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Psychology and Social Behavior Faculty

Elizabeth E. Cauffman
Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education
Ph.D. Temple University
Phone: 
(949) 824-4075
Email: 
cauffman@uci.edu
Office: 
4308 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
adolescent development, mental health, juvenile justice, legal and social policy
Susan Turk Charles
Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Southern California
Phone: 
(949) 824-1450
Email: 
scharles@uci.edu
Office: 
4326 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion
Chuansheng Chen
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Phone: 
(949) 824-4184
Email: 
cschen@uci.edu
Office: 
4332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
cross-cultural psychology, socialization of achievement, adolescent development
K. Alison Clarke-Stewart
Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Yale University
Phone: 
(949) 824-5574
Email: 
acstewar@uci.edu
Office: 
4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment
Thomas J. Crawford
Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 
(949) 824-5574
Email: 
tjcrawfo@uci.edu
Office: 
4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
attitude theory and social problems research
Sally S. Dickerson
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 
(949) 824-4556
Email: 
sdickers@uci.edu
Office: 
4558 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
health psychology, stress physiology, effects of social and emotional processes on physiology and health
Peter H. Ditto
Department Chair and Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Princeton University
Phone: 
(949) 824-8168,1844
Email: 
phditto@uci.edu
Office: 
4209 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology
C. David Dooley
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 
(949) 824-5293
Email: 
cddooley@uci.edu
Office: 
4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
community psychology, epidemiology, economic change
Joanne Frattaroli
Lecturer with Potential Security Of Employment in Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Phone: 
(949) 824-2784
Email: 
jfrattar@uci.edu
Office: 
4306 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology
Wendy A. Goldberg
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Phone: 
(949) 824-5219
Email: 
wagoldbe@uci.edu
Office: 
4564 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychology, children and their families, transition to parenthood, social policy
Ellen Greenberger
Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 
(949) 824-6328
Email: 
egreenbe@uci.edu
Office: 
4546 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychology, social and cultural influences on adolescent and young adult development, family relationships and consequences throughout the lifespan
Jutta Heckhausen
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
Phone: 
(949) 824-5574
Email: 
heckhaus@uci.edu
Office: 
4316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
life-span developmental psychology, primary and secondary control, cultural universals and differences
Larry Jamner
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Phone: 
(949) 824-8373, 7429
Email: 
ljamner@uci.edu
Office: 
4324 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
health psychology, psychophysiology, algology
Eric D. Knowles
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 
(949) 824-1730
Email: 
eknowles@uci.edu
Office: 
4314 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
culture, identity, social perception, and ideology
Linda J. Levine
Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Phone: 
(949) 824-7692
Email: 
llevine@uci.edu
Office: 
4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
cognitive processes that evoke emotions; the effects of emotions on memory; bias in memory for past emotional reactions; the development of children's abilty to regulate emotion
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, and Professor of Law, and Cognitive Science
Ph.D. Stanford University
Phone: 
(949) 824-3285
Email: 
eloftus@uci.edu
Office: 
2393 Social Ecology II
Specializations: 
cognitive psychology, human memory, psychology and law
Angela Lukowski
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Phone: 
949-824-7191
Office: 
4304 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of early nutrition on development
Salvatore R. Maddi
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Harvard University
Phone: 
(949) 824-7045
Email: 
srmaddi@uci.edu
Office: 
4302 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity
Raymond W. Novaco
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Indiana University
Phone: 
(949) 824-7206
Email: 
rwnovaco@uci.edu
Office: 
4343 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
anger, violence, stress, trauma, and interventions
Candice L. Odgers
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Phone: 
(949) 824-8911
Email: 
codgers@uci.edu
Office: 
4312 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychopathology; longitudinal analysis of growth and change; effects of externalizing disorders on health
JoAnn Prause
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment in Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Phone: 
(949) 824-6435
Email: 
japrause@uci.edu
Office: 
4334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
statistics, quantitative epidemiology, employment typology
Jodi Quas
Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Phone: 
(949) 824-7693
Email: 
jquas@uci.edu
Office: 
4328 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
memory development, children's involvement in the legal system
Karen S. Rook
Associate Dean of Research, School of Social Ecology and Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 
(949) 824-4196, 5574
Email: 
ksrook@uci.edu
Office: 
4566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
gerontology, social support systems, subjective well-being and health
Roxane Cohen Silver
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Medicine
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Phone: 
(949) 824-2192
Email: 
rsilver@uci.edu
Office: 
MPAA 405
Specializations: 
coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas), stress, social psychology, health psychology
Jennifer L. Skeem
Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Utah
Phone: 
(949) 824-3782
Email: 
skeem@uci.edu
Office: 
4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
psychopathology and violence, mandated psychiatric treatment, psychology and law
Daniel Stokols
Chancellor's Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, Planning, Policy & Design, Public Health and Epidemiology
Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Phone: 
(949) 824-5294
Email: 
dstokols@uci.edu
Office: 
206C SEI
Specializations: 
health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, science of team science
Elaine Vaughan
Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. Stanford University
Phone: 
(949) 824-7184
Email: 
evaughan@uci.edu
Office: 
4544 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
environmental assessment, risk perceptions, research methodology, social psychology
Carol K. Whalen
Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: 
(949) 824-6488
Email: 
ckwhalen@uci.edu
Office: 
4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
developmental psychopathology, childhood behavior disorders, child therapies, health psychology
Ilona S. Yim
Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior
Ph.D. University of Trier, Germany
Phone: 
(949) 824-0130
Office: 
4562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway
Specializations: 
psychobiology of stress, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics