The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment. Yet, for the most part, people successfully...
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Harvard College Professor, 2014-2019 Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe, 2002-2008
Professor Banaji studies thinking and feeling as they unfold in social context, with a focus on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode...
Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience
Randy Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Center for Brain...
A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being...
Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology
The human conceptual repertoire poses a formidable challenge to the cognitive sciences. Humans are the only species who can ponder orders of infinity, the...
Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily...
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Cushman's research aims to organize the astonishing complexity of moral judgment around basic functional principles. Much of it is motivated by a simple...
The Gershman lab's research aims to understand how richly structured knowledge about the environment is acquired, and how this knowledge aids adaptive...
The Greene lab studies the mechanics of moral thinking, and high-level cognition more generally, using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging...
A major focus of Professor Hooley’s research interests concerns psychosocial (especially family) predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe...
Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world...
Ellen Langer earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in Social and Clinical Psychology and joined the faculty at Harvard in 1977. The Langer lab focuses...
Patrick Mair obtained his PhD in Statistics from the University of Vienna in 2005 and did his Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Statistics in 2010. From...
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist with interests in how environmental experience influences brain and behavioral development in children and...
Professor McNally’s main research emphasis has concerned the psychopathology of anxiety and related disorders (e.g., panic disorder, specific phobia,...
I use a combination of neuroimaging and behavioral measures to investigate the cognitive processes that support inferences about the psychological states...
Department Chair Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology
Professor Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide...
Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience DIB Committee Co-Chair
The primary inspiration behind Professor Phelps’ research is the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our...
Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his...
Schacter’s research is broadly concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory, using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging...
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies
Jim Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at the...
My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically developing children (from...
Leah Somerville is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. She received a PhD in Psychological...
Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible...
John Weisz’ research involves development and testing of interventions for youth mental health problems, as well as meta-analyses and systematic reviews...
