Psychology and Social Behavior Faculty


Elizabeth Cauffman 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 Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science 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: 4566 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: cross-cultural psychology, adolescent development, cognitive neuroscience, genes and behavior
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 Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science 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 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 psychology, judgment and decision making, political and moral reasoning
C. David Dooley Professor Emeritus 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: wendy.goldberg@uci.edu Office: 4564 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: developmental psychology, work and family, infant sleep, transition to parenthood, autism
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) 824-9219 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: psychology of inequality, White identity, and religious prejudice
Linda J. Levine Department Chair and Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior Ph.D. The University of Chicago Phone: (949) 824-7692 Email: llevine@uci.edu Office: 4568 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: cognitive and motivational processes that evoke emotions; how specific emotions influence the features of events people attend to, find important, and later remember; sources of bias in memory for past emotions; and the development of children’s ability to regulate emotions.
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 Email: angela.lukowski@uci.edu Office: 4332 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: Memory development in infancy and early childhood, individual differences in long-term memory in infancy, the impact of sleep on cognitive functioning from infancy to adulthood
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 Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, Education and Nursing Science 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 and Nursing Science 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
Sarah Pressman Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Email: sarah.pressman@uci.edu Office: 4318 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: Health Psychology; Positive Emotions; Stress Physiology; Psychosocial effects on physiology and health
Jodi Quas Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior and Nursing Science 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 Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Phone: (949) 824-7069 Email: ksrook@uci.edu Office: 4341 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: gerontology, social relationships and health
Nicholas Scurich Assistant Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law & Society Ph.D. University of Southern California Phone: (949) 824-4046 Email: nscurich@uci.edu Office: SBSG 4312 Specializations: judgment and decision making; juridical proof; violence risk assessment
Roxane Cohen Silver Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, Medicine, and Public Health Ph.D. Northwestern University Phone: (949) 824-2192 Email: rsilver@uci.edu Office: 4336 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: coping with traumatic life events (personal losses and collective traumas), stress, social psychology, health psychology
Jennifer L. Skeem Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior Ph.D. University of Utah Phone: (949) 824-3782 Email: skeem@uci.edu Office: 4322 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: mental illness, criminal behavior, policy/intervention
Daniel Stokols Research Professor and Chancellor's Professor Emeritus Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Phone: (949) 824-5294 PPD / (949) 824-7983 PSB Email: dstokols@uci.edu Office: 206C SEI-PPD / 4556 SBS-PSB 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: psychological responses to extreme risk events, culture and risk perceptions, risk communication, research methodology, social psychology
Carol K. Whalen Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology & Social Behavior Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles Phone: (949) 824-6488 Email: ckwhalen@uci.edu Office: 4548 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: developmental psychopathology, childhood behavior disorders, child therapies, health psychology
Ilona S. Yim Associate Professor of Psychology & Social Behavior Ph.D. University of Trier, Germany Phone: (949) 824-0130 Email: ilona.yim@uci.edu Office: 4562 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway Specializations: stress, pregnancy and postpartum depression, biopsychology of stress, developmental psychobiology