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UW Psychology Faculty

John Baer

Research Professor
Brief and preventive interventions for substance use; Process and outcome of addiction treatment; Motivational interviewing; Training evaluation

David Barash

Professor
Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Psychology, Peace Studies

Kimberly Barrett

Senior Lecturer
Race, Ethncity, & Culture in Child Development, Ethnic Identity Formation, Children's Experiences with Racism

Miriam Bassok

Associate Professor
Learning, Problem Solving, Analogical Reasoning

Theodore Beauchaine

Robert Bolles & Yasuko Endo Associate Professor
Child Psychopathology, Biobehavioral Models of Disinhibition & Emotion Regulation, Clinical Research Methods, Taxometrics

Michael Beecher

Professor of Psychology and Zoology
Animal Behavior, Animal Communication, Sensory Processes

Ilene Bernstein

Professor
Behavioral Neuroscience, Mechanisms Affecting Learning, Motivation & Taste Preference

Lainie Berry

Geoffrey Boynton

Associate Professor
Visual perception and its neural basis

Eliot Brenowitz

Professor of Psychology and Zoology
Animal Behavior, Neuroethology, Neuroendocrinology, Animal Communication

Jonathon Brown

Associate Professor
Nature, Origins, & Consequences of Self-Esteem

Steven Buck

Professor & Chair
Visual perception, color vision, rod-cone interactions, neural substrate of human vision

John Cassedy

Research Professor Emeritus
Auditory Brainstem Pathways, Integrative Functions of the Inferior Colliculus

Ana Mari Cauce

Earl Carlson Professor of Psychology; Professor of American Ethnic Studies; Executive Vice Provost
At-risk Children, Adolescents, & Families; Ethnic Minority Youth; Homeless Youth; Adolescent Substance Abuse; Community Psychology

Sapna Cheryan

Assistant Professor
Stereotypes, Identity, Diversity, Belonging, Group Status

Ellen Covey

Professor
Integration of Auditory Signals by the Mammalian Nervous System, Echolocation in Bats

Geraldine Dawson

Professor
Child Neuropsychology, Electrophysiology, Assessment & Treatment of Autism

Jaime Diaz

Professor
Brain Development, Developmental Psychopharmacology, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Corey Fagan

Senior Lecturer; Director, Psychological Services & Training Center
Psychotherapy with Adolescents & Adult Women, Individual & Family Therapy for Adults & Adolescents

Fred Fiedler

Professor Emeritus
Leadership and group effectiveness, social and organizational psychology

Ione Fine

Assistant Professor
Learning & Memory, Vision Research, Developmental Biology

Douglas Fitts

Research Associate Professor
Neurobiology, Salt/Water Regulation, Drinking

Brian Flaherty

Assistant Professor
Measurement; Analysis of change over time; Substance use and development of dependence

William George

Professor
Alcohol Use & Sexuality, Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors, Sexual Assault, Cultural Issues

Lexi Giblin

Lecturer
Eating disorders, body image dissatisfaction, children and adolescents

John Gottman

Professor Emeritus
Children's Emotional Development, Children's Friendships, Family Interaction, Marital Interaction, Social Psychophysiology

Anthony Greenwald

Professor
Unconscious and implicit cognition; prejudice and stereotypes; subliminal priming

James Ha

Research Associate Professor
Primate Development, Behavior, & Reproduction; Corvid (Crow) Social Foraging; Orca Social Behavior

Renee Ha

Lecturer
Foraging, Evolution of Social Behavior in Corvids & Primates, Molecular Genetics

Earl Hunt

Professor Emeritus
Individual Differences in Cognition, Cognition in Education & the Workplace, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation Models of Reasoning, Mathematical Models of Thought

Current CV

Kayo Inoue

Susan Joslyn

Senior Lecturer
Decision Making in Applied Settings, Autobiographical Memory

Peter Kahn

Associate Professor
Social and Moral Development. Human-Robot Interaction. The Psychological Effects of Digitized Natural Information

Cheryl Kaiser

Assistant Professor
Self, Social Identity, Prejudice, Stigma, Social Justice, Intersection of Social Science and Law

Lynn Katz

Research Associate Professor
Effects of Marital Discord on Children, Antisocial Children, Social Psychophysiology, Family Interaction

Nancy Kenney

Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Psychology
Associate Professor of Women Studies
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Egg Donation, Motherhood,Role of Reproduction on Women's Lives, Social Attitudes, Experiences

Beth Kerr

Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Cognition, Attention, Human Motor Control and Learning, Human Factors

Jeansok Kim

Associate Professor
Neurocognitive effects of stress; Emotional plasticity; Associative learning

Kevin King

Assistant Professor
Pathways to Alcohol and Drug Use and Dependence, Stress and Coping, Developmental Psychopathology, Longitudinal Methods

Heather Knapp

Robert Kohlenberg

Professor
Clinical Behavior Modification, Learning, Biofeedback, Psychotherapy

Randall Kyes

Research Professor
Head, Div. of Intl. Programs, WaNPRC
Animal Behavior, Primate Behavior/Cognition, Conservation Biology

Liliana Lengua

Associate Professor
Understanding the roles of temperament emotionality and self-regulation, appraisal and coping in children's vulnerable or resilient responses to disadvantage, stress, & family disruptions; and examining the interaction and transaction bewteen children's temperament and parenting to predict emotional, social and behavioral adjustment.

Janxin Leu

Assistant Professor
Culture, Emotion, Immigrant Health

Debbie Leung

Marsha Linehan

Professor
Behavioral Assessment & Therapy, Suicide & Parasuicide, Borderline Personality Disorders, Drug Abuse, Behavior Therapy with Women

Laura Little

Senior Lecturer & Assistant Chair
Teaching of Statistics & Methodology, Philosophy of Science

Joan Lockard

Professor Emeritus
Primatology, Primate Social Behavior, Human Ethology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary & Neural Mechanisms of Social Behavior

Patricia Loesche

Lecturer

Geoffrey Loftus

Professor
Visual Perception, Relations Between Low-Level Visual & Higher-Order Cognitive Processing, Confidence & Accuracy in Recognition Memory, Eyewitness Testimony, Statistics & Methodology (particularly problems with null hypothesis significance testing), mathematical models of visual perception and memory, and Computer Applications

G. Alan Marlatt

Professor
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy & Assessment, Addictive Behaviors, Relapse Prevention, Harm Reduction, Health Psychology

Lois McDermott

Senior Lecturer
Adult Clinical Psychology; Human Sexuality & Reproductive Physiology

Robert McMahon

Professor
Assessment, Prevention, & Treatment of Conduct Disorders; Developmental Psychopathology, Child & Adolescent Tobacco Use, Family Interaction

Andrew Meltzoff

Professor
Co-director, UW Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
Social and Cognitive Development in Infants and Young Children; Memory, Intentionality.

John Miyamoto

Associate Professor
Mathematical Psychology, Preference & Utility Theory, Cognitive Theories of Deductive & Inductive Inference, Medical Decision Making

Sheri Mizumori

Professor
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Plasticity, Spatial Learning & Memory

Scott Murray

Assistant Professor
Visual Perception, Attention, Functional Neuroimaging

Dana Nelson

Sean O'Donnell

Associate Professor, Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology
Neural, Physiological, and Genotypic Effects on Social Organization & Division of Labor in Insects, Evolution of Social Behavior, Tropical Community Ecology

Adrian O'Loghlen

Jaime Olavarria

Associate Professor
Organization, Function, & Development of Neuronal Pathways in the Mammalian Central Visual System

Lee Osterhout

Professor
Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience

John Palmer

Research Professor
Perception and Cognition, especially Visual Attention. Quantitative interests include the modeling of accuracy and response time experiments.

Michael Passer

Senior Lecturer
Social Psychology, Teaching of Psychology

Maria Pereverzeva

Betty Repacholi

Assistant Professor
Social-cognitive and emotional development during infancy and early childhood.

Gene Sackett

Professor Emeritus
Primate Behavior, Early Experience & Development

Barbara Sarason

Research Professor Emeritus
Social Support, Stress, Cognitive Coping Skills, Personality Variables, Personal Relationships

Irwin Sarason

Professor Emeritus
Personality, Social Support, Stress & Anxiety

Yuichi Shoda

Professor
Social Cognition, Generation and Perception of Personality Coherence

Jane Simoni

Professor
Clinical Area Coordinator
Clinical Practicum Director
Clinical Health & Community Psychology in Stigmatized Populations

Joseph Sisneros

Assistant Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor Biology
Sensory neurobiology, animal physiology and behavioral biology

David Slagle

Ronald Smith

Professor
Director of Clinical Training
Personality, Stress & Coping, Human Performance Enhancement Interventions, Clinical Psychology, Sport Psychology Research & Interventions

Frank Smoll

Professor
Sport Psychology, Leadership Behavior in Youth Sports, Psychological Correlates of Motor Development

Jessica Sommerville

Assistant Professor
early social and physical reasoning; action/perception linkages; role of agency in cognitive development; memory development

Davida Teller

Professor Emeritus
Vision, Color Vision, Visual Development in Infants

Ann Voorhies

Tsu-Wei Wang

Taejib Yoon

Lori Zoellner

Associate Professor
Information processing abnormalities in the anxiety disorders, with emphasis on the prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder