People

Randy L. Buckner

randy_buckner@harvard.edu

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 Science at Harvard University, and the Director of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Division and...

Mary Buntrock

Faculty Support Specialist

My background has been working with small businesses, helping to foster a good work environment and relationship with the community. I'm pleased to be a part of the psychology department and to be able to assist faculty with their impactful work. I hold a...

Rachel Calcott

rcalcott@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student

Mary Whiton Calkins

(1863-1930)

Paired - Associate Learning Paradigm in Memory Research

First Woman President of the American Psychological Association

Mary Whiton Calkins was ready for an academic career before the patriarchal academic world of the late nineteenth century was ready for her. After earning an undergraduate degree in 1882 from Smith College in classics and philosophy, Calkins began to...

Alfonso Caramazza

caram@wjh.harvard.edu

Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology, Emeritus

A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being pursued. These issues are addressed through research with brain-damaged and normal subjects. The...

Susan E. Carey

scarey@wjh.harvard.edu

Professor (Emeritus)

The human conceptual repertoire poses a formidable challenge to the cognitive sciences. Humans are the only species who can ponder orders of infinity, the causes and cure of global warming, or any of literally billions of propositions formulated over the...

Franchesca (Franckie) Castro-Ramirez

framirez@g.harvard.edu

PhD Student

Raymond Cattell

(1905-1998)

Theory of Personality - 16 Base Traits

Culture - Fair Intelligence Tests

Raymond Cattell was an influential psychologist who developed new analytic techniques that allowed for more nuanced empirical measurements of the components of personality and intelligence. Cattell did his doctoral work at University College London, under...

Patrick Cavanagh

patrick@wjh.harvard.edu

Professor (Emeritus)

Co-founded the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard

Research in Visual Neuroscience and Perception

Patrick Cavanagh received a degree in Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989...

Lucius Caviola

lucius.caviola@gmail.com

Associate

Joshua Greene's Lab

Mark Chen

markchen@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Psychology (Starting July 1, 2026)

Dr. Chen’s research focuses broadly on stress and psychopathology across the lifespan, with a central interest in the transdiagnostic roles of emotion and emotion regulation processes: (1) how they are shaped by adverse life experiences, (2) how their...

Evelyn Cho

evelyncho@fas.harvard.edu

Associate

John Weisz's Lab

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