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Faculty

	Elizabeth Bonawitz	Associate Professor Cognitive development and computational modeling; causal, social inference; conceptual change
	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.
	Alan Gilchrist	Professor Visual cognition; surface-color perception.
	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	Associate Professor & Graduate Director Cognitive, emotional, and perceptual development in infants and young children; threat perception; fear 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.
	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

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.

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 and Assistant Undergraduate Coordinator	glamorte@psychology.rutgers.edu
Ellen Halpern	Teaching Instructor and Assistant Graduate Director	halperne@psychology.rutgers.edu
Christina Zambrano	Assistant Teaching Professor	cz147@psychology.rutgers.edu

Part-Time Lecturers

Katy Blacker	kblacker@psychology.rutgers.edu
Mary Cahill	mefritzhill@gmail.com
Carey Curry	carey.curry@rutgers.edu
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@psychology.rutgers.edu
Jamie Gorman	gormanj@psychology.rutgers.edu
Nan Jacobson-Wise	nanwise@psychology.rutgers.edu
Robert Kurland	rkurland@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
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