| | | Affiliations | Research question |
 | Doris Aaronson | Cognition & Perception
| How does language affect reading, memory, and problem solving? ... (more) |
 | Karen Adolph | Cognition & Perception
Developmental
Center for Neural Science
| How do infants learn new motor skills? ... (more) |
 | David Amodio | Social
Center for Brain Imaging | How is social behavior regulated? What are the neural mechanisms?... (more) |
 | Susan Andersen | Social Program Coordinator
Social
| How are everyday interpersonal relations influenced by past relationships with significant others? ... (more) |
 | Marisa Carrasco | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | What is attention? ... (more) |
 | Ted Coons | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
| How does music move us? ... (more) |
 | Clay Curtis | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior? ... (more) |
 | Lila Davachi | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How are memories formed? ... (more) |
 | Nathaniel Daw | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics | How does the brain learn from trial and error to make decisions? ... (more) |
 | Peter Gollwitzer | Social
Cognition & Perception
| How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior? ... (more) |
 | Todd Gureckis | Cognition & Perception | How do we learn through interaction with our environment? ... (more) |
 | David Heeger | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics | How does the brain account for conscious visual perception and visually-guided behavior? ... (more) |
 | Madeline Heilman | Social
| How do gender stereotypes affect evaluations of working women? ... (more) |
 | Souheil Inati | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics | What's the best way to image the activity of the brain? ... (more) |
 | John Jost | Social | How and why do people support the status quo? ... (more) |
 | Michael Landy | C & P Program Coordinator
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics | How does vision determine the size, shape, and boundaries of objects in our environment? ... (more) |
 | Larry Maloney | Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics
Center for Experimental Social Science | How do organisms gather information and act on it? ... (more) |
 | Alec Marantz | Cognition & Perception
Linguistics | How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation? (more) |
 | Gary Marcus | Cognition & Perception
Developmental | What are the building blocks of the mind? ... (more) |
 | Jim Matthews | Associate Dean of GSAS
Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
| Is togetherness in rodents more social than sexual? ... (more) |
 | Brian McElree | Associate Chair
Cognition & Perception
Social
| How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory? ... (more) |
 | Gregory Murphy | Cognition & Perception
| How does what you know affect the concepts you form? ... (more) |
 | Gabriele Oettingen | Social
Developmental
| How do you make your fantasies come true? ... (more) |
 | Denis Pelli | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging | How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces? ... (more) |
 | Liz Phelps | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics | What can cognitive neuroscience tell us about emotion? ... (more) |
 | Liina Pylkkänen | Cognition & Perception
Linguistics
Center for Neuromagnetism
| What are the neural bases of language? ... (more) |
 | Bob Rehder | Cognition & Perception | How does perceived cause and effect determine categories? ... (more) |
 | Pat Shrout | Social | How can we learn about the causes and modifiers of human suffering when strong experimental methods are not ethical or feasible? ... (more) |
 | Yaacov Trope | Social
Cognition & Perception | How does distance affect self control? ... (more) |
 | Tom Tyler | Chair
Social | What shapes people's motivation in group settings? ... (more) |
 | Jim Uleman | Social
Cognition & Perception | How do we perceive others, conciously and unconsciously, and what are the consequences? ... (more) |
 | Athena Vouloumanos | Cognition & Perception
Developmental | Is speech a special sound for humans? ... (more) |
 | Michael Westerman | Clinical | Why do some people relate to others in dysfunctional ways even though this leads to disappointments and distress? ... (more) |
 | David Wolitzky | Clinical | How do psychodynamic theories explain psychopathology and psychotherapy? ... (more) |
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| | Administrative Faculty | |
 | Barry Cohen | Director MA Program | Why do we tend to move our lips or even talk out loud when we are trying to think under very distracting circumstances? ... (more) |
| | Andrew Hilford | Associate Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies | How do people decide whether or not they have seen or experienced something at some point in the past? ... (more) |
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| | Teaching Faculty | |
 | Beth Bauer | Clinical Assistant Professor | How does knowledge of statistics help us make better choices? ... (more) |
 | Scott Eggebeen | MA Program
I/O Coordinator
Clinical Associate Professor | How do we assess corporate leaders to determine who might best succeed at more advanced levels in the future? ... (more) |
 | Scott Kellogg | Clinical Assistant Professor | |
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 | Shelly Chaiken | Social
| What does it take to change your mind? ... (more) |
| | Murray Glanzer | Cognition & Perception | Currently I am studying basic aspects of recognition memory, applying signal detection theory. ... (more) |
| | Leo Goldberger | Clinical | My research is on stress and coping, the Holocaust and altuistic behavior, psychoanalytic theory. |
| | Martin Hoffman | Clinical
Developmental | My long-term interest is social and emotional development, especially empathy, moral development, and the relation between the two. ... (more) |
| | Bob Holt | Clinical | |
| | Del Jenkins | Clinical | I am interested in the traditional clinical topics of psychodynamically oriented psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy and in the psychological experience of people of color in America, especially the psychological experience of African-Americans. ... (more) |
| | Lloyd Kaufman | Cognition & Perception
Center for Neural Science | How do humans perceive depth and size at truly vast distances? |
 | Diane Ruble | Social
Developmental
| Do girls learn to be girls? ... (more) |
| | Irving Sarnoff | Clinical | Partners in love and creativity... (more) |
| | Morris Stein | Social | What socio-psychological factors affect creativity? ... (more) |
| | Paul Vitz | | What is the intersection between Christian thought and theories of personality? ... (more) |
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| | Associated Faculty | |
 | Ned Block | Philosophy Dept.
Cognition & Perception | How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain? ... (more) |
| | Jerome Bruner | School of Law
Developmental | I'm interested in the various institutional forms by which culture is passed on -- most particularly in school practices and in legal codes and legal praxis. ... (more) |
| | Paul Glimcher | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging
Center for Neuroeconomics | My research on planning and action in the oculomotor system focusses on two structures that seem to pass these movement-related decisions to the superior colliculus: the substantia nigra and the parietal cortex. ... (more) |
| | Michael Hawken | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior. ... (more) |
| | Lynne Kiorpes | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My current research efforts include studies of the development of visual function in young macaque monkeys under conditions of normal and abnormal visual experience. ... (more) |
| | John Krauskopf | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | More recently, I have concentrated on problems of color vision using both psychophysical and electrophysiological techniques. ... (more) |
| | Joe LeDoux | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My current research is concerned with the identification of the neural systems and cellular mechanisms used by the brain to assign emotional significance to sensory stimuli. ... (more) |
| | Tony Movshon | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | I am interested in the way the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. ... (more) |
| | Nava Rubin | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | I study human visual perception and the neural basis of vision. ... (more) |
| | Mal Semple | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex. ... (more) |
| | Bob Shapley | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | My colleagues and I are interested in the neural mechanisms that lead to the visual perception of objects and patterns. ... (more) |
| | Eero Simoncelli | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception | My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery. ... (more) |
| | Wendy Suzuki | Center for Neural Science
Cognition & Perception
Center for Brain Imaging | What are the neural mechanisms underlying memory? ... (more) |
| | Sharon Weinberg | Teaching & Learning | |
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| | Affiliated Faculty | |
| | Howard Abikoff | Child Study Center | |
| | LaRue Allen | Applied Psychology Dept. | |
| | Murray Alpert | Medical Center | |
| Adam Buchwald | Steinhardt's Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Department
Cognition & Perception | What cognitive processes underlie the production and perception of spoken and written language? ... (more) |
| | Francisco Xavier Castellanos | Child Study Center
Center for Brain Imaging | |
| | Lisa Davidson | Linguistics
Cognition & Perception | Howdo people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found intheir native language?... (more) |
| Eric Dickson | Department of Politics
Social | How do social identities affect political behavior and beliefs about the political world? ... (more) |
| | Adamantios Gafos | Linguistics
Cognition & Perception | |
 | Diane Hughes | Applied Psychology | What do parents communicate to their children about race and intergroup relations? ... (more) |
| | Rachel Klein | Child Study Center | |
| | Harold Koplewicz | Child Study Center | |
| | Amy Krain | Child Study Center | |
 | Justin Kruger | Stern School of Business Marketing Department
Social
| How do people evaluate themselves and the world around them? ... (more) |
| | Lourdes Linares | Child Study Center | |
| | Laurie Miller | Child Study Center | |
 | Edward Seidman | Applied Psychology
| How can we help at-risk adolescents? ... (more) |
 | Beth Shinn | Applied Psychology
Public Policy
| How can social settings and social policies be modified to promote people's well-being? ... (more) |
| | Cathy Tamis-LeMonda | Applied Psychology | |
| Thomas Thesen | Medical Center's Department of Neurology
Cognition & Perception
| How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language? ... (more) |
| Eugene Tunik | Steinhardt's Physical Therapy Department | |
| Niobe Way | Applied Psychology | |
| | Hiro Yoshikawa | Applied Psychology | How can prevention programs and public policies in the United States improve developmental adaptation among the diversity of American children living in poverty? ... (more) |
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| | | Position | Courses |
 | Rita Aiello | Adjunct Associate Professor | Psychology of Music |
| | Robert Ausch | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Emotion and Its Development |
| | Deborah Browning | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Psychology of Adolescence |
 | Kenneth Carr | Adjunct Associate Professor | Physiological Basis of Abnormal Behavior
Physiological Basis of Behavior |
| | Barry Cohen | Program Director | Intermediate Master's Statistics |
 | Ben Dattner | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Organizational Development |
| | Scott Eggebeen | I/O Coordinator | Performance Measurements and Rewards
Management Consulting
Applied Research Methods |
 | Annette Flippen | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Work Motivation and Attitudes
Leadership and Strategic Change |
 | Paulette Forte | Adjunct Associate Professor | Introduction to Organizational Psychology
Psychology of Diversity |
 | Adrienne Gans | Adjunct Associate Professor | Group Dynamics
Executive Coaching
Quality of Work Life |
 | Andrew Getzfeld | Adjunct Associate Professor | Child Development |
 | Leyla Gulcur | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Cross-cultural Psychology |
| | Orna Guralnik | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Group Dynamics |
 | Elizabeth Howell | Adjunct Associate Professor | Gender Roles |
 | Matt Jones | Adjunct Associate Professor | Intro to I/O Psychology
Training in Organizations
Personnel Selection |
| | Zoran Josipovic | Adjunct Associate Professor | |
| | Pamela Karp | Adjunct Assistant Professor | |
| | Stacey Lutz | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Psychology of Social Behavior |
 | Boaz Mourad | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Psychology of Decision Making |
| | Jessica Pearson | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Forensic Psychology |
 | Robert Pierro | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Foundations of Psychopathology |
| | Bruce Reis | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Traumatic Stress Reactions |
 | Margaret Rombone | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Personality Disorders |
 | Christopher Rotolo | Adjunct Associate Professor | Intro to I/O Psychology
Personnel Selection |
 | David Ruhland | Adjunct Associate Professor | Clinical Research Design
Health Psychology |
 | Nicholas Samstag | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Psychoanalytic Theory |
 | Suzan Uysal | Adjunct Assistant Professor | Neuropsychology |
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