Joshua Conrad Jackson’s research focuses on the intersection of cultural evolution and psychology. He studies how people’s psychologies change as societies become larger, more diverse, more economically developed, and more connected to each other. He has...
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...
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...
The work in the Bergelson lab seeks to uncover how infants learn language from the world around them, i.e. how language develops, and in particular, how infants and toddlers learn words. We approach this by studying learners and their environments. Under...
Professor Hatzenbuehler’s research focuses broadly on identifying the biopsychosocial mechanisms that contribute to adverse mental health outcomes among minority group members, with a particular focus on the role of stigma in shaping the development and...
Humans are born into complex social networks. My work investigates how infants, toddlers, and children learn about and navigate this network (i.e., their naive sociology). I've studied how young humans think and feel about social hierarchy (i.e...
The primary inspiration behind Professor Phelps’ research is the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our emotional experience can alter our thoughts and actions. By uncovering the impact of emotion and affect...
Tomer Ullman is a cognitive scientist interested in common-sense reasoning, and building computational models for explaining high-level cognitive processes and the acquisition of new knowledge by children and adults. In particular, he is focused on how...
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...
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...
