Psychological Science Faculty

Jessica Borelli

Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., Yale University
(949) 824-3002
4552 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychopathology, attachment, emotion, prevention of mental health problems in children and adolescents
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Elizabeth Cauffman

Professor of Psychological Science, Education and Law
Ph.D. Temple University
4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Susan Turk Charles

Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science
Ph.D. University of Southern California
4570 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Chuansheng Chen

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science and Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, cognitive neuroscience, genes and behavior
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Amy L. Dent

Associate Professor of Teaching of Psychological Science
Ph.D. Duke University
4542 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
meta-analysis, academic context and consequences of self-regulation, educational and developmental psychology of academic learning

Pia Dietze

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. New York University
(949) 824-2627
SBSG 4101
Specializations: 
social psychology, social class, economic inequality, social cognition, and intergroup relations
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**Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Peter H. Ditto

Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. Princeton University
(949) 824-1844
4536 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
social psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning

Şule Güney

Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of New South Wales, Australia
TBD
SBSG 4538
Specializations: 
Judgment and decision making under risk and ambiguity, strategic decision making, cognitive psychology

Jutta Heckhausen

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
4316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

J. Zoe Klemfuss

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. Cornell University
4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
narrative development; children’s autobiographical memory; sociocontextual influences on children’s narrative, memory, and well-being; children’s eyewitness abilities
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Kate Kuhlman

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychopathology, psychoneuroimmunology, psychoneuroendocrinology, early life stress, and adolescent depression.
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Elizabeth F. Loftus

Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society; Psychological Science; School of Law
Ph.D. Stanford University
(949) 824-3285
2393 Social Ecology 2
Specializations: 
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Angela Lukowski

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007
949-923-0331
4332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
cognitive development; language; sleep; Down syndrome; infancy and early childhood
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Elizabeth A. Martin

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of Missouri
4318 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
clinical psychology; psychosis and psychosis risk; schizophrenia, schizotypy, and social anhedonia; emotion and social processes; assessment and classification of psychopathology
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Kristine Molina

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
4345 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
racism & discrimination, social inequality, health (in)equity, Latinx health, critical & feminist psychology

Raymond W. Novaco

Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. Indiana University
(949) 824-7206
4343 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions

Candice L. Odgers

Professor of Psychological Science, Director for Research and Faculty Development
Ph.D. University of Virginia
4326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental and quantitative psychology; social inequalities and child health; new technologies and adolescent development

Paul K. Piff

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
4324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
social psychology, group processes, altruism and cooperation, socioeconomic status, inequality, social emotion, moral judgment, ethics, uncertainty
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Sarah Pressman

Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Jodi Quas

Professor of Psychological Science and Nursing Science
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
(949) 824-7693
4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
memory development, children's involvement in the legal system
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Jenny Rinehart

Associate Professor of Teaching
Ph.D. University of New Mexico
4314 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
health psychology, clinical psychology, sexual victimization prevention, risk perception.

Jason Schiffman

Director of Clinical Training, Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of Southern California
(949) 824-5574
SBSG 3101
Specializations: 
identification and prevention of early psychosis, addressing issues of health disparities across racial/ethnic groups among individuals at clinical high-risk
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Stephen Schueller

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
clinical psychology, depression, mHealth, technology, implementation science, treatment and prevention, positive psychology
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Nicholas Scurich

Department Chair, Professor of Psychological Science, and Criminology, Law and Society
Ph.D. University of Southern California
(949) 824-4046
4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
psychology & law; judgment and decision making; violence risk assessment

Roxane Cohen Silver

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Medicine, and Public Health; Vice Provost, Academic Planning and Institutional Research
Ph.D. Northwestern University
535 Aldrich Hall and 4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas), stress, social psychology, health psychology
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Oliver Sng

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Arizona State University
4304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
social psychology, evolutionary psychology, cultural psychology, stereotyping, behavioral ecology

Julian F. Thayer

Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., New York University
4334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
Health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress, neuroimaging

DeWayne Williams

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
(949) 824-4366
4544 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
Social health psychology; Health disparities; Discrimination; Stigma; Prejudice; Stereotyping; Psychophysiology; Stress and health; Self-regulation

Ilona S. Yim

Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D. University of Trier, Germany
4562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
stress and health; biopsychology; early life trauma; intimate partner violence; pregnancy and postpartum depression
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** Reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admission cycle

Alyson Zalta

Associate Professor of Psychological Science
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
(949) 490-2247
4556 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
clinical psychology, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience, treatment & prevention

Joanne F. Zinger

Associate Professor of Teaching
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
(951) 662-3735 (cell)
4306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
social/personality psychology, language use, educational psychology, meta-analysis, and pedagogy