a general area of knowledge distinctly different from the field in which they earned their original degree. For example, a physics PhD could be admitted to a doctoral degree program in music or history; however, a student with a doctoral degree in mathematics would not be permitted to add a PhD in statistics.
- Applicants who hold the PhD degree may be admitted to a professional doctorate or professional master’s degree program if there is no duplication of training involved.
Applicants may apply only to one single degree program or one concurrent degree program per admission cycle.
Required Documents for Applications
- Transcripts: Applicants may upload unofficial transcripts with your application for the departmental initial review. If the applicant is admitted, then official transcripts of all college-level work will be required. Official transcripts must be in sealed envelopes as issued by the school(s) attended. If you have attended Berkeley, upload your unofficial transcript with your application for the departmental initial review. If you are admitted, an official transcript with evidence of degree conferral will not be required.
- Letters of recommendation: Applicants may request online letters of recommendation through the online application system. Hard copies of recommendation letters must be sent directly to the program, not the Graduate Division.
- Evidence of English language proficiency: All applicants from countries or political entities in which the official language is not English are required to submit official evidence of English language proficiency. This applies to applicants from Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America, the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, most European countries, and Quebec (Canada). However, applicants who, at the time of application, have already completed at least one year of full-time academic course work with grades of B or better at a US university may submit an official transcript from the US university to fulfill this requirement. The following courses will not fulfill this requirement:
- courses in English as a Second Language,
- courses conducted in a language other than English,
- courses that will be completed after the application is submitted, and
- courses of a non-academic nature.
If applicants have previously been denied admission to Berkeley on the basis of their English language proficiency, they must submit new test scores that meet the current minimum from one of the standardized tests. Official TOEFL score reports must be sent directly from Educational Test Services (ETS). The institution code for Berkeley is 4833. Official IELTS score reports must be mailed directly to our office from the British Council. TOEFL and IELTS score reports are only valid for two years.
Where to Apply
Visit the Berkeley Graduate Division application page.
Admission to the Program
The Department of Psychology invites applications from students who are primarily interested in research. Applicants for the Psychology PhD are required to specify the area to which they wish to apply: Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience; Clinical Science; Cognition; Cognitive Neuroscience; Developmental; and Social-Personality. Applicants are required to name at least one faculty member with whom they wish to work.
Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from an institution of acceptable standing, and may hold a master in psychology or another field. Previous concentration in psychology is not required. The department does not have an application for a terminal master’s degree: PhD only.
Doctoral Degree Requirements
Normative Time Requirements
Normative Time in the Program
Normative time in the Department of Psychology for doctoral degree completion is 10 semesters, and normative time in candidacy is 4 semesters. (See departmental website for details.)
Step I: Students take courses, narrow down their interests to particular areas of specialization, and begin research projects. This takes approximately 1 year.
Step II: Students complete the majority of course requirements and prepare for their written and oral Qualifying Examination. This takes approximately 1-2 years.
Step III: Students undertake research for the PhD dissertation under a 3-4 person committee in charge of their research and dissertation. Students do original research and write up the dissertation based on their results. On completion of course requirements and approval of the dissertation by the committee, students are awarded the doctorate. This takes approximately 2 years.
Time to Advancement
Curriculum
Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Concentration
Code | Title | Units |
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Courses Required | ||
Department-wide Core Courses | ||
PSYCH 205 | Data Analysis | 3 |
PSYCH 206 | Structural Equation Modeling (or an advanced data analysis course from another department) | 3 |
PSYCH 292 | Introduction to the Profession of Psychology | 2 |
PSYCH 293 | Second-Year Seminar on Professional Development (Includes 2nd-Year Research Poster requirement) | 2 |
PSYCH 299 | Research (all semesters in residence) | 1-12 |
PSYCH 375 | Teaching Psychology | 2 |
Courses Required for Concentration | ||
PSYCH 210B | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Biological Bases of Behavior) | 3 |
Psych 210 Proseminar Series - Select two of the following: | ||
PSYCH 210A | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Cognitive Neuroscience) | 3 |
PSYCH 210C | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Sensation and Perception) | 3 |
PSYCH 210D | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Learning and Memory) | 3 |
PSYCH 210E | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Thought and Language) | 3 |
PSYCH 290 Series Topic Seminars (4 semesters) | 8 | |
PSYCH Colloquium - Select one each semester in residence from the following: | ||
PSYCH 229A | Cognition Colloquium | 1 |
or PSYCH 229B | Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium | |
PSYCH 249 | Developmental Colloquium | 1 |
Clinical Science Concentration
Code | Title | Units |
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Courses Required | ||
Department-wide Core Courses | ||
PSYCH 205 | Data Analysis | 3 |
PSYCH 206 | Structural Equation Modeling (or an advanced data analysis course from another department) | 3 |
PSYCH 292 | Introduction to the Profession of Psychology | 2 |
PSYCH 293 | Second-Year Seminar on Professional Development (Includes Second-Year Research Poster requirement) | 2 |
PSYCH 299 | Research (all semesters in residence) | 1-12 |
PSYCH 375 | Teaching Psychology | 2 |
Courses Required for Concentration | ||
PSYCH 230 | Proseminar: Clinical Psychology | 3 |
PSYCH 232 | History, Systems, and Diversity in Psychology (please contact the Clinical Science coordinator for details) | 1 |
PSYCH 237H | Intervention: Introduction to Clinical Methods | 3 |
PSYCH 233A | Clinical Assessment: Theory, Application, and Practicum | 3 |
or PSYCH 233B | Clinical Assessment: Theory, Application, and Practicum | |
PSYCH 235 | Clinical Research | 3 |
or PSYCH 250D | Principles and Pragmatics of Personality Measurement | |
PSYCH 239 | Clinical Seminar | 1 |
Discipline-Specific Knowledge | ||
Speciality Clinics to be taken concurrently: | ||
PSYCH 236 | Specialty Clinic | 3 |
PSYCH 237E | Professional Development in Clinical Science | 3 |
PSYCH 237G | Intervention: Specialty Clinics | 1,2 |
Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Concentrations
Code | Title | Units |
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Courses Required | ||
Department-wide Core Courses | ||
PSYCH 205 | Data Analysis | 3 |
PSYCH 206 | Structural Equation Modeling (or an advanced data analysis course from another department) | 3 |
PSYCH 292 | Introduction to the Profession of Psychology | 2 |
PSYCH 293 | Second-Year Seminar on Professional Development (Includes Second-Year Research Poster requirement) | 2 |
PSYCH 299 | Research (all semesters in residence) | 1-12 |
PSYCH 375 | Teaching Psychology | 2 |
Courses Required for Concentration | ||
Select three of the following 210x Proseminars: | ||
PSYCH 210A | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Cognitive Neuroscience) | 3 |
PSYCH 210B | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Biological Bases of Behavior) | 3 |
PSYCH 210C | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Sensation and Perception) | 3 |
PSYCH 210D | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Learning and Memory) | 3 |
PSYCH 210E | Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior (Thought and Language) | 3 |
PSYCH 229A | Cognition Colloquium | 1 |
or PSYCH 229B | Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium | |
PSYCH 290 Series Topic Seminars (4 semesters) | 8 |
Developmental Concentration
Code | Title | Units |
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Courses Required | ||
Department-wide Core Courses | ||
PSYCH 205 | Data Analysis | 3 |
PSYCH 206 | Structural Equation Modeling (or an advanced data analysis course from another department) | 3 |
PSYCH 292 | Introduction to the Profession of Psychology | 2 |
PSYCH 293 | Second-Year Seminar on Professional Development (Includes 2nd-Year Research Poster requirement) | 2 |
PSYCH 299 | Research (all semesters in residence) | 1-12 |
PSYCH 375 | Teaching Psychology | 2 |
Courses Required for Concentration | ||
PSYCH 240A | Proseminar: Biological, Cognitive, and Language Development | 3 |
PSYCH 240B | Proseminar: Emotional, Social, and Psychopathological Development | 3 |
PSYCH 249 | Developmental Colloquium | 1 |
PSYCH 290 Series Topic Seminars (3 semesters) | 6 |
Social-Personality Concentration
Code | Title | Units |
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Courses Required | ||
Department-wide Core Courses | ||
PSYCH 205 | Data Analysis | 3 |
PSYCH 206 | Structural Equation Modeling (or an advanced data analysis course from another department) | 3 |
PSYCH 292 | Introduction to the Profession of Psychology | 2 |
PSYCH 293 | Second-Year Seminar on Professional Development (Includes Second-Year Research Poster requirement) | 2 |
PSYCH 299 | Research (all semesters in residence) | 1-12 |
PSYCH 375 | Teaching Psychology | 2 |
Courses Required for Concentration | ||
PSYCH 250A | Perspectives in Personality: Overview | 3 |
PSYCH 250B | Perspectives in Personality: Trends and Issues | 3 |
PSYCH 250D | Principles and Pragmatics of Personality Measurement | 3 |
PSYCH 259 | Personality Seminar | 1 |
PSYCH 269 | Social Seminar | 1 |
PSYCH 290 Series Topic Seminars (3 semesters) | 6 |
Additional Program Requirements
- Second-Year Poster Presentation
- Third-Year Paper Requirement
- Qualifying Examination
- CITI Protocol Course Certifications
- Internship, Field Work, or Practicum–Clinical Science only
- Clinical Practice–Clinical Science only
Time in Candidacy
- Dissertation Proposal
- Dissertation
- Dissertation Presentation/Exit Talk
Professional Development
- Presentations
- Teaching
- Professional Conference Attendance
- Workshops
Faculty and Instructors
+ Indicates this faculty member is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award.
Faculty
Ozlem Ayduk, Professor. Violence, developmental psychology, psychology, depression, self-control, emotion regulation, social-cognition in interpersonal relationships.
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Sonia Bishop, Associate Professor. Neural mechanisms supporting attention, emotion and their interactions; individual differences in cognitive control and emotional responsivity; neural substrate of anxiety; genetic factors modulating recruitment of cortical control and limbic affective mechanisms.
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Silvia Bunge, Professor. Cognition, human brain function, development.
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Serena Chen, Professor. Close relationships, social cognition, social psychology, Self and identity, relational self, collective self, social power.
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Anne Collins, Assistant Professor. Human learning, decision-making and executive functions, Computational modeling at multiple levels (cognitive and neuroscience), Behavioral, EEG, drug and genes studies in healthy or patient populations Human learning, decision-making and executive functions, Computational modeling at multiple levels (cognitive and neuroscience), Behavioral, EEG, drug and genes studies in healthy or patient populations .
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Mark T. D'Esposito, Professor. Cognitive neuroscience, psychology, working memory, frontal lobe function, functional MRI, neurology, brain imaging, dopamine.
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Arianne Eason, Assistant Professor. Intergroup relations, prejudice, bias, social cognitive development, inequality, culture.
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Jan Engelmann, Assistant Professor. Developmental psychology, comparative psychology, cross-cultural psychology.
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Aaron Fisher, Associate Professor. Anxiety, depression, personalized medicine, psychotherapy, psychophysiology.
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David Foster, Associate Professor. Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience , keywords: behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampal replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigation.
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Jack L. Gallant, Professor. Vision science, form vision, attention, fMRI, computational neuroscience, natural scene perception, brain encoding, brain decoding.
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Alison Gopnik, Professor. Learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism.
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Allison Harvey, Professor. Sleep, insomnia, comorbidity, bipolar disorder, cognition and emotion.
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Stephen Hinshaw, Professor. Psychology, child clinical, developmental psychopathology, risk factors for attentional, conduct disorders, child psychopharmacology, multimodality interventions, diagnostic validity of disorders, peer relationships, stigma of mental illness.
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Rich Ivry, Professor. Cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control.
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Lucia F. Jacobs, Professor. Cognitive and brain evolution, adaptive patterns in spatial memory, spatial navigation, cognitive sex differences and decision making.
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Oliver P. John, Professor. Research methods, personality, measurement, emotion regulation, personality structure, personality development, traits, Big Five model, individual differences, emotion expression, self-concept, accuracy, bias, self-knowledge, personality assessment.
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Sheri Johnson, Professor. Bipolar disorder, social dominance.
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Dacher Keltner, Professor. Culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality.
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Celeste Kidd, Assistant Professor. Attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development.
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Robert Thomas Knight, Professor. Cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection.
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Lance Kriegsfeld, Professor. NeuroendocrinologyCircadian Biology, Neuroimmunology, cancer biology, animal behavior.
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Ann M. Kring, Professor. Schizophrenia, emotion, gender, mental illness, psychology, psychopathology, emotion in social interaction, emotion and cognition, facial expression.
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Robert W. Levenson, Professor. Aging, gender, culture, brain, psychology, emotion, psychophysiology, marriage, clinical science, interpersonal interactions, dementia, relationships, neurodegenerative disease.
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Nancy Liu, Assitant Clinical Professor. Implementation science, clinical training in empirically supported treatments for depression, trauma, and severe mental illness, underserved populations, mental health services in low-resource settings, primary care integration, global mental health .
Iris Mauss, Professor. Social psychology, personality psychology, affective science, psychophysiology, individual differences, emotion, emotion regulation, health psychology, happiness, well-being, psychological health.
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+ Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Professor. Diversity, intergroup relations, education, prejudice, stigma.
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Ken Nakayama, Adjunct Professor. Visual surfaces, the deployment of visual attention, and the role of attention in initiating eye movements, using visual psychophysical tests to assess neurological and psychiatric disorders .
Jason Okonofua, Assistant Professor. Mindsets, Large-scale psychological intervention, Relationships, Stereotyping, Prejudice, Stigma, Education, Interactional Justice, School-to-prison pipeline.
Steven Piantadosi, Assistant Professor.
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Mahesh Srinivasan, Associate Professor. Development, Language development, cognition.
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Frank J. Sulloway, Adjunct Professor.
Frederic Theunissen, Professor. Behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience.
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Matthew P. Walker, Professor. Plasticity, learning, memory, fMRI, emotion, sleep, EEG.
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Joni Wallis, Professor. Prefrontal cortex, neurophysiology, executive control, decision making.
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Kevin Weiner, Assistant Professor. Visual perception, face processing, structural-functional relationships assessed using a variety of (a) functional measurements (e g high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging, electrocorticography, etc ) and (b) anatomical measurements in-vivo (e g diffusion weighted imaging, cortical folding, etc ) and post-mortem (e g cytoarchitecture, myeloarchitecture, etc ), comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations.
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David Whitney, Professor. Cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action.
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Linda Wilbrecht, Associate Professor. Neuroscience, addiction, early life adversity, adolescence.
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Fei Xu, Professor. Conceptual development, developmental psychology, cognitive development, language development, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, statistical learning and statistical inference, psychology and philosophy, computational models of cognitive development.
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Qing Zhou, Professor. Culture, family, child development, developmental psychopathology, immigrants.
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Emeritus Faculty
Joseph J. Campos, Professor Emeritus. Social-emotional development in infancy, emotional communication, perception of emotion, relation of motor development to cognitive and social and emotional development.
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Carolyn Pape Cowan, Professor Emeritus. Child development, psychology, couple relationships, parenting styles, family transitions, preventive intervention.
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+ Philip Cowan, Professor Emeritus. Couple relationships, family factors in children's development, parenting, fatherhood, preventive intervention with families.
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Karen K. De Valois, Professor Emeritus. Psychophysics and electrophysiology of color vision, spatial vision and visual motion.
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+ Stephen E. Glickman, Professor Emeritus. Animal behavior, physiological substrates of behavior, hormonal substrates, spotted hyenas, sexual differentiation, vertebrate behavior.
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Ervin R. Hafter, Professor Emeritus.
Ravenna M. Helson, Professor Emeritus. Personality, psychology, adult development, psychology of women, creativity, enduring affective-cognitive styles, life choices, roles, retirement, changes in the self, the development of wisdom, gender issues.
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Erik David Hesse, Adjunct Associate Professor.
John F. Kihlstrom, Professor Emeritus. Personality, behavior, memory, psychology, cognition in personal, social contexts, unconscious mental processes, hypnosis, social cognition, experimental psychopathology, health cognition, unconscious mental life.
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Jonas Langer, Professor Emeritus.
Mary Main, Professor Emerita.
+ Christina Maslach, Professor Emeritus. Health psychology, individuation, burnout and job stress.
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Laura B. Mason, Clinical Professor Emerita. Psychotherapy research, treatment development, dissemination science, and community mental health .
+ Gerald A. Mendelsohn, Professor Emeritus.
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth, Professor Emeritus. Decision making, jury decision making, influence and persuasion, creativity in small groups, managing innovation in organizations, psychology of creative scientists and entrepreneurs, corporate cultures, diversity of team members, brainstorming, psychology and law.
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Stephen E. Palmer, Professor Emeritus. Psychology, visual perception, visual processing.
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Kaiping Peng, Professor Emeritus. Psychology, East Asian studies, social cultural sychology, reasoning and judgment across cultures and domains, inter-ethnic, racial relations, cross-cultural communication and understanding.
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William Prinzmetal, Adjunct Professor Emeritus. Behavior, cognition, brain, attention, psychology, visual perception.
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Donald A. Riley, Professor Emeritus. Behavior, learning, memory, cognition, brain, psychology.
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Lynn C. Robertson, Adjunct Professor Emeritus. Cognitive neuroscience, attention, psychology, representations of objects and space, visual search, binding mechanisms, perceptual organization in normal and neurological populations, functional hemisphere asymmetries, spatial deficits.
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Eleanor Rosch, Professor Emeritus. Cognition, psychology, concepts, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion, cross cultural, causality.
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Arthur P. Shimamura, Professor Emeritus. Cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, frontal lobe function, basic memory research.
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Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus. Sociolinguistics, behavior, cognition, brain, psycholinguistics, psychology, language and cognitive development, sign language, cross-cultural.
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John S. Watson, Professor Emeritus. Psychology, development in infancy, evolution of psychological processes in artificial life.
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+ Rhona Weinstein, Professor Emeritus. Community psychology, educational inequality and the achievement gap, teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies, classroom and school reform.
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Sheldon Zedeck, Professor Emeritus. Statistics, organization, psychology, research methodology, industrial, social psychology, personnel, cross-cultural work values, decision-making research, work and family issues, the work values of Chinese employees.
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Irving Zucker, Professor Emeritus. Biological rhythms, seasonality, behavioral endocrinology, melatonin, suprachiasmatic nucleus, reproductive physiology, behavior, ultradian rhythms, sex differences.
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Contact Information
Department of Psychology
2121 Berkeley Way
Phone: 510-642-5292
Fax: 510-642-5293
Student Services Director
Harumi Quinones
2210 Berkeley Way West
Phone: 510-642-7097
Graduate Student Affairs Officer
Julie Aranda
3101-10 Berkeley Way
Phone: 510-642-1382