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All	Cognition & Perception	Social	Developmental concentration	Quantitative minor

NYU Psychology Faculty

	Affiliations	Research question
Karen Adolph	Cognition & Perception Developmental Center for Neural Science	How do infants learn new motor skills? ... (more)
David Amodio	Social Program Coordinator Social Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neural Science	How is social behavior regulated? What are the neural mechanisms?... (more)
Susan Andersen	Social	How are everyday interpersonal relations influenced by past relationships with significant others? ... (more)
Emily Balcetis	Social	How do motivations influence perception? ... (more)
Marisa Carrasco	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	What is attention? ... (more)
Ted Coons	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How does music move us? ... (more)
Clay Curtis	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior? ... (more)
Lila Davachi	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	How are memories formed? ... (more)
Nathaniel Daw	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics	How does the brain learn from trial and error to make decisions? ... (more)
Peter Gollwitzer	Associate Chair Social Cognition & Perception	How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior? ... (more)
Todd Gureckis	Cognition & Perception	How do we learn through interaction with our environment? ... (more)
David Heeger	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics	How does the brain account for conscious visual perception and visually-guided behavior? ... (more)
Madeline Heilman	*Director of Graduate Studies* Social	How do gender stereotypes affect evaluations of working women? ... (more)
John Jost	Social Department of Politics Center for Experimental Social Science (CESS) Institute for Law and Society (ILS)	How and why do people support the status quo? ... (more)
Eric Knowles	Social Assistant Professor	How do prejudice, identity, and ideology shape social behavior and political judgment?
Brice Kuhl	Cognition & Perception	How do we remember the past, why do we forget it, and what are the underlying neural mechanisms
Michael Landy	*C & P Program Coordinator* Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics	How does vision determine the size, shape, and boundaries of objects in our environment? ... (more)
Larry Maloney	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics Center for Experimental Social Science	How do organisms gather information and act on it? ... (more)
Alec Marantz	Cognition & Perception Linguistics	How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation? (more)
Gary Marcus	Cognition & Perception Developmental	What are the building blocks of the mind? ... (more)
Brian McElree	Cognition & Perception Social	How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory? ... (more)
Gregory Murphy	*Chair* Cognition & Perception	How does what you know affect the concepts you form? ... (more)
Gabriele Oettingen	Social Developmental	How do you make your fantasies come true? ... (more)
Denis Pelli	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging	How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces? ... (more)
Liz Phelps	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics	What can cognitive neuroscience tell us about emotion? ... (more)
David Poeppel	Cognition & Perception	What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition? .... (more)
Liina Pylkkänen	Cognition & Perception Linguistics Center for Neuromagnetism	What are the neural bases of language? ... (more)
Bob Rehder	*Director of Undergraduate Studies* Cognition & Perception	How does perceived cause and effect determine categories? ... (more)
Marjorie Rhodes	Cognition & Perception Social Developmental	How do concepts develop? ... (more)
Pat Shrout	Social Program Coordinator Social	How can we learn about the causes and modifiers of human suffering when strong experimental methods are not ethical or feasible? ... (more)
Yaacov Trope	Social Cognition & Perception	How does distance affect self control? ... (more)
Jim Uleman	Social Cognition & Perception	How do we perceive others, consciously and unconsciously, and what are the consequences? ... (more)
Jay Van Bavel	Social Cognition & Perception	How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others? ... (more)
Athena Vouloumanos	Cognition & Perception Developmental	Is speech a special sound for humans? ... (more)
Tessa West	Social	How do individuals influence one another's thoughts and feelings during interpersonal interactions... (more)
Michael Westerman	Clinical	Why do some people relate to others in dysfunctional ways even though this leads to disappointments and distress? ... (more)
David Wolitzky	Clinical	How do psychodynamic theories explain psychopathology and psychotherapy? ... (more)
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Administrative Faculty
Barry Cohen	*Director MA Program*	Why do we tend to move our lips or even talk out loud when we are trying to think under very distracting circumstances? ... (more)
Andrew Hilford	Associate Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies	How do people decide whether or not they have seen or experienced something at some point in the past? ... (more)
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Teaching Faculty
Beth Bauer	Clinical Assistant Professor	How does knowledge of statistics help us make better choices? ... (more)
Scott Eggebeen	MA Program I/O Coordinator Clinical Associate Professor	How do we assess corporate leaders to determine who might best succeed at more advanced levels in the future? ... (more)
Scott Kellogg	Clinical Assistant Professor
Marjorie McMeniman	Clinical Faculty
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Emeritus & Retired Faculty
Doris Aaronson	Cognition & Perception	How does language affect reading, memory, and problem solving? ... (more)
Shelly Chaiken	Social	What does it take to change your mind? ... (more)
Murray Glanzer	Cognition & Perception	Currently I am studying basic aspects of recognition memory, applying signal detection theory. ... (more)
Leo Goldberger	Clinical	My research is on stress and coping, the Holocaust and altruistic behavior, psychoanalytic theory.
Martin Hoffman	Clinical Developmental	My long-term interest is social and emotional development, especially empathy, moral development, and the relation between the two. ... (more)
Bob Holt	Clinical
Del Jenkins	Clinical	I am interested in the traditional clinical topics of psychodynamically oriented psychodiagnosis and psychotherapy and in the psychological experience of people of color in America, especially the psychological experience of African-Americans. ... (more)
Lloyd Kaufman	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	How do humans perceive depth and size at truly vast distances?
John Krauskopf	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	More recently, I have concentrated on problems of color vision using both psychophysical and electrophysiological techniques. ... (more)
Jim Matthews	Cognition & Perception Center for Neural Science	Is togetherness in rodents more social than sexual? ... (more)
Diane Ruble	Social Developmental	Do girls learn to be girls? ... (more)
Irving Sarnoff	Clinical	Partners in love and creativity... (more)
Paul Vitz		What is the intersection between Christian thought and theories of personality? ... (more)
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Associated Faculty
Ned Block	Philosophy Dept. Cognition & Perception	How can consciousness be explained in terms of the brain? ... (more)
Jerome Bruner	School of Law Developmental	I'm interested in the various institutional forms by which culture is passed on -- most particularly in school practices and in legal codes and legal praxis. ... (more)
Paul Glimcher	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging Center for Neuroeconomics	My research on planning and action in the oculomotor system focuses on two structures that seem to pass these movement-related decisions to the superior colliculus: the substantia nigra and the parietal cortex. ... (more)
Michael Hawken	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My interest is in the role neurons play in visual perception and visuomotor behavior. ... (more)
Lynne Kiorpes	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My current research efforts include studies of the development of visual function in young macaque monkeys under conditions of normal and abnormal visual experience. ... (more)
Joe LeDoux	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My current research is concerned with the identification of the neural systems and cellular mechanisms used by the brain to assign emotional significance to sensory stimuli. ... (more)
Tony Movshon	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging	I am interested in the way the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. ... (more)
Nava Rubin	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging	I study human visual perception and the neural basis of vision. ... (more)
Mal Semple	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My research currently embraces studies at the auditory brainstem, midbrain, and cortex. ... (more)
Bob Shapley	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging	My colleagues and I are interested in the neural mechanisms that lead to the visual perception of objects and patterns. ... (more)
Eero Simoncelli	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception	My research addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery. ... (more)
Wendy Suzuki	Center for Neural Science Cognition & Perception Center for Brain Imaging	What are the neural mechanisms underlying memory? ... (more)
Sharon Weinberg	Teaching & Learning
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Affiliated Faculty
Howard Abikoff	NYU Child Study Center
LaRue Allen	Steinhardt Applied Psychology Dept.
Adam Alter	Stern Marketing Department Social
Joshua Aronson	Steinhardt Applied Psychology Dept. Social
Adam Buchwald	Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception	What cognitive processes underlie the production and perception of spoken and written language? ... (more)
F. Xavier Castellanos	NYU Child Study Center Center for Brain Imaging
Lisa Davidson	Department of Linguistics Cognition & Perception	How do people learn to produce and perceive sounds that are not found in their native language?... (more)
Eric Dickson	Department of Politics Social	How do social identities affect political behavior and beliefs about the political world? ... (more)
Jonathan Haidt	Business & Society Program Area Social	I study morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures.
Hal Hershfield	Stern School of Business	How do we interact with and care for our future selves?
Diane Hughes	Steinhardt Applied Psychology Social	What do parents communicate to their children about race and intergroup relations? ... (more)
Rachel Klein	NYU Child Study Center
Amy K Roy	NYU Child Study Center
Justin Kruger	Stern Marketing Department Social	How do people evaluate themselves and the world around them? ... (more)
Susannah Levi	Steinhardt's Dept. of Communicative Sciences and Disorders Cognition & Perception	How do people learn to deal with variability in the speech signal? ... (more)
Joe Magee	Wagner School of Public Service Stern Management and Organizations Department Social	How does social structure affect individual and interpersonal psychology? ... (more)
Laurie Miller Brotman	NYU Child Study Center
Edward Seidman	Steinhardt Applied Psychology	How can we help at-risk adolescents? ... (more)
Cathy Tamis-LeMonda	Steinhardt Applied Psychology
Thomas Thesen	Department of Neurology Cognition & Perception	How does the brain integrate information from the different senses and process language? ... (more)
Niobe Way	Steinhardt Applied Psychology
Gerald Voelbel	Steinhardt Occupational Therapy

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MA Faculty/Adjunct Faculty
	Position	Courses
Mike Abrams	Adjunct Associate Professor	Modern Psychological Treatments Psychology of Sexuality
Rita Aiello	Adjunct Associate Professor	Psychology of Music
Robert Ausch	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Emotion and Its Development
Virginia Barber-Rioja	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychology of Violence
Deirdre Barrett	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Deborah Browning	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychology of Adolescence
Kenneth Carr	Adjunct Professor	Physiological Basis of Abnormal Behavior Physiological Basis of Behavior
Barry Cohen	Program Director	Intermediate Master's Statistics
Ben Dattner	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Organizational Development
Scott Eggebeen	I/O Coordinator	Performance Measurements and Rewards Management Consulting Applied Research Methods
Annette Flippen	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Work Motivation and Attitudes Leadership and Strategic Change
Paulette Forte	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Introduction to Organizational Psychology Psychology of Diversity
Jenifer Talley	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychology of Addiction
Adrienne Gans	Adjunct Associate Professor	Group Dynamics Executive Coaching Quality of Work Life
Andrew Getzfeld	Adjunct Associate Professor	Child Development
Leyla Gulcur	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Cross-cultural Psychology
Matt Jones	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Intro to I/O Psychology Training in Organizations Personnel Selection
Zoran Josipovic	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Cognitive Neuroscience
Pamela Karp	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Introduction to Psychological Testing
Scott Barry Kaufman	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Cognitive Psychology
Stephanie Keer	Adjunct Professor	Master's Statistics
Michael Klein	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Clinical Research Design
Stacey Lutz	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychology of Social Behavior
Boaz Mourad	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Psychology of Decision Making
Ozge Ozturk	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Developmental Psychology
Jessica Pearson	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Forensic Psychology
Robert Pierro	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Foundations of Psychopathology
Christopher Rotolo	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Intro to I/O Psychology Personnel Selection
Lise Saari	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Group Dynamics Personality and Organizational Behavior
Suzan Uysal	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Neuropsychology
Barry Winkler	Adjunct Assistant Professor	Forensic Assessment
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