Department of Psychology

Faculty

Anne Berry
Anne Berry
Assistant Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3278 Lemberg Hall, 101
Office Hours: Mon 1-2pm and Tue 3-3:30 pm

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging.

Hannah Clark
Hannah Clark
Assistant Professor of Psychology
781-736-3280 Lemberg Hall, 105
Office Hours: Thu 10-12 noon or by appointment. Zoom available upon request.

Expertise: Early adversity, intimate partner violence, mechanisms of risk and resilience, and traumatic stress.

Paul DiZio
Paul DiZio
Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-2043 Rabb Graduate Center, 115
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 10-11 am

Expertise: Human spatial orientation, posture and balance, movement control and coordination, sensory-motor adaptation, motor development, multi-sensory interactions, space perception, space flight physiology, human factors in virtual environments, motion sickness, brain-computer interaction.

Angela Gutchess
Angela Gutchess
Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Department Chair
781-736-3247 Lemberg Hall, 106
Office Hours: by appointment

Expertise: Effects of age and culture on memory and social cognition.

Jennifer Gutsell
Jennifer Gutsell
Graduate Program Head
Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3308 Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 220
Office Hours: Thursday 11am-12pm

Expertise: Social and affective neuroscience; cross-group resonance; emotion and self-control; empathy and environmentalism.

James Howard
James Howard
Assistant Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3252 Lemberg Hall, 104
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 2-3 pm and by appointment

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, reward, learning, decision-making, chemosensation.

Shantanu Jadhav
Shantanu Jadhav
Associate Professor of Psychology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3147 Bassine Science Building, 301
Office Hours: by appointment

Expertise: Neurophysiology of learning and decision-making.

Donald Katz
Donald Katz
Professor of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-3268 Bassine Science Building, 345
Office Hours: Mon & Wed 10-11:30 am

Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning.

Margie Lachman
Margie Lachman
Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology
781-736-3255 Lemberg Hall, 107
Office Hours: Thursdays 2 to 3 p.m. and by appointment

Expertise: Life-span development, midlife, aging, sense of control, adult personality, memory, health-promoting behaviors, intervention research to improve cognitive and physical functioning.

James Lackner
James Lackner
Meshulam and Judith Riklis Professor of Physiology and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
781-736-2033 Rabb Graduate Center, 114
Office Hours: by appointment

Expertise: Spatial orientation, human movement control, adaptation to unusual force environments.

Xiaodong Liu
Xiaodong Liu
Coordinator, Master's Program
Associate Professor of Psychology
781-736-3244 Brown Social Science Center, 106
Office Hours: Thu 10 am to 11:50 am or by appointment

Expertise: Applied statistics; linear and nonlinear multilevel modeling / hierarchical linear modeling (HLM); structural equation modeling (SEM); general and generalized linear modeling; longitudinal data analysis child development: factors (at individual, familial, communal and cultural levels) related to child psychological adjustment (internalizing and externalizing) and school performance.

Teresa Vann Mitchell
Teresa Vann Mitchell
Assistant Professor of Psychology
781-736-5333 Brown Social Science Center, Brown 107
Office Hours: Mon 1-3 pm and Thu 12:30-1:30 pm

Expertise: Developmental cognitive neuroscience and psychology.

Robert Sekuler
Robert Sekuler
Louis and Frances Salvage Professor of Psychology
781-736-3277 Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 242
Office Hours: Tue 1-2pm

Expertise: Visual perception, cognitive processes, particularly visual memory, navigation of complex environments, imitation of seen actions, age-related changes in cognitive function.

Hannah R. Snyder
Hannah R. Snyder
Associate Professor of Psychology
781-736-3272 Lemberg Hall, 102
Office Hours: Tues 2-3 pm, Thur 11-12 by Appointment booking link: https://calendar.app.google/EYV8pfWgKd3FYFBX7

Expertise: Cognitive processes, adolescent development, developmental psychopathology.

Ellen Wright
Ellen Wright
Undergraduate Advising Head
Associate Professor of Psychology
781-736-2809 Brown Social Science Center, 128
Office Hours: Mon 12-1:30 pm, Thurs 10-11:30 am or by appointment and Zoom: https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/94826297098

Expertise: The intersection between clinical psychology, depression, gender, development, emotion regulation, specifically: gender and developmental differences in and risks for depression; risk, resiliency and depression prevention; emotion regulation, self-focused attention, rumination and reflection; coping, and development; psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology and affective disorders (i.e., postpartum depression and premenstrual dysphoric disorder).

Adjunct Faculty

Sarah Lupis
Sarah B. Lupis
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Office Hours: Wed Remotely 7:30-9pm; https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/4186626789 and in person by appointment

Expertise: Intersectionality of emotion and sympathetic nervous system and neuroendocrine stress responses, and predictors and moderators of these underlying mechanisms, including the effects of age, culture, gender and body image.

Marissa Digirolamo
Marissa Digirolamo
Brown 103
Office Hours: Tues 11:30 am - 12:30 pm or by appointment or zoom https://brandeis.zoom.us/j/7314516212
Mercedes B. Villalonga
Mercedes B. Villalonga
Lecturer in Psychology
Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 242
Office Hours: Office hours: Tues. 10:30-11:50am or by appointment

Expertise: Visual attention, spatial attention, perceptual timing, multimodal (visuo-audio-tactile) perception, prediction and uncertainty, psychophysics.

Emeriti

Joseph Cunningham
Joseph Cunningham
Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Expertise: Clinical and developmental psychology, nonverbal communication, emotional development; gender differences.

Maurice Hershenson
Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Expertise: Visual space perception and information processing; monocular visual space perception: size and shape constancy and the metric perceived space.

Raymond Knight
Raymond Knight
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
781-736-3259 Lemberg Hall, 103
Office Hours: by appointment

Expertise: Clinical psychology and experimental psychopathology, with specific expertise in psychopathy, sexual aggression and bullying.

Malcolm Watson
Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Expertise: Developmental psychology.

Arthur Wingfield
Arthur Wingfield
Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience
781-736-3270 Volen National Center for Complex Systems, 363

Expertise: Age-related hearing loss in older adults and its effects on cognitive function, speech comprehension and memory.

Jerome Wodinsky
Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Expertise: Comparative psychology, learning theory, sensory physiology.

Leslie Zebrowitz
Leslie Zebrowitz
Professor Emeritus of Psychology

Expertise: Social psychology, face perception, facial stereotypes (babyfaceness, attractiveness), aging and social perception.