Department Chair Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology
Professor Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide...
Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience DIB Committee Co-Chair
The primary inspiration behind Professor Phelps’ research is the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our...
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Katie McLaughlin is a clinical psychologist with interests in how environmental experience influences brain and behavioral development in children and...
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in memory of William James and of African and African American Studies
Jim Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at the...
Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily...
The Greene lab studies the mechanics of moral thinking, and high-level cognition more generally, using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging...
A major focus of Professor Hooley’s research interests concerns psychosocial (especially family) predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe...
Leah Somerville is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. She received a PhD in Psychological...
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences
Cushman's research aims to organize the astonishing complexity of moral judgment around basic functional principles. Much of it is motivated by a simple...
Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his...
