The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment.... Read more about George A. Alvarez

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

... Read more about Mahzarin R. Banaji

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.

... Read more about Joshua W. Buckholtz

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

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

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. 

... Read more about Susan E. Carey

Research interests: Intergroup bias, emotion, cognitive and affective neuroscience

... Read more about Mina Cikara

Research interests: Morality, social neuroscience, reinforcement learning, decision making, theory of mind, experimental philosophy

... Read more about Fiery Cushman

Research interests:  Learning, memory, decision making, computational neuroscience

... Read more about Samuel J. Gershman

Research interests: Social inference, decision-making, affective forecasting

... Read more about Daniel Gilbert

Research interests: Moral judgment and decision-making; cooperation and conflict-resolution; the neural bases of high-level cognition (multimodal compositional semantics)

... Read more about Joshua D. Greene

Professor Hooley received her B.Sc. in Psychology from the University of Liverpool. This was followed by research work at Cambridge University.... Read more about Jill M. Hooley

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience, high-level vision, object representation, neural organization 

... Read more about Talia Konkle

Research interests: Evolutionary psychology, evolution of sociality, psychology of cooperation and punishment, ecological rationality, psychology of foraging  

... Read more about Max Krasnow

Research Interests:  Mindfulness/ mindlessness; health and well being; social cognition/ decision-making.

... Read more about Ellen Langer

Research Interests: judgment and decision making, emotion, applications of psychology to public policy.

... Read more about Jennifer Susan Lerner

Research Interests:  Computational and Applied Statistics with special emphasis on psychometric methods.

... Read more about Patrick Mair

Prof. McLaughlin will be joining Harvard University's Psychology faculty on September 1, 2018.

Research interests: Developmental psychopathology; childhood adversity; stress; trauma; affective neuroscience

... Read more about Katie A. McLaughlin

Research interests: Network analyses of psychopathology, cognitive biases in social anxiety disorder, cognitive biases in obsessive-compulsive disorder

... Read more about Richard J. McNally

Jason Mitchell received his BA/MS from Yale University (1997) and his PhD from Harvard University (2003).... Read more about Jason P. Mitchell

Research interests: Suicide, self-injury, self-destructive behaviors

... Read more about Matthew K. Nock

Research Interests: Language; communication and common knowledge; history and psychology of violence

... Read more about Steven Pinker

Research interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory, imagination, future thinking, creativity, and aging

... Read more about Daniel L. Schacter

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

My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically-developing children (from infancy into middle childhood),... Read more about Jesse Snedeker

Research interests: Adolescent brain development, emotion, motivation, self-regulation, decision making

... Read more about Leah H. Somerville

Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, including the capacity for formal mathematics,... Read more about Elizabeth S. Spelke

Prof. Ullman will be joining Harvard University's Psychology faculty on July 1, 2019

Research interests: computational cognitive models; child development; judgement and decision making; hierarchical reasoning

Research interests: Mental health intervention effects with children and adolescents, psychotherapy meta-analysis

... Read more about John R. Weisz

Research interests: Mid- and high-level visual object representation, attention, visual short-term memory, task performance, and human occipital/temporal/parietal cortex.

... Read more about Yaoda Xu