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UC Santa Barbara General CatalogUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences
Building 251
Telephone: (805) 893-2791
Undergraduate e-mail: advising@psych.ucsb.edu
Graduate e-mail:  gradaffairs@psych.ucsb.edu
Website: www.psych.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Michael Miller 


 
Faculty
Nicole Albada, PhD, University of Florida, Lecturer SOE (adult development and aging, autobiographical memory, narrative methodology)
Andy Alexander, Assistant Professor
Michael Beyeler, PhD, UC Irvine, Assistant Professor (visual computing; computational neuroscience; applied AI; human-computer interaction; virtual/augmented reality) Joint Appointment: CMPSC
Nancy Collins, PhD, University of Southern California, Professor (close relationships, interpersonal perception, social support, health psychology, multivariate statistics)
Dan Conroy-Beam, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Associate Professor (mate choice, attraction, romantic relationships, evolutionary psychology, agent-based modeling)
Leda Cosmides, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (evolutionary psychology, cognition, motivation, emotions)
Miguel Eckstein, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (computational models of human vision, visual search, attention, perceptual learning, perception of medical images)
Alan Fridlund, PhD, University of Mississippi, Professor (social interaction, evolution and neurology of social behavior, social psychophysiology, sexology, psychopathology)
Tamsin Cleo German, PhD, University College London, Professor (cognitive development, developmental psychology, neuropsychology)
Barry Giesbrecht, PhD, University of Alberta, Professor (visual attention; attentional control; multitasking; exercise, physical stress, and cognition; cognitive neuroscience)
Michael Goard, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (neuroscience) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Scott Grafton, MD, University of Southern California, Professor (cognition, perception and cognitive neuroscience)
Mary Hegarty, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University, Professor (spatial cognition, individual differences, diagrammatic reasoning and comprehension)
Emily Jacobs, PhD, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor (cognitive neuroscience, women's health, endocrinology, reproductive aging)
Skirmantas Janusonis, PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Associate Professor (developmental and systems neuroscience)
Ron Keiflin, PhD, University of Bordeaux, Assistant Professor (behavioral neuroscience, associative learning, decision-making)
Heejung Kim, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (cultural psychology, cultural neuroscience, self-expression, social support, choice)
Tod Kippin, PhD, Concordia University, Professor (neuroscience and behavior)
Stanley Klein, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (social cognition, mental representation of self, memory, evolutionary psychology and philosophy)
Regina Lapate, Assistant Professor
Zoe Liberman, PhD, University of Chicago, Associate Professor (developmental psychology, social cognition, social categorization, infancy)
Richard Mayer, PhD, University of Michigan, Professor (human learning, problem-solving, educational psychology, human-computer interaction, multimedia learning, mathematical and scientific reasoning)
Michael Miller, PhD, Dartmouth College, Professor (cognitive neuroscience, human memory and decision-making, individual differences)
Shelly Gable Nayak, PhD, University of Rochester, Professor (motivation, emotion, close relationships)
David Pietraszewski, Assistant Professor
Kyle Ratner, PhD, New York University, Associate Professor (intergroup relations, social perception, social neuroscience, health psychology)
Nils Reimer, Assistant Professor
James Roney, PhD, University of Chicago, Professor (evolutionary psychology and human behavioral endocrinology)
Jonathan Schooler, PhD, University of Washington, Professor (consciousness, memory, social cognition)
Samantha Scudder, Lecturer Potential SOE
David Sherman, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (self, political polarization, social support, health psychology)
Ikuko Smith, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Assistant Professor (neuroscience, synaptic integration) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Tommy Sprague, PhD, UC San Diego, Assistant Professor (computational neuroimaging, attention, working memory, spatial cognition)
Karen Szumlinski, PhD, Albany Medical College, Professor (neuropsychopharmacology, neurobiology of addiction, alcoholism and related disorders, behavioral neuroscience)
Rene Weber, PhD, University of Technology Berlin, MD RWTH University Aachen, Professor (media & audience research, media neuroscience, research methods and statistics) Joint Appointment: COMM
Annie Wertz, Assistant Professor
Vanessa Woods, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Lecturer SOE (pedagogy, student success, high impact practices, neuroscience)
Hongbo Yu, Assistant Professor

 
Emeriti Faculty
F Ashby, PhD, Purdue University
James Blascovich, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno
Aaron Ettenberg, PhD, McGill University
John Foley, PhD, Columbia University
Michael Gazzaniga, PhD, California Institute of Technology
David Hamilton, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (social cognition, social perception)
Gerald Jacobs, PhD, Indiana University (visual neuroscience)
Jack Loomis, PhD, University of Michigan
Loy Lytle, PhD, Princeton University
Diane Mackie, PhD, Princeton University
Brenda Major, PhD, Purdue University
Charles Mc Clintock
Benjamin Reese, PhD, University of Oxford
Russell Revlin, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
A Sherman, PhD, Yale University

 
Affiliated Faculty
Richard Duran, PhD (Education)
Kyle Lewis, PhD (Technology Management)
Dan Montello, PhD (Geography)