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PSB Home Faculty and Research
The Department of Psychology and Social Behavior is home to an outstanding 25-member faculty, representing several specialties including developmental, social, health, biological, clinical, and community psychology. United by an overarching interest in human adaptation in various sociocultural and developmental contexts, the faculty share a strong commitment to research that has the potential for application to important societal problems. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to research problems is also characteristic of our faculty, reflecting the core values of the School of Social Ecology. These values are reflected in the research interests of the faculty, which include:
- Social development and developmental transitions across the life course
- The impact of day care and other social environments on children
- The challenges of integrating work and family roles
- The cultural contexts of emotion, cognition, and behavior
- Personality and psychophysiological processes that underlie health and illness
- The social, community and cultural contexts of anger, aggression, and violence
- Neural bases of mathematical and language learning
- The mental and physical health effects of life stress, including societal stressors such as economic downturns and natural disasters
- Perceptions of and responses to health and environmental risks
- Loneliness and social support in later life
- Decision making at the end of life
- The psychobiology of stress and its role in health and disease
- Impacts of increasing Internet use on people's participation in local environments and social networks
- Ecological analyses of human development, behavior, and well-being
- Contextual influences on the effectiveness of cross-disciplinary collaborative teams
- Psychological science and practice as it interacts with the legal system
See individual faculty pages for more information on research interests
The research of faculty members and graduate students combines laboratory methods with more naturalistic approaches in order to achieve an optimal blend of experimental control and generalizability. The natural settings in which faculty members conduct their studies include schools, worksites, homes, community centers, hospitals and medical clinics, psychiatric facilities, and women's shelters. This work has been conducted, moreover, not only in the United States but also in other countries. Thus students who pursue their studies in the Department have the opportunity to gain experience investigating human behavior in clinical and nonclinical populations, in a diverse region of the country as well as in diverse cultures, and in field as well as laboratory settings. Moreover, several of our faculty members have received campus-wide awards for excellence in teaching, in mentoring undergraduate researchers, and in training doctoral students to become effective teachers.
Departmental faculty also enjoy an excellent track record of attracting extramural support for their research, with an average of approximately $1.5 million in annual funding over the last 5 years. Extramural funding for the current fiscal year is over $2.1 in direct costs; multi-year awards to departmental faculty currently exceed $12 million. Current sources of extramural funding for over 20 active grants include the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
PSB Faculty
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Elizabeth E. Cauffman, Associate Professor |
| Ph.D. Temple University |
| Specializations: adolescent development, mental health, psychopathy, juvenile justice, female delinquency, legal and social policy |
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Susan Turk Charles, Associate Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Southern California |
| Specializations: emotional processes across the adult life span, subjective experience and cognitive processes, health and emotion |
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Chuansheng Chen, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Michigan |
| Specializations: cross-cultural psychology, socialization of achievement, adolescent development, brain imaging of language and mathematical learning |
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Sally Dickerson, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles |
| Specializations: stress physiology; psychoneuroimmunology; effects of social evaluation or rejection on emotional and physiological outcomes; self-conscious emotions; health psychology |
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Peter H. Ditto, Professor |
| Ph.D. Princeton University |
| Specializations: social cognition, motivated judgment and decision-making process, social psychology |
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C. David Dooley, Professor and Chair |
| Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles |
| Specializations: community psychology, epidemiology, economic change |
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Joanne Frattaroli, Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment |
| Ph.D. University of California, Riverside |
| Specializations: expressive writing, meta-analysis, positive psychology, health psychology, preventive medicine, educational psychology |
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Wendy Goldberg, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Michigan |
| Specializations: developmental psychology, work and family, parental involvement in education, transition to parenthood, autism |
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Jutta Heckhausen, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain |
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Specializations: life-span developmental psychology, motivation and developmental regulation in children, adolescents, and adults, control and health, cultural universals and differences in achievement behavior
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Larry Jamner, Professor |
| Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| Specializations: health psychology, psychophysiology, biopsychosocial factors related to tobacco use in youth |
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Eric D. Knowles, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
| Specializations: cultural influences on social judgment; White racial identity; beliefs and attitudes concerning intergroup inequality; social and political ideology |
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Linda J. Levine, Associate Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Chicago |
| Specializations: relations between cognitive and emotional development, how emotions influence attention and memory, the development of children's strategies for coping with negative emotions |
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Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distinguished Professor |
| Ph.D. Stanford University |
| Specializations: human memory, psychology and the law, how facts, ideas, suggestions and other forms of post-event information can modify our memories |
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Salvatore R. Maddi, Professor |
| Ph.D. Harvard University |
| Specializations: personality, psychopathology, health psychology, creativity |
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Raymond W. Novaco, Professor |
| Ph.D. Indiana University |
| Specializations: anger, stress, violence, cognitive-behavioral interventions |
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Candice L. Odgers, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Virginia |
| Specializations: developmental psychopathology; longitudinal analysis of growth and change; effects of externalizing disorders on health |
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JoAnn Prause, Senior Lecturer with Security Of Employment |
| Ph.D. University of California, Irvine |
| Specializations: social costs of inadequate employment, adverse effects of unemployment, progression of alcohol disorder, early onset drinking among adolescents |
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Jodi Anne Quas, Associate Professor |
| Ph.D. University of California, Davis |
| Specializations: memory development, the effects of stress on memory, emotional reactivity in childhood, childrens' involvement in the legal system, childrens' eyewitness testimony |
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Karen S. Rook, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles |
| Specializations: gerontology, social psychology, health psychology, social support and social networks. |
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Roxane Cohen Silver, Professor |
| Ph.D. Northwestern University |
| Specializations: coping with stressful life events (e.g., personal traumas, natural disasters, terrorism) |
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Jennifer Skeem, Associate Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Utah |
| Specializations: mental illness and criminal justice, personality disorder and antisocial behavior, violence risk assessment and treatment |
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Daniel Stokols, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Specializations: health impacts of environmental stressors, environmental design and social behavior, processes and outcomes of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration |
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Carol K. Whalen, Professor |
| Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles |
| Specializations: child and adolescent psychopathology, ADHD across the life span, developmental health psychology, pharmacotherapy |
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Ilona S. Yim, Assistant Professor |
| Ph.D. University of Trier, Germany |
| Specializations: psychobiology of stress, stress in pregnancy, women's health, developmental psychobiology, behavioral genetics, assessment of stress |
Emeritus and Research Professors
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K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, Research Professor |
| Ph.D. Yale University |
| Specializations: development in early childhood and the effects of variation in the social environment |
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Thomas Crawford, Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Ph.D. Harvard University
Specializations: attitude theory and social problems research |
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Ellen Greenberger, Research Professor
Ph.D. Harvard University
Specializations: developmental psychology, cross-cultural research, cultural, family and peer influences on "normal" and problematic adolescent development, transition to adulthood, origins and consequences of self-entitlement. |
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Elaine Vaughan, Research Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University
Specializations: environmental assessment, risk perceptions, research methodology, social psychology |
Affiliated Psychology and Social Behavior Faculty
- Margaret R. Burchinal, Ph.D. email: mburchin@uci.edu
- Lawrence F. Cahill, Ph.D. email: lfcahill@uci.edu
- Bryan J. Kemp, Ph.D. email: bkemp@uci.edu
- Lindsey Richland, Ph.D. email: lerich@uci.edu
- Michael D. Rugg, Ph.D. email: mrugg@uci.edu
- Mark Steyvers, Ph.D. email: msteyver@uci.edu
- William Thompson, J.D., Ph.D. email: wcthomps@uci.edu
- Deborah L. Vandell, Ph.D. email: dvandell@uci.edu
- Pathik Wadhwa, M.D., Ph.D. email: pwadhwa@uci.edu
Lecturers and Professional Researchers
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