Psychology | Faculty

Violent and non-violent antisocial behavior; evidence-based interventions for conduct problems and delinquency; juvenile justice practices and policies; socialization  and social development; influence of violence in communities, the media, families, and peer groups on individual behavior and mental health.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Behavioral and neural correlates of reward-related processing, with an emphasis on how the affective properties of outcomes or feedback influence choice behavior. using neuroimaging and behavioral and psychophysiological methods.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Functional brain imaging of language and reading. Tracking in both space (using magnetic resonance imaging) and time (using magnetoencephalography) how the brain computes sound and meaning from what we see.

Computational neuroimaging, memory and learning, connectionist models, categorization, big data modeling.

Interracial feedback biases; the effects of resources (e.g., social support, self worth) on perception and judgment; how self-esteem promotes attention to emotions; the effects of emotional disclosure on social judgment; and how emotional disclosure leads to news broadcasting.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Psychological well-being; the experience of meaning in life; positive emotions; personality and individual differences.

Brain activity related to genital stimulation, sexual response, orgasm, and analgesia in women and men, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Cognitive, emotional, and perceptual development in infants and young children; threat perception; fear learning.

Role of religion and spirituality in the lives of African American and Afri-Caribbean youth and adults,  factors associated with positive psychological and psychosocial development of urban-residing African Americans and AfriCaribbeans.

Visual working and long-term memory; the interaction between real-world semantic knowledge and episodic memory; group differences across development, culture, and expertise; computational models of memory and learning.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Implicit social cognition; effect of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination on stigmatized individuals' self-concept and identity, and mental and physical health.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Functional neuroimaging of mathematical cognition; cognitive development; learning disabilities; cognition in autism spectrum disorders; learning and reasoning.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Emotion and emotion regulation, especially how emotions are regulated through social interactions. uses a multi-modal approach (e.g., behavioral experiments, acoustic analysis, naturalistic text) to understand the cognitive and affective mechanisms of such "social emotion regulation"

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Stress and individual differences, emotional development, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, value-based decision making.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Functional neuroimaging of learning and decision making; the influences of affective information on cognitive processing, neural basis of goal-directed behavior.

Uses language models (LLMs) as “model organisms” for human cognition and also as objects of study in their own right. Research topics include: representation and comprehension of lexical ambiguity; mechanisms underpinning the development of Theory of Mind; and the role of sensorimotor grounding in language and cognition.

Accepting applications for Ph.D students for the 2026-2027 academic year.

Conceptual development in infants and young children; epistemic cognition; reasoning about science.