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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

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William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Dept of Psychology

learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

Robert Thomas Knight

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, language, physiology, memory, attention, psychology, working memory, neuropsychology, human prefrontal cortex, neural mechanisms of cognitive processing, sensory gating, sustained attention, ad novelty detection

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Dept of Psychology

comparative psychology, evolution of cognition, developmental psychology

Laura Kray

Haas School of Business

gender, negotiations, stereotypes, decision making, mindsets, motivated cognition

William Jagust sitting in front of a monitor of brain images.

Dept of Neuroscience

neuroscience, cognition, brain aging, dementia, imaging, Alzheimer's disease

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Lance Kriegsfeld

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

Neuroendocrinology, NeuroendocrinologyCircadian Biology, cognition, mental health, Neuroimmunology, animal behavior

Erica R. Bailey

Haas School of Business

authenticity, self-perception, personality, social cognition, social movements and activism

Andrea A. diSessa

School of Education

education, cognition, conceptual development, science education, design of technology for education, computational literacies

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, cognition, attention, visual perception, vision, visually guided action, human factors

Sameer B. Srivastava in lecture setting

Sameer Srivastava

Haas School of Business

culture, cognition, social networks, social capital, organizational sociology, formal organizations, social influence

School of Education

mathematical cognition, design-based research, mixed-media design for mathematics learning environments, embodied interaction

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Ozlem Ayduk

Dept of Psychology

emotion regulation, social-cognition in interpersonal relationships, self-control, violence, developmental psychology, psychology, depression

Frederic Theunissen

Frederic Theunissen

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience

Serena Chen

Dept of Psychology

Self and identity, close relationships, social cognition, social psychology, relational self, collective self, social power, hierarchy, status

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Juliana Schroeder

Haas School of Business

social cognition, judgment and decision making, interpersonal and intergroup processes, social psychology, organizational performance, negotiations, morality, decision-making, conversation/communication

School of Education

development, education, cognition, human development, development of social judgments and action, the development of moral reasoning, children’s conceptions of authority, rules in school settings, culture and social development

Jack Glaser

Goldman School of Public Policy

policing, criminal justice, research methods, public policy, experimental social psychology, hate crime, political psychology, stereotyping, racial profiling, prejudice & discrimination, nonconscious social cognition

Dr. Worrell with CAL Prep Students

Frank C. Worrell

School of Education

development, education, cognition, academic talent development, adolescence, African American, at-risk youth, English-speaking Caribbean, ethnic identity, gifted, psychosocial development, racial identity, school psychology, teacher effectiveness, Trinidad and Tobago, time perspective

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

design theory and methods, automation, decision-making applied to engineering teams and individuals, ideation and creativity, analogical reasoning in design, preference modeling and design attribute optimization, design cognition, neuroimaging methods applied to design, sustainable design, New product development, crowdsourcing and collaboration

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, Bayesian probabilistic models, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking