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Faculty

	Paul Boxer	Professor 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.
	Mauricio Delgado	Professor & Chair 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.
	William Graves	Associate Professor 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.
	Stephen José Hanson	Professor & RUBIC Director Computational neuroimaging, memory and learning, connectionist models, categorization, big data modeling.
	Kent Harber	Professor 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.
	Samantha Heintzelman	Assistant Professor Psychological well-being; the experience of meaning in life; positive emotions; personality and individual differences.
	Barry Komisaruk	Distinguished Professor Brain activity related to genital stimulation, sexual response, orgasm, and analgesia in women and men, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
	Vanessa LoBue	Professor & Graduate Director Cognitive, emotional, and perceptual development in infants and young children; threat perception; fear learning.
	Jacqueline S. Mattis	Dean of Faculty 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.
	Kimele Persaud	Assistant Professor 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
	Luis Rivera	Associate Professor Implicit social cognition; effect of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination on stigmatized individuals' self-concept and identity, and mental and physical health.
	Miriam Rosenberg-Lee	Assistant Professor Functional neuroimaging of mathematical cognition; cognitive development; learning disabilities; cognition in autism spectrum disorders; learning and reasoning.
	Harold Siegel	Professor Attachment theory; adult attachment; attitudes toward mother and other adult relationships.
	Karen Smith	Asisstant Professor Stress and individual differences, emotional development, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, value-based decision making.
	Elizabeth Tricomi	Associate Professor Functional neuroimaging of learning and decision making; the influences of affective information on cognitive processing, neural basis of goal-directed behavior.
	Gretchen Van de Walle	Associate Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator Conceptual development in infants and young children; epistemic cognition; reasoning about science.

Research Faculty

Michael Shiflett	Research Assistant Professor & Neuroscience Major Coordinator
Jamil Bhanji	Research Assistant Professor & Assistant Graduate Director

Emeritus Faculty

Colin Beer	Professor Emeritus Communication behavior, social development, and breeding biology of gulls.
Mei-Fang Cheng	Professor Emeritus Social factors in adult neurogenesis. Her initial work at Rutgers-Newark involving classic experiments of gonadectomy and hormone replacement established links between ovarian steroids and female reproductive behaviors. Then via a combination of experimental approaches she established the notion of self-stimulation by which the behavior expressed by a female dove retroactively affects her own behavior and physiology. She also demonstrated the presence of an active neurogenesis in the hypothalamus of doves in response to local lesions and the contribution of the new neurons to the behavioral recovery after lesions.
Alan Gilchrist	Professor Emeritus Visual cognition; surface-color perception.
Ken Kressel	Professor Emeritus Social and interpersonal conflict; behavior and unconscious cognitive schema of professionals who mediate conflict; expertise in mediation and related fields (e.g marital therapy; organizational ombudsman).

Teaching Faculty

Gerard La Morte	Assistant Teaching Professor	glamorte@psychology.rutgers.edu
Jamie Gorman	Teaching Instructor	gormanj@psychology.rutgers.edu
Ellen Halpern	Teaching Instructor	halperne@psychology.rutgers.edu
Ramona Ross	Teaching Instructor and Assistant Undergraduate Director	ramross@psychology.rutgers.edu
Christina Zambrano	Assistant Teaching Professor	cz147@psychology.rutgers.edu

Part-Time Lecturers

Brent Costleigh	bcostleigh@brookdalecc.edu
Eugene DeRobertis	ederobertis@brookdalecc.edu
Frank Gengaro	frankg@psychology.rutgers.edu
Matthew Giobbi	matthew.giobbi@rutgers.edu
Diana Glynn	diana.glynn@rutgers.edu
Nan Jacobson-Wise	nanwise@psychology.rutgers.edu
Margaret Maghan	mmaghan@psychology.rutgers.edu
Allyson Meloni	melonia@psychology.rutgers.edu
Warren Reich	reichw@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Brian Sexton	brian.sexton@rutgers.edu
Roxanne Vega	rvega@psychology.rutgers.edu

Associated Graduate Faculty from Other Departments

Ken Aizawa	ken.aizawa@rutgers.edu
Jennifer Austin	jbaustin@newark.rutgers.edu
April Benasich	benasich@newark.rutgers.edu
Elizabeth Bonawitz	elizabeth_bonawitz@gse.harvard.edu
Raffaella DeRosa	gabri@newark.rutgers.edu
Mark Gluck	gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu
Joan Morrell	jmorrell@newark.rutgers.edu
Catherine Myers	cemyers@newark.rutgers.edu
Patrick Shafto	patrick.shafto@gmail.com