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Leah H. Somerville
Department Chair
Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology
Research in the Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (PI: Leah Somerville) integrates psychological and neuroscientific approaches to inform how brain development through adolescence shapes psychological changes in cognitive, motivational, social...
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Lul Abdullahi
Faculty Support Specialist
I am an administrative professional with a background in academic support, health care, and customer service. I started my journey here as an intern through the Year Up program in the Psychology department. My experience working with faculty and staff has...
Lul Abdullahi

Gordon W. Allport
(1897-1967)
Personality Trait Theory
Research on Predjudice and Discrimination
Gordon Willard Allport spent nearly his entire academic career at Harvard, completing both his bachelor’s degree and his PhD at the university, and serving as a faculty member from 1930 – 1967. Allport pioneered research on human personality. At a time...
Gordon Allport, American psychologist (Image Credit: Dr. C. George Boeree, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons)

George A. Alvarez
Fred Kavli Professor of Neuroscience
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 navigate through busy intersections, find items of interest such as food or friends in a crowd, and...
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Ashwini Ashokkumar
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Ashwini studies how our identities shape (and are shaped by) how we think about, talk about, and do politics. Her research examines how identity processes impact political discourse and discussion, and how discourse, in turn, shapes social cohesion...
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Mahzarin R. Banaji
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. She studies social attitudes and beliefs in adults and children, especially those that have roots...
Mahzarin Banaji