Faculty

George A. Alvarez

Associate Professor

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

Alvarez/Vision Science Lab

William James Hall 760, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

alvarez@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-5525

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.

Joshua W. Buckholtz

Assistant 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.

Randy L. Buckner

Professor

Randy Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. 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

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

Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeh 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.

Mina Cikara

Assistant Professor

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

Fiery Cushman

Assistant Professor

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

Samuel J. Gershman

Assistant Professor

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

Daniel Gilbert

Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology

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

Joshua D. Greene

Professor

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

Jill M. Hooley

Professor

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

Hooley Lab

William James Hall 1270, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

jmh@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-9508

Talia Konkle

Assistant Professor

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

Max Krasnow

Assistant Professor

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

Ellen Langer

Professor

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

Jennifer Susan Lerner

Affiliate of the Department of Psychology
Professor of Public Policy and Management (Harvard Kennedy School)

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

Patrick Mair

Senior Lecturer in Statistics

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

Richard J. McNally

Professor

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

Jason P. Mitchell

Professor

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

Mitchell Lab

William James Hall 1530, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

jason_mitchell@harvard.edu

p: 617-384-5875

Matthew K. Nock

Professor

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

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology

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

Daniel L. Schacter

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

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

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

Jesse Snedeker

Professor

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

Snedeker/Developmental Lab

William James Hall 1070, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

snedeker@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3873

Leah H. Somerville

Associate Professor

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

Elizabeth S. Spelke

Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology

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

Spelke/Developmental Lab

William James Hall 1130, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

spelke@wjh.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-3876

John R. Weisz

Professor

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

Yaoda Xu

Associate Professor

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

Department of Psychology

Faculty

George A. Alvarez

Mahzarin R. Banaji

Joshua W. Buckholtz

Randy L. Buckner

Alfonso Caramazza

Susan E. Carey

Mina Cikara

Fiery Cushman

Samuel J. Gershman

Daniel Gilbert

Joshua D. Greene

Jill M. Hooley

Talia Konkle

Max Krasnow

Ellen Langer

Jennifer Susan Lerner

Patrick Mair

Richard J. McNally

Jason P. Mitchell

Matthew K. Nock

Steven Pinker

Daniel L. Schacter

Jim Sidanius

Jesse Snedeker

Leah H. Somerville

Elizabeth S. Spelke

John R. Weisz

Yaoda Xu

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