Psychology, General at University of California, San Diego

32 faculty and 40 courses in Psychology, General at University of California, San Diego.

Faculty

• Sandra Brown, Distinguished Professor h-index 92
  Notable: “Expectations of reinforcement from alcohol: Their domain and relation to drinking patterns.” (1980) · 933 citations
• Michael McCullough, Professor h-index 87
  Notable: “Handbook of Religion and Health” (2004) · 3,277 citations
• John Wixted, Distinguished Professor h-index 76
  Notable: “Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis.” (2006) · 1,817 citations
• Adam Aron, Professor h-index 66
  Notable: “Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex” (2004) · 3,217 citations
• John Serences, Professor and Department Chair h-index 58
  Notable: “Stimulus-Specific Delay Activity in Human Primary Visual Cortex” (2009) · 912 citations
• Piotr Winkielman, Professor h-index 52
  Notable: “Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?” (2004) · 2,794 citations
• David Barner, Professor h-index 50
  Notable: “Accessing the unsaid: The role of scalar alternatives in children’s pragmatic inference” (2010) · 415 citations
• Gail Heyman, Professor h-index 48
  Notable: “Carrot-Eaters and Creature-Believers: The Effects of Lexicalization on Children's Inferences About Social Categories” (1999) · 346 citations
• Karen Dobkins, Professor h-index 41
  Notable: “Recurrence Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study” (2011) · 1,449 citations
• Christine Harris, Professor h-index 40
  Notable: “Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition” (2009) · 1,507 citations
• Leslie Carver, Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Recurrence Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Baby Siblings Research Consortium Study” (2011) · 1,449 citations
• Stephan Anagnostaras, Associate Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Temporally Graded Retrograde Amnesia of Contextual Fear after Hippocampal Damage in Rats: Within-Subjects Examination” (1999) · 656 citations
• Victor Ferreira, Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Structural priming: A critical review.” (2008) · 1,047 citations
• Cory Miller, Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys” (2000) · 477 citations
• Timothy Brady, Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Visual long-term memory has a massive storage capacity for object details” (2008) · 1,161 citations
• Timothy Gentner, Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds” (2006) · 660 citations
• Timothy Rickard, Professor h-index 30
  Notable: “The calculating brain: an fMRI study” (2000) · 348 citations
• Craig McKenzie, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “Recommendations Implicit in Policy Defaults” (2006) · 514 citations
• Caren Walker, Associate Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “Toddlers Infer Higher-Order Relational Principles in Causal Learning” (2013) · 148 citations
• Christina Gremel, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Orbitofrontal and striatal circuits dynamically encode the shift between goal-directed and habitual actions” (2013) · 649 citations
• Bria Long, Assistant Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “Data availability, reusability, and analytic reproducibility: evaluating the impact of a mandatory open data policy at the journal Cognition” (2018) · 349 citations
• Lindsey Powell, Assistant Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “It's the Thought That Counts” (2006) · 816 citations
• Adena Schachner, Associate Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “Music as a coevolved system for social bonding” (2020) · 499 citations
• Eshin Jolly, Assistant Professor h-index 18
  Notable: “Social-Cognitive Deficits in Normal Aging” (2012) · 210 citations
• Nadia Brashier, Assistant Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction” (2022) · 1,275 citations
• Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Molecular, spatial, and functional single-cell profiling of the hypothalamic preoptic region” (2018) · 1,515 citations
• Janna Dickenson, Assistant Teaching Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Neural correlates of focused attention during a brief mindfulness induction” (2012) · 228 citations
• Celeste Pilegard, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Improving academic learning from computer-based narrative games” (2015) · 51 citations
• Natalia Vélez, Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “Eye-Tracking Devices for Virtual and Augmented Reality Metaverse Environments and Their Compatibility with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation” (2024) · 15 citations
• Emma Geller, Teaching Professor h-index 2
  Notable: “Conceptual explanations and understanding fraction comparisons” (2017) · 37 citations
• E. Nathaniel Chapman, Assistant Teaching Professor
• Nicholas Oesch, Associate Research Scientist

Courses

• Psychology PSYC 1
• General Psychology: Biological Foundations PSYC 2
• General Psychology: Cognitive Foundations PSYC 3
• General Psychology: Behavioral Foundations PSYC 4
• General Psychology: Social Foundations PSYC 6
• General Psychology: Developmental Foundations PSYC 7
• Psychosocial Foundations of the Climate Crisis PSYC 42
• Introduction to Statistics PSYC 60
• Research Methods in Psychology PSYC 70
• Laboratory in Psychological Research Methods PSYC 71
• Laboratory in Brain, Behavior, and Evolution PSYC 81
• Clinical Psychology PSYC 100
• Developmental Psychology PSYC 101
• Sensory Neuroscience PSYC 102
• Social Psychology PSYC 104
• Cognitive Psychology PSYC 105
• Behavioral Neuroscience PSYC 106
• Cognitive Neuroscience PSYC 108
• Juniors Honors Research Seminars PSYC 110
• Electroencephalogram (EEG) Lab PSYC 113
• Psychophysiological Perspectives on the Social Mind Laboratory PSYC 114
• Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology I PSYC 115A
• Clinical Assessment and Treatment PSYC 124
• Clinical Neuropsychology PSYC 125
• Practicum in Community Mental Health Care PSYC 126
• Scientific Racism: Genetics, Intelligence, and Race PSYC 131
• Hormones and Behavior PSYC 132
• Circadian Rhythms—Biological Clocks PSYC 133
• Eating Disorders PSYC 134
• Belief in Weird Things PSYC 135
• Cognitive Development PSYC 136
• Social Cognition PSYC 137
• Sound and Music Perception PSYC 138
• Evolution and Human Nature PSYC 141
• Psychology of Consciousness PSYC 142
• Control and Analysis of Human Behavior PSYC 143
• Memory and Amnesia PSYC 144
• Psychology of Language PSYC 145
• Language and Conceptual Development PSYC 146
• Gender PSYC 147

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. 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.