Department Chair
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology
Professor Nock’s research is aimed at advancing the understanding why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide...
The human visual system can only select and keep track of a small handful of objects at any given moment. Yet, for the most part, people successfully...
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics
Harvard College Professor, 2014-2019
Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at Radcliffe, 2002-2008
Professor Banaji studies thinking and feeling as they unfold in social context, with a focus on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious...
Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and of Neuroscience
Randy Buckner received his BA in Psychology and his PhD in Neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a member of the Center for Brain...
A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being...
Professor Cikara studies how the mind, brain, and behavior change when the social context shifts from “me and you” to “us and them.” She focuses primarily...
Cushman's research aims to organize the astonishing complexity of moral judgment around basic functional principles. Much of it is motivated by a simple...
The Gershman lab's research aims to understand how richly structured knowledge about the environment is acquired, and how this knowledge aids adaptive...
The Greene lab studies the mechanics of moral thinking, and high-level cognition more generally, using behavioral experiments and functional neuroimaging...
John Lindsley Professor of Psychology in Memory of William James
Director of Undergraduate Studies
A major focus of Professor Hooley’s research interests concerns psychosocial (especially family) predictors of psychiatric relapse in patients with severe...
Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world...
Professor McNally’s main research emphasis has concerned the psychopathology of anxiety and related disorders (e.g., panic disorder, specific phobia,...
I use a combination of neuroimaging and behavioral measures to investigate the cognitive processes that support inferences about the psychological states...
The primary inspiration behind Professor Phelps’ research is the observation that emotions color our lives, and even subtle, everyday variations in our...
Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive psychologist and a popular writer on language, mind, and human nature. A native of Montreal, he earned his...
Schacter’s research is broadly concerned with understanding the nature and function of human memory, using cognitive, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging...
Professor of Psychology
Affiliate of the Department of Linguistics
My laboratory explores many facets of language development, comprehension, production and representation. We study typically developing children (from...
Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology
Director of Graduate Studies
Leah Somerville is the Grafstein Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Affective Neuroscience and Development Laboratory. She received a...
Spelke’s laboratory focuses on the sources of uniquely human cognitive capacities, especially young children’s prodigious capacities for fast and flexible...
Assistant Professor of Psychology (starting July 1, 2023)
Laboratory for Developmental Studies
Humans are born into complex social networks. My work investigates how infants, toddlers, and children learn about and navigate this network (i.e., their naive...
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