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Department of Psychology


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: Geraldine Downey, Ph.D.
402C Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.8718


Director of Graduate Studies: Niall Bolger, Ph.D.
402A Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.3608


Director of Graduate Student Teaching: Lois E. Putnam, Ph.D.
314 Schermerhorn
Tel: 212.854.4550


Dissertation Sponsors

Peter Balsam:
Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina, 1976
Interests: Animal learning and the roles of experience in behavioral development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Niall Bolger:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1987
Interests: Close relationships, personality processes, stress, coping, and adjustment; diary and experience sampling methods, statistical models for longitudinal and time series data
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Frances Anne Champagne:
Assistant Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., McGill University, 2004
Interests: Neurobiology of maternal care and epigenetic mechanisms of transmission of behavior across generations;the influence of mother-infant interactions in shaping the neuroendocrine systems regulating maternal behavior, the origins of individual differences in behavior, environmental and neuroendocrine determinants of reproductive behavior
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lynn Cooper:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1973
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience, visual cognition and perception
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul Currie:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Geraldine Downey:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1986
Interests: Psychological and contextual mediators of intergenerational continuity in violence and depression
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Norma V. S. Graham:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1970
Interests: Interpreting data from psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of vision by the application of mathematical models
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carl Hart:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Wyoming, 1996
Interests: Evaluation of drug effects on workplace-relevant behaviors and the development and implementation of new executive cognitive tasks that can be used to assess the functioning of drug abusers
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Larry B. Heuer:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1986
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
E. Tory Higgins:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Social cognition, self and affect, motivation and cognition, social development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Julian Hochberg:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1949
Interests: Perception of real and represented objects and events, both social and physical; the perceptual, attentional, and cognitive factors that underlie reading text and apprehending motion pictures; applied experimental psychology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Donald Hood:
Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Brown, 1969
Interests: Psychophysics and electrophysiology of vision
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David H. Krantz:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1964
Interests: Problem solving, decision making, induction, and math education; applications of axiomatic measurement theory; perception, especially psychophysics, color vision
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert M. Krauss:
Professor, Ph.D., NYU, 1964
Interests: Verbal and non-verbal communication; functions of hand gestures; language and thought
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sarah H. Lisanby:
Associate Professor, M.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jennifer Mangels:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1995
Interests: Cognitive neuroscience of memory, attention, temporal processing; event-related potential and cognition
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Leonard Matin:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1959
Interests: Perception and cognitive neuroscience of space and form; vision, extraretinal processes, eye movements and other sensorimotor processes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Janet Metcalfe:
Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Toronto, 1982
Interests: Meta-cognition and neuropsychology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Walter Mischel:
Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1956
Interests: Personality structure, processes and development; self-control; personality inferences, Hot/Cool
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kevin Ochsner:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1998
Interests: Emotion and emotion regulation, self and self-regulation, memory; roles of prefrontal-amygdala interactions, medial prefrontal, and cingulated cortices in self-monitoring and self-regulation; dysfunctional emotion regulation in psychiatric disorders, including depression, relationship between stress and PFC function
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lois E. Putnam:
Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison), 1975
Interests: Psychophysiology of attention and emotion, human emotion and attentional processes, and their development
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eshkol Rafaeli:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert E. Remez:
Professor, Ph.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Rae Silver:
Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Rutgers, 1972
Interests: Neurobiology of circadian rhythms; Identification and functional analysis of the mammalian biological clock; functions of cells in the brain
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Edward Smith:
Professor (Psychology), Ph.D., Michigan, 1966
Interests: Cognitive and neural bases of working memory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yaakov Stern:
Associate Professor (Psychiatry and Neurology), Ph.D., City University, New York City, 1983
Interests: Neuroimaging approaches to cognition across the life span, cognitive neuroscience of aging, and heterogeneity of Alzheimer's disease
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven J. Stroessner:
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Herbert S. Terrace:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1961
Interests: Animal cognition, comparative psychology of serial memory, "language"-like behavior in apes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tor Wager:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1998
Interests: Neural and psychological bases of cognitive and affective control; analysis of behavioral performance and fMRI; developing image analysis and statistical modeling methods; combining fMRI and behavioral studies with other human neuroscience methodologies, including TMS, neuropsychology, PET ligand binding, and ERP/EEG
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elke Weber:
Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Ph.D., Harvard, 1984
Interests: Works at the intersection of psychology and economics with expertise on behavioral models of judgment and decision making under risk and uncertainty, specifically environmental decision making and policy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Barbara Woike:
Associate Professor, PhD
Interests: Personality, implicit and explicit motivation and their influence on memory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sarah Woolley:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Washington, 1999
Interests: Acoustic communication and the neural basis of auditory perception in songbirds
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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