Ellen Langer earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in Social and Clinical Psychology and joined the faculty at Harvard in 1977. The Langer lab focuses...
Patrick Mair obtained his PhD in Statistics from the University of Vienna in 2005 and did his Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Statistics in 2010. From...
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...
Professor McNally’s main research emphasis has concerned the psychopathology of anxiety and related disorders (e.g., panic disorder, specific phobia,...
I use a combination of neuroimaging and behavioral measures to investigate the cognitive processes that support inferences about the psychological states...
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...
Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his...
Schacter’s research is broadly concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory, using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging...
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...
My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically developing children (from...
Leah Somerville is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. She received a PhD in Psychological...
Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible...
John Weisz’ research involves development and testing of interventions for youth mental health problems, as well as meta-analyses and systematic reviews...