PBS faculty and their trainees conduct cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and are recognized as world-class contributors to their fields. In addition, we have numerous faculty and teaching assistants who have been recognized for excellence in mentoring and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. All of these efforts are supported by the outstanding staff and students who are key to the success of our department.
Most members of our department are present in this directory, which can be filtered by Research Areas, Center and Institute Affiliations, and/or Positions. To see groups of researchers with similar interests, regardless of their research areas, try entering relevant search terms below.
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Attitudes, intentions, and behavior; behavior change
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer
My research uses neuroimaging techniques to explore the relationship between attention and language processing across the life span.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Assistant Professor
Culture, morality, historical psychology, cultural evolution, and computational text analysis.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Our lab focuses on understanding circuit functions for social behavior and social recognition throughout life.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Vision and attention in reaching; motor learning; manual search in toddlers; working memory and executive function in support of search.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in PBS is teaching large, small, and online undergraduate courses. I am a personality and social psychologist by training.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emeritus, Alumnus
We studied the effects and mechanisms of action of steroid hormones on the brain and behavior, as well as the effects of environmental and pubertal influences on those effects.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Teaching of undergraduate statistics, Western philosophical and Eastern mystical approaches to Consciousness. Putting the finishing touches on a text titled Introductory Statistics Using R.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Research interests include international justice mechanisms, reconciliation processes, how the human rights framework impacts conflict resolution, and understanding conflict
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Post-doc
Research interests include:
Sleep and memory consolidation across development and environmental influences on sleep in early childhood.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Professor
I study various aspects of visual cognition, focusing on visual attention, visual search, and the interference between targets and distractors in complex visual scenes.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Speech perception; Cognitive neuroscience of language
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Senior Lecturer, Honors Program Director
Early conceptual development; Infants' understanding of objects, agents, and the socio-moral behavior of other people.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology
Graduate Student
suicide prevention; social processes; health equity
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor Emeritus
I was on the UMass faculty from 1968 until 2008, primarily doing research on sentence comprehension, both reading and listening.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Reasoning, judgment, decision-making, and computational modeling.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor
Psychotherapy process, outcome, integration, implementation; patient, therapist, relational factors; patient-centered, measurement-based care; psychotherapy training; adult depression, anxiety
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Provost Professor
Prejudice and stereotyping; implicit social cognition; self-concept, STEM education.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Lecturer
My teaching interests include the development of cognitive control and executive functions, and the factors that influence mechanisms underlying these abilities in both typical and atypical cases.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
Self-Regulation; Child/Adolescent Social-Emotional and Cognitive Development; Parenting and Adult Development; Developmental Psychopathology; Individual Differences
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
intergroup relations, status inequalities, prejudice reduction, perspective taking, empathy, peace and reconciliation, social change
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Graduate Student
Suicide and self-damaging behaviors, interpersonal-emotional processes, minority stress, emotion regulation
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
International Exchange Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor Emeritus
Basic condititioning research and associated neural processes, implications of basic processes for complex behavior, biobehaviorally constrained neural-network simulations
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
I study how circadian rhythms affect metabolism at the organismal level and cellular level, such as how circadian disruption-induces weight gain and how astrocytes and neurons share metabolites
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor
I study deception and honesty as social presentational strategies in everyday life, as well as examining the factors that underlie and promote academic success in college students.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emerita
Visual Neuroscience and Comparative Neuroanatomy
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Interested in the study of the neuronal mechanisms of maladaptive reward and stress behaviors that induce pathological conditions such as drug addiction and eating disorders.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Fellow
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Psychotherapy process, outcome, and integration; therapist effects; psychotherapy training; mental health care disparities; measurement-based care; patient-centered research; common factors; consensus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Assistant Professor
Early-life Exposure to Trauma and Violence; Developmental Psychopathology of PTSD; Culture and Mental Health; Intervention Adaptation and Evaluation
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Research Fellow
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Post-doc
Research interests: learning and memory, behavioral neuroendocrinology, aging and cognition
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
race; racism; social cognition; privilege; racial identity; mixed race Black children
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Associate Professor
Early childhood psychopathology; normative vs. impaired emotion regulation; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; pediatric irritability; early childhood therapeutic interventions
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus, Rudd Family Foundation Chair
Research focuses on relationships in adoptive families across time, openness in adoption, and on identity development and adjustment in adolescents and young adults.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
I am Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. student in the Developmental Science Program. I am interested in the relationship between internal numerical representations and symbolic representations of number.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus
Issues in clinical training and supervision; psychotherapy integration; ethical issues in professional psychology; teaching of psychology; psychology and sports
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
mobile technology implications; parenting; early academic interventions
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor Emerita
Early development of ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders in preschool children and toddlers. Interests include executive function, emotion regulation, parenting, and culture.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Reasoning, judgment, and decision-making
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Spaulding-Smith Fellow
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
psycholinguistics; sentence processing (reading); computational psych/ling
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Feldman-Vorwerk Family Professor in Social Psychology
Affect and cognition; social cognition; stigma and mental illness; emotions and medical decision-making; diagnostic error in medicine
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emerita
Moral psychology; political psychology; social justice; social cognition.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Associate Professor
My research focuses on speech perception, with a special emphasis on audiovisual speech perception.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Interests: Apolipoprotein E4, Emotion Regulation, Alzheimer's Disease, fMRI
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor, Associate Chair for Research
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
My current research focuses on the association between specific deficits in impulsivity and risk-taking behavior in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Senior Research Fellow; Adjunct Visiting Asst. Professor
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Reward-based learning and decision making; Motor learning and performance; Developmental changes in adolescence; fMRI; EEG; EMG; eye tracking; hormone assays.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
Cognitive aging in nonhuman primates, with particular interest in Alzheimer's disease, sex steroids and women's cognitive health
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Emotion regulation, Coping strategies, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Senior Lecturer, Director of Methodology (CRF), Alumni
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor
After a PhD in social psychology at The New School for Social Research and a postdoc at the University of California at Davis, I joined UMass's Psychology of
Peace and Violence Program in 2011.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor
Emotion, social cognition; intergroup relations, societal conflict and cooperation.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Postdoctoral Researcher, Alumni
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Assistant Professor
Development of social cognition across human and nonhuman primates; cognitive bias; intergroup relations; race, gender, social status; stress and resilience
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Director of Psychological Services Center, Professor of Practice
Dr. Martell's scholarly activity has focused on the development of behavioral activation in the treatment of depression and on applying affirmative CBT with LGBT individuals.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
Research Interests: memory, aging, visual perception
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Learning and the development of attention and executive functions across early to middle childhood; self regulation, emotion processing, and the influence of early adversity on development; EEG; ERP.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Assistant Professor
Close relationships and health across sociocultural contexts; Discrimination and health in ethnic minority and immigrant children and adolescents.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science, Social Psychology
Associate Provost for Academic Programs at the Mount Ida Campus, Senior Lecturer II
My primary role in the department is teaching and advising. My background is in neuroscience and behavior.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Associate Professor
Cellular and network mechanisms of motivation, learning, and executive functions. Psychiatric diseases resulting from disruption of these neural systems.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
intergroup conflict, prejudice, intergroup contact, contact through music/arts
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emerita
Research interests focused on the development of memory and cognition in infants, toddlers, and preschool children.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor Emeritus
No longer actively engaged in cognitive research but still working on issues in statistical analysis, currently focusing on mixed-effect models of data analysis.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Aging, memory and emotion regulation, fMRI, neuropsychological markers of MCI and Alzheimer's Disease
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor and Honors Faculty
Cognitive, neural (fMRI/EEG), and developmental mechanisms underlying the acquisition and emergence of uniquely human and culturally-transmitted abilities such as reading and mathematics.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Associate Professor
Flexibility and Plasticity in Maternal Brain Circuitry across Postpartum
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor, Department Chair
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Developmental Science
Professor Emerita
Close relationships, emotion; social cognition, health, gender.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emerita
As a developmental psychopathologist, my research examines the interaction of neuroendocrine, social, and psychological factors in depression and anxiety disorders throughout the human life span.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Dr. Ready earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Univ of Iowa. Internship and clinical neuropsychology fellowship were at Brown Univ. She is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Associate Professor
Influences of social factors, including peers and stigma, on health behaviors and outcomes. Improving health promotion interventions.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor
We study hormone action and production in brain circuits using a variety of approaches.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor Emerita
Recognition memory and reasoning. Research tools include signal detection analyses and event-related potentials. I am not accepting new students.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Currently, my research interests lie primarily in how statistics anxiety develops within introductory statistics courses.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor, Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Neurocognitive research on basic auditory perception, speech perception, and selective attention with the goal of helping listeners (including children and older adults) understand speech in noise.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Tejas received his MS in CSE from IIIT Hyderabad. He is interested in developing computational models using Machine Learning techniques to explain neural functions.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
I study how hormones affect the brain and social behavior in animals.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Professor
Physiology and cognitive functions of sleep in development and aging; learning and memory; sleep (polysomnography); activity monitoring (actigraphy).
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science
Postdoctoral Researcher
I study auditory systems neuroscience and social behavior in songbirds.
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience
Postdoctoral Researcher
I am currently interested in the relationships between physical activity and sleep/cognition in early childhood and preadolescence.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
I explore human memory as it unfolds in time by applying computational models that predict both accuracy and response time data. I also investigate methods for improving statistical reasoning.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor
Psycholinguistics, including lexical and syntactic processing in comprehension; eye movements in reading.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Group violence, mass killing, genocide; post-conflict healing and reconciliation; bystanders; youth violence; raising altruistic children.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Professor Emerita
Internal versus External locus of control. Gender differences in health. Women and Depression.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Graduate Student
I am interested in studying how children understand their social worlds, including group hierarchy and group identities. I am passionate about working with people from different cultural contexts.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Professor
Prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, status inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination, collective action, social change, peace and reconciliation.
Research Area(s):
Social Psychology
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graduate Student
Black maternal health, perinatal mental health, postpartum depression, risk, resilience
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduat Student
Research Area(s):
Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor Emeritus
Cognition, cognitive neuroscience, statistical reasoning and analysis.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor Emerita
Personality and cognitive processes thru adulthood. Projects include a longitudinal study of personality from college thru retirement and the Age Friendly University.
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Senior Lecturer, Program Director DDHS
Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families
Research Area(s):
Developmental Science
Graduate Student
My current research interests focus on nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and other maladaptive emotion regulation strategies.
Research Area(s):
Clinical Psychology
Graduate Student
I am fascinated by language processing in the brain. My research focuses on Chinese visual character/word recognition, spoken word identification, as well as audtiory-visual speech perception.
Research Area(s):
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience