Faculty
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Professor & RUBIC Director Computational neuroimaging, memory and learning, connectionist models, categorization, big data modeling. |
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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. |
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Samantha Heintzelman |
Assistant Professor Psychological well-being; the experience of meaning in life; positive emotions; personality and individual differences. |
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Distinguished Professor Brain activity related to genital stimulation, sexual response, orgasm, and analgesia in women and men, measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). |
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Professor & Graduate Director Cognitive, emotional, and perceptual development in infants and young children; threat perception; fear learning. |
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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. |
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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 |
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Associate Professor Implicit social cognition; effect of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination on stigmatized individuals' self-concept and identity, and mental and physical health. |
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Assistant Professor Functional neuroimaging of mathematical cognition; cognitive development; learning disabilities; cognition in autism spectrum disorders; learning and reasoning. |
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Professor Attachment theory; adult attachment; attitudes toward mother and other adult relationships. |
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Karen Smith |
Asisstant Professor Stress and individual differences, emotional development, affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, value-based decision making. |
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Associate Professor Functional neuroimaging of learning and decision making; the influences of affective information on cognitive processing, neural basis of goal-directed behavior. |
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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 |
jbaustin@newark.rutgers.edu |
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benasich@newark.rutgers.edu | |
Elizabeth Bonawitz | elizabeth_bonawitz@gse.harvard.edu |
gabri@newark.rutgers.edu |
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gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu |
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jmorrell@newark.rutgers.edu |
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cemyers@newark.rutgers.edu |
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Patrick Shafto | patrick.shafto@gmail.com |