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Mahzarin R. Banaji

Mahzarin R. Banaji

Department Chair; Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
Harvard College Professor, 2014-2019
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe, 2002-2008

Research Interests: Implicit social cognition; social development; attitudes & preferences; beliefs & stereotypes; intergroup relations; judgment & decision making; person perception; research methods.

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Banaji Lab/Personal Website
William James Hall 1520, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
mahzarin_banaji@harvard.edu
p: 617-384-9203
Josh Buckholtz

Joshua W. Buckholtz

Associate Professor

 

Research Interests:  Identifying brain circuit mechanisms for inter-individual variability in self-control; characterizing circuit-level pathomechanisms underlying self-control failure in impulse control disorders (e.g. psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder, drug addiction); uncovering the cognitive and neural foundations for social norm-based cooperative behavior.

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Joshua W. Buckholtz's Website
Northwest Laboratory 295.01, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
harvard.snplab@gmail.com
p: 617-496-8588
Randy L. Buckner

Randy L. Buckner

Professor

 

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 Science at Harvard University, and the Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division and faculty of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School.... Read more about Randy L. Buckner

Buckner Lab
Northwest Laboratory 280.06, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
randy.buckner@harvard.edu
p: 617-384-8230
Alfonso Caramazza

Alfonso Caramazza

Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology

Research in my laboratory has principally focused on problems of lexical processing -- to understand the organization and processing structure of the lexical system and the nature of lexical representations.... Read more about Alfonso Caramazza

Caramazza Lab
William James Hall 930, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
caram@wjh.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-3867
Susan E. Carey

Susan E. Carey

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology

Susan Carey received her BA from Radcliffe College and her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University, studying with George Miller, Jerome Bruner and Roger Brown.  She taught at MIT (Psychology Department, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) from 1973-1996, at NYU (Psychology Department) from 1996 - 2001, and has been at Harvard (Psychology Department) since 2001, where she cofounded the Laboratory for Developmental Studies with Elizabeth Spelke.  She was awarded the 1998 Nicod Prize, was named the William James Fellow of APS in 2002, was awarded the David Rumerhart Prize in 2009, and APA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award in in 2009, and an APA Mentor Award in 2013.  She is a member of the Society for Experimental Psychology, the American Association of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. 

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Susan E. Carey's Website
Carey/Developmental Lab
William James Hall 1170, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
scarey@wjh.harvard.edu
p: 617-384-7918
Jim Sidanius

Jim Sidanius

John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies

Research interests: Interface between political ideology and cognitive functioning; the political psychology of gender, group conflict, institutional discrimination, the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice, and the psychology of terrorism... Read more about Jim Sidanius

Jim Sidanius' Website
Sidanius Lab
William James Hall 1430, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
sidanius@wjh.harvard.edu
p: 617-495-3804