Department Chair:

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Klein, Daniel. Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo, 1983. Department Chair and Professor, Clinical
Mood disorders in youth and adults; temperament and personality development.

Faculty:

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Anderson, Brenda J. Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1993. Associate Professor and Area Head, Integrative Neuroscience
Biological basis for the effects of exercise and stress on mental health and cognition.
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Aron, Arthur. Ph. D. University of Toronto, 1970. Professor, Social & Health
Self-expansion model of motivation and cognition in personal relationships and intergroup relations/prejudice; social neuroscience; personality/temperament.
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Bernard, Kristin Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2013, Assistant Professor, Clinical
Child maltreatment; Neurobiological consequences of early life adversity; Parent-child relationships; Early parenting interventions; Psychobiology of parenting and attachment.
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Brennan, Susan. Ph.D. Stanford University, 1990. Professor, Cognitive Science
Language use and processing in communicative contexts; psycholinguistics; coordination in dialogue; collaborative cognition; human-computer interaction.
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Davila, Joanne. Ph.D. UCLA, 1993. Professor and Area Head, Clinical
Development and course of interpersonal functioning and psychopathology among adolescents and adults; interpersonal causes and consequences of depression and anxiety disorders; adolescent romantic and sexual experiences; well being among LGBT individuals.
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Eaton, Nicholas R. Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 2012. Assistant Professor, Clinical
Classification and structure of personality and psychopathology; quantitative methods and psychometrics; human sexuality; individual/group differences and mental health.
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Franklin, Nancy. Ph.D. Stanford, 1989. Associate Professor, Cognitive Science
False memory, metacognitive assessments of one's own memory, situation models.
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Freitas, Antonio. Ph.D. Yale, 2002. Associate Professor, Social & Health
Motivation, self-regulation, social cognition, particularly identifying the goal representations that guide action.
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Gerrig, Richard. Ph.D. Stanford, 1984. Professor, Cognitive Science
Psycholinguistics, especially the implications of non-conventional language for theories of language processing and processes that give rise to and that follow from readers' experiences of being transported by narratives.
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Goldfried, Marvin. Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo, 1961. Professor, Clinical
Psychotherapy integration; Gay/lesbian/bisexual issues.
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Hajcak, Greg. Ph.D. University of Delaware, 2006. Associate Professor, Clinical
Psychophysiological approaches to studying emotion and cognition in the context of psychopathology and risk; anxiety disorders and their treatment; depression; psychosis and schizophrenia.
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Lerner, Matthew. Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2013. Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology
Elucidating novel models of and processes underlying social functioning in youth; Design and development of empirically-supported social competency interventions for youth with developmental disorders (e.g. Autism Spectrum Disorders & Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder); Therapeutic process variables (mediators and moderators of outcomes) in social competency intervention research; Developmental psychopathological and neuroplastic models of social competence deficits; Peer relations and their impact on developmental psychopathology.
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Leung, Hoi-Chung. Ph.D. Northwestern, 1997. Associate Professor, Integrative Neuroscience
Neural basis of cognitive processes, with particular emphasis on the prefrontal cortex and on working memory.
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Levy, Sheri. Ph.D. Columbia, 1998. Associate Professor, Social & Health
Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations; Social-Developmental Determinants of Prejudice; Prejudice Reduction; Sexism; Racism; Helping and Volunteerism.
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Lobel, Marci. Ph.D. UCLA, 1989. Professor and Area Head, Social & Health
Stress, coping, and their effects on health, with an emphasis on pregnancy.
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London, Bonita. Ph.D. Columbia University, 2006. Assistant Professor, Social & Health
Social identity and intergroup processes; stereotyping and prejudice, stress and coping, social and motivational factors in academic achievement.
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Luhmann, Christian. Ph.D. Vanderbilt University, 2006. Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
High-level cognition; causal and associative learning, probabilistic reasoning, economic and perceptual decision making, neuroimaging and computational modeling.
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Mohanty, Aprajita. Ph.D. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, 2007. Assistant Professor, Clinical
• Psychological and neural mechanisms involved in emotion, attention and their interaction.
• The role of emotion-attention mechanisms in normal function and anxiety.
• Impact of emotion on decision making in normal function and psychopathology
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Moyer, Anne. Ph.D. Yale, 1995. Associate Professor, Social & Health
Psychosocial issues surrounding cancer and cancer risk, women’s health, research methodology and meta-analysis, the psychology of research participation.
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O'Leary, Daniel. Ph.D. Univ. Illinois, 1967. Distinguished Professor, Clinical
Etiology, prevention, and treatment of psychological and physical aggression in intimate relationships; multivariate models (biological, psychological, and social) of intimate partner aggression; the bidirectional role of marital problems and depression; marital and dyad based treatments for clinical depression; prevalence and correlates of intense love.
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Rachlin, Howard. Ph.D. Harvard, 1965. Research Professor, Cognitive Science
Studying choice and decision-making in humans and non-humans with the aim of understanding the psychological and economic basis of self-control, addiction, social cooperation, and altruism.
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Rajaram, Suparna. Ph.D. Rice, 1991. Professor, Cognitive Science
Cognitive processes and neural structures that govern human memory and amnesia; explicit and implicit memory.
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Samuel, Arthur. Ph.D. UCSD, 1979. Professor, On leave for the 2011-2012 academic year, Cognitive Science
Perception, language, attention, and memory. The majority of his research in the last two decades has investigated both bottom-up and top-down processes in speech recognition.
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Squires, Nancy. Ph.D. UCSD, 1972. Professor, Integrative Neuroscience
Brain basis of sensory and cognitive processes, including face recognition and language processing.
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Waters, Everett. Ph.D. Univ. Minnesota, 1977. Professor, Social & Health
Interpersonal relationships; attachment relationships from infancy through adulthood.
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Waters, Harriet. Ph.D. Univ. Minnesota, 1976. Professor, Social & Health
Social cognition; cognitive development, particularly development of cognitive strategies and problem solving skills.
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Whitaker-Azmitia, Patricia. Ph.D. Univ. Toronto, 1979. Professor, Integrative Neuroscience
Neuropharmacology, with emphasis on the role of serotonin in brain development.
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Wortman, Camille. Ph.D. Duke, 1972. Professor, Social & Health
Bereavement, with a particular emphasis on how people react to the sudden, traumatic death of a loved one.
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Zelinsky, Gregory. Ph.D., Brown, 1994. Associate Professor and Area Head, Cognitive Science
Visual cognition (attention, search, scene perception, and visual working memory), with emphasis on the behavioral and computational study of eye movements in visual search.
Adjunct Faculty
Anthony (Tony) Napoli, Ph.D., University at Stony Brook (1996)
Statistics, Research Design and Psychometrics
Anthony Napoli (Social/Health)
Phone: (631) 548-2676

Associated Faculty
Anat Biegon, Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (1980)
Senior Scientist, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Labs (Biopsychology)
Brain response to traumatic, ischemic or inflammatory insults
Website: http://www.bnl.gov/medical/Personnel/Biegon/default.htm

Barbara Burkhard, Ph.D., University at Stony Brook (1976)
Assistant Professor and Director, Child Treatment Program - North Suffolk Center (Social/Health)
Child abuse and neglect.

Peter Caprariello, Ph.D., University of Rochester (2012)
Assistant Professor, College of Business
Money, relationships, and happiness.

Judith A. Crowell, M.D., University of Vermont (1978)
Associate Professor, Psychiatry (Social/Health)
Child and adolescent psychiatry; the attachment system across the life span; parent-child and adult-adult interactions.

Janet Fischel, Ph.D., University at Stony Brook (1978)
Professor, Pediatrics (Clinical)
Behavioral and developmental pediatrics; developmental language disorders and emergent literacy skills; psychological management of disorders of elimination.

Rita Goldstein, Ph.D., University of Miami (1999)
Assistant Scientist, Brookhaven National Labs (Biopsychology)
Neuroimaging, Substance abuse, Neuropsychology.
Website: http://www.bnl.gov/medical/Personnel/Goldstein/default.htm

Mary Kritzer, Ph.D., Yale University ( )
Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior (Biopsychology)
Gonadal Hormone Influence over Function and Dysfunction in the Cerebral Cortex
Website: http://www.hsc.stonybrook.edu/som/neurobiology/kritzer.cfm

Lauren Krupp, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1981)
Associate Professor, Neurology (Biospsychology)
Neuropsychological and neurobehavioral characteristics of chronic mental illness; interrelationship between memory performance and mood disturbance in chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, and Multiple Sclerosis.
Website: http://inf-hscweb.hsc.sunysb.edu/som/neurology/krupp.cfm

Marta Maczaj, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry (Biopsychology)
Director of the Stony Brook Sleep Disorders Center

Lawrence P. Morin, Ph.D., Rutgers University - Institute of Animal Behavior (1974)
Professor, Psychiatry (Biopsychology)
Biological rhythms; environment and reproduction; endocrine system and behavior.
Website: http://inf-hscweb.hsc.sunysb.edu/som/psychiatry/morin_l.cfm

Joyce Sprafkin, Ph.D., University at Stony Brook (1978)
Associate Professor, Psychiatry (Clinical and Social/Health)
Child psychopathology; AHDH; tic disorders; effects of television on child behavior.

Sarah Sternglanz, Ph.D., Stanford University (1973)
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program (Social/Health)
Stress, coping, and illness; immune system functioning and health.

Arthur Stone, Ph.D., University at Stony Brook (1978)
Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry (Clinical and Social/Health)
Stress, coping, and illness; immune system functioning and health.

Peter Thanos, Ph.D., Eastern Virginia Medical School (1997)
Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Neuroimaging, Brookhaven National Lab (Biopsychology)
Addiction, including: alcohol, drug abuse and obesity.
Website: http://www.bnl.gov/thanoslab/