Psychology | Faculty
Faculty
Professor Violent and non-violent antisocial behavior; evidence-based interventions for conduct problems and delinquency; juvenile justice practices and policies; socialization and social development; influence of violence in communities, the media, families, and peer groups on individual behavior and mental health. |
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Professor Behavioral and neural correlates of reward-related processing, with an emphasis on how the affective properties of outcomes or feedback influence choice behavior. using neuroimaging and behavioral and psychophysiological methods. |
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Associate Professor Functional brain imaging of language and reading. Tracking in both space (using magnetic resonance imaging) and time (using magnetoencephalography) how the brain computes sound and meaning from what we see. |
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Professor & RUBIC Director Computational neuroimaging, memory and learning, connectionist models, categorization, big data modeling. |
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Professor Interracial feedback biases; the effects of resources (e.g., social support, self worth) on perception and judgment; how self-esteem promotes attention to emotions; the effects of emotional disclosure on social judgment; and how emotional disclosure leads to news broadcasting. |
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Samantha Heintzelman |
Assistant Professor Psychological well-being; the experience of meaning in life; positive emotions; personality and individual differences. |
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Distinguished Professor Brain activity related to genital stimulation, sexual response, orgasm, and analgesia in women and men, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). |
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Professor & Chair Cognitive, emotional, and perceptual development in infants and young children; threat perception; fear learning. |
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Jacqueline S. Mattis |
Dean of Faculty Role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African American and Afri-Caribbean youth and adults, factors associated with positive psychological and psychosocial development of urban-residing African Americans and AfriCaribbeans. |
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Kimele Persaud * |
Assistant Professor Visual working and long-term memory; the interaction between real-world semantic knowledge and episodic memory; group differences across development, culture, and expertise; computational models of memory and learning |
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Professor Implicit social cognition; effect of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination on stigmatized individuals' self-concept and identity, and mental and physical health. |
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Assistant Professor Functional neuroimaging of mathematical cognition; cognitive development; learning disabilities; cognition in autism spectrum disorders; learning and reasoning. |
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Karen Smith * |
Assistant Professor Stress and individual differences, emotional development, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, value-based decision making. |
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Professor & Graduate Director Functional neuroimaging of learning and decision making; the influences of affective information on cognitive processing, neural basis of goal-directed behavior. |
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Gretchen Van de Walle |
Associate Professor & Vice Chair Conceptual development in infants and young children; epistemic cognition; reasoning about science. |
Note: an " * " next to a faculty member's name denotes they are accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2024-25 academic year
Research and Teaching Faculty
Michael Shiflett | Research Assistant Professor and Neuroscience Major Coordinator | shiflett@rutgers.edu |
Jamil Bhanji | Research Assistant Professor & Assistant Graduate Director | jamil.bhanji@rutgers.edu |
Gerard La Morte |
Assistant Teaching Professor | glamorte@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Jamie Gorman | Teaching Instructor | gormanj@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Ellen Halpern |
Teaching Instructor | halperne@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Ramona Ross | Teaching Instructor & Undergraduate Director | ramross@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Christina Zambrano |
Assistant Teaching Professor | cz147@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Emeritus Faculty
Colin Beer |
Professor Emeritus Communication behavior, social development, and breeding biology of gulls. |
Alan Gilchrist |
Professor Emeritus Visual cognition; surface-color perception. |
Ken Kressel |
Professor Emeritus Social and interpersonal conflict; behavior and unconscious cognitive schema of professionals who mediate conflict; expertise in mediation and related fields (e.g marital therapy; organizational ombudsman). |
Professor Emeritus Attachment theory; adult attachment; attitudes toward mother and other adult relationships. |
Lecturers
Frank Gengaro |
frankg@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Matthew Giobbi |
matthew.giobbi@rutgers.edu |
Nan Jacobson-Wise |
nanwise@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Margaret Maghan | mmaghan@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Allyson Scavuzzo |
melonia@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Warren Reich |
reichw@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Brian Sexton |
brian.sexton@rutgers.edu |
Roxanne Vega | rvega@psychology.rutgers.edu |
Associated Graduate Faculty from Other Departments
Ken Aizawa |
ken.aizawa@rutgers.edu |
jbaustin@newark.rutgers.edu |
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benasich@newark.rutgers.edu | |
Elizabeth Bonawitz | elizabeth_bonawitz@gse.harvard.edu |
Michael Cole | michael.cole@rutgers.edu |
gabri@newark.rutgers.edu |
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gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu |
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jmorrell@newark.rutgers.edu |