46 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology (LSA) at University of Michigan.
- John Jonides, Edward E. Smith Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience h-index 102
Cognition; Memory; Neuroimaging; Neuroscience
Notable: “Storage and Executive Processes in the Frontal Lobes” (1999) · 2,812 citations
- Shinobu Kitayama, Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor; Director of the Culture & Cognition Program h-index 91
Social Psychology
Notable: “Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.” (1991) · 20,817 citations
- Aidan Wright, Clinical Science Area Chair; Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry h-index 82
Clinical Science; Psychopathology; Personality; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP): A dimensional alternative to traditional nosologies.” (2017) · 3,206 citations
- Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience h-index 71
Aging; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroimaging; Affective Emotional
Notable: “The Adaptive Brain: Aging and Neurocognitive Scaffolding” (2008) · 2,774 citations
- Jacqui Smith, Professor of Psychology and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research h-index 69
Aging; Cognition; Affective Emotional; Developmental Psychology
Notable: “New Frontiers in the Future of Aging: From Successful Aging of the Young Old to the Dilemmas of the Fourth Age” (2003) · 1,330 citations
- Ethan Kross, Professor of Psychology and Management/Organizations h-index 58
Emotion; Social Psychology
Notable: “An fMRI-Based Neurologic Signature of Physical Pain” (2013) · 1,657 citations
- Christopher Monk, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience h-index 56
Affective Emotional; Adolescence; Developmental Psychology; Neuroscience
Notable: “Toward discovery science of human brain function” (2010) · 3,096 citations
- Luke Hyde, Professor of Psychology h-index 55
Clinical Science; Psychopathology; Developmental Psychopathology; Neuroscience
Notable: “Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study” (2019) · 1,156 citations
- L. Monique Ward, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology h-index 54
Sex Sexuality; Gender; Race Ethnicity; Adolescence; Developmental Psychology
Notable: “The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.” (2008) · 2,035 citations
- Vonnie C. McLoyd, Ewart A. C. Thomas Collegiate Professor of Psychology h-index 50
Developmental Psychology
Notable: “Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development.” (1998) · 3,706 citations
- Felix Warneken, Developmental Area Chair; Professor of Psychology h-index 50
Culture; Cognition; Social; Animal Behavior Comparative; Developmental Psychology
Notable: “Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees” (2006) · 1,636 citations
- Nansook Park, Professor of Psychology; Director, Michigan Positive Psychology Center h-index 50
Culture; Personality & Social Contexts; Motivation; Emotion
Notable: “Benzodiazepine Use in the United States” (2014) · 779 citations
- Cindy Lustig, Professor of Psychology; Director of the STAR Scholars Program h-index 48
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Notable: “Disruption of Large-Scale Brain Systems in Advanced Aging” (2007) · 1,651 citations
- Laura Zahodne, Professor of Psychology h-index 48
Clinical Science; Race Ethnicity; Cognition; Neuroscience
Notable: “Olfactory deficits predict cognitive decline and Alzheimer dementia in an urban community” (2014) · 344 citations
- Robert Sellers, James S. Jackson Distinguished University Professor of Psychology h-index 47
Personality & Social Contexts
Notable: “Multidimensional Model of Racial Identity: A Reconceptualization of African American Racial Identity” (1998) · 1,732 citations
- Jun Zhang, Professor of Psychology; Professor of Statistics (courtesy) h-index 46
Computational modeling; Cognition; Decision-making; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “Treatment of cerebral ischemia by disrupting ischemia-induced interaction of nNOS with PSD-95” (2010) · 415 citations
- Sheryl Olson, Professor of Psychology h-index 44
Clinical Science; Developmental Psychopathology
Notable: “Developmental foundations of externalizing problems in young children: The role of effortful control” (2005) · 500 citations
- Priti Shah, Psychology Department Chair; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology h-index 43
Education and Psychology; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
Notable: “The separability of working memory resources for spatial thinking and language processing: An individual differences approach.” (1996) · 894 citations
- Daniel Keating, Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics h-index 42
Cognition; Adolescence; Developmental Psychology; Neuroscience
Notable: “Assessment of Children's Intelligence” (1975) · 546 citations
- Colleen Seifert, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology h-index 41
Creativity; Cognition; Memory; Problem-solving
Notable: “Misinformation and Its Correction” (2012) · 2,841 citations
- Daniel Weissman, Professor of Psychology, Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience h-index 41
Attention; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience
Notable: “The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention” (2006) · 1,606 citations
- Thad Polk, Samuel D. Epstein Collegiate Professor of Psychology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor h-index 39
Aging; Computational modeling; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroimaging
Notable: “Aging reduces neural specialization in ventral visual cortex” (2004) · 674 citations
- Richard Lewis, John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science h-index 37
Computational modeling; Language; Cognition; Decision-making
Notable: “An Activation‐Based Model of Sentence Processing as Skilled Memory Retrieval” (2005) · 1,046 citations
- Isis Settles, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Psychology h-index 36
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Notable: “The Climate for Women in Academic Science: The Good, the Bad, and the Changeable” (2006) · 417 citations
- Deborah Rivas-Drake, Professor of Psychology; Stephanie J. Rowley Collegiate Professor of Education h-index 34
Culture; Education and Psychology; Race Ethnicity; Adolescence; Developmental Psychology
Notable: “Ethnic and Racial Identity During Adolescence and Into Young Adulthood: An Integrated Conceptualization” (2014) · 1,206 citations
- Alexandra Rosati, Associate Professor of Psychology and Anthropology h-index 33
Cognition; Evolution; Animal Behavior Comparative; Decision-making; Biopsychology
Notable: “The Evolutionary Origins of Human Patience: Temporal Preferences in Chimpanzees, Bonobos, and Human Adults” (2007) · 362 citations
- Kevin Miller, Professor of Psychology and Education h-index 32
Cognition; Learning; Developmental Psychology
Notable: “Preschool Origins of Cross-National Differences in Mathematical Competence: The Role of Number-Naming Systems” (1995) · 346 citations
- Natalie Tronson, Professor of Psychology h-index 31
Biopsychology
Notable: “Molecular mechanisms of memory reconsolidation” (2007) · 784 citations
- Fiona Lee, Personality and Social Contexts Area Chair; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Psychology h-index 30
Culture; Applied; Personality & Social Contexts; Organizations
Notable: “Negotiating Biculturalism” (2002) · 1,027 citations
- Ioulia Kovelman, Visiting Professor h-index 30
Developmental Psychology
Notable: “Evaluating the validity of volume-based and surface-based brain image registration for developmental cognitive neuroscience studies in children 4 to 11years of age” (2010) · 296 citations
- Arnold Ho, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 28
Race Ethnicity; Social Psychology
Notable: “The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale.” (2015) · 1,129 citations
- Justin Jager, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 27
Developmental Psychology; Adolescence; Quantitative Methods
Notable: “II. MORE THAN JUST CONVENIENT: THE SCIENTIFIC MERITS OF HOMOGENEOUS CONVENIENCE SAMPLES” (2017) · 1,028 citations
- Denise Sekaquaptewa, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology h-index 25
Gender; Race Ethnicity; Social Psychology; Social Justice
Notable: “Solo status, stereotype threat, and performance expectancies: Their effects on women’s performance” (2003) · 379 citations
- Stephanie D. Preston, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Area Chair; Professor of Psychology h-index 24
Applied; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience; Decision-making; Affective Emotional; Neuroscience
Notable: “Empathy: Its ultimate and proximate bases” (2002) · 4,102 citations
- Sara McClelland, Gender and Feminist Psychology Area Chair; Professor of Psychology & Women's and Gender Studies h-index 24
Gender & Feminist Psychology; Sex Sexuality; Race Ethnicity
Notable: “Sexuality Education and Desire: Still Missing after All These Years” (2006) · 658 citations
- Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 24
Clinical Science; Sex Sexuality; Race Ethnicity; Psychopathology
Notable: “Transdiagnostic factors of psychopathology and substance use disorders: a review” (2015) · 195 citations
- Ramaswami Mahalingam, Professor of Psychology h-index 23
Personality & Social Contexts; Education and Psychology
Notable: “Essentialism, Culture, and Power: Representations of Social Class” (2003) · 183 citations
- Leah Richmond-Rakerd, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 21
Clinical Science; Psychopathology; Addiction; Developmental Psychopathology
Notable: “Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Comorbidities Across 4 Decades Among Participants in the Dunedin Birth Cohort Study” (2020) · 645 citations
- Mari Kira, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 19
Culture; Applied; Personality & Social Contexts; Organizations
Notable: “Crafting sustainable work: development of personal resources” (2010) · 169 citations
- Annelise Madison, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 19
Aging; Clinical Science; Psychopathology
Notable: “Stress, depression, diet, and the gut microbiota: human–bacteria interactions at the core of psychoneuroimmunology and nutrition” (2019) · 342 citations
- Donna Nagata, Professor of Psychology h-index 18
Culture; Clinical Science; Race Ethnicity
Notable: “The Japanese American wartime incarceration: Examining the scope of racial trauma.” (2019) · 106 citations
- Taraz Lee, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 14
Motor movement skills; Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience; Neuroscience
Notable: “The Dynamic Nature of Top-Down Signals Originating from Prefrontal Cortex: A Combined fMRI–TMS Study” (2012) · 167 citations
- Gideon Rothschild, Associate Professor of Psychology h-index 13
Brain & Behavior; Perception; Memory; Learning; Neuroscience; Biopsychology
Notable: “VTA dopaminergic neurons regulate ethologically relevant sleep–wake behaviors” (2016) · 584 citations
- Catherine Thomas, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies h-index 12
Culture; Intervention; Organizations; Motivation; Social Psychology
Notable: “Investigations of HPA function and the enduring consequences of stressors in adolescence in animal models” (2009) · 276 citations
- Andras Molnar, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 8
Communication; Cognition; Decision-making
Notable: “SMARTRIQS: A Simple Method Allowing Real-Time Respondent Interaction in Qualtrics Surveys” (2019) · 111 citations
- Kristina O. Smiley, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Brain & Behavior; Biopsychology; Neuroscience; Hormones Endocrinology; Animal Behavior Comparative
Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.