40 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Richard Mayer, Distinguished Professor h-index 153
Notable: “Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning” (2003) · 4,079 citations
- Jonathan Schooler, Distinguished Professor h-index 83
Notable: “The restless mind.” (2006) · 2,076 citations
- Leda Cosmides, Distinguished Professor h-index 78
Notable: “The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task” (1989) · 2,486 citations
- Mary Hegarty, Distinguished Professor & Chair h-index 76
Notable: “Development of a self-report measure of environmental spatial ability” (2002) · 1,018 citations
- Miguel Eckstein, Distinguished Professor h-index 65
Notable: “DeepPath: A Reinforcement Learning Method for Knowledge Graph Reasoning” (2017) · 773 citations
- Shelly Gable, Professor h-index 56
Notable: “Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness” (2000) · 2,048 citations
- Nancy Collins, Professor and Vice Chair h-index 51
Notable: “Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples.” (1990) · 3,526 citations
- David Sherman, Professor h-index 49
Notable: “Culture and social support.” (2008) · 1,223 citations
- Michael Beyeler, Associate Professor h-index 47
Notable: “Spatial covert attention increases contrast sensitivity across the CSF: support for signal enhancement” (2000) · 486 citations
- Tod Kippin, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Histone Deacetylase 5 Epigenetically Controls Behavioral Adaptations to Chronic Emotional Stimuli” (2007) · 598 citations
- Karen Szumlinski, Professor h-index 45
Notable: “Homer Proteins Regulate Sensitivity to Cocaine” (2004) · 223 citations
- Michael Miller, Professor h-index 38
Notable: “Controllability of structural brain networks” (2015) · 974 citations
- Rene Weber, Professor h-index 36
Notable: “Does Playing Violent Video Games Induce Aggression? Empirical Evidence of a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study” (2005) · 259 citations
- Barry Giesbrecht, Professor h-index 33
Notable: “Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention” (2003) · 400 citations
- Heejung Kim, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Deviance or uniqueness, harmony or conformity? A cultural analysis.” (1999) · 1,157 citations
- James Roney, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Hormonal predictors of sexual motivation in natural menstrual cycles” (2013) · 354 citations
- Alan Fridlund, Professor h-index 29
Notable: “Guidelines for Human Electromyographic Research” (1986) · 1,750 citations
- Emily Jacobs, Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Estrogen Shapes Dopamine-Dependent Cognitive Processes: Implications for Women's Health” (2011) · 387 citations
- Hongbo Yu, Associate Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Tuned Responses of Astrocytes and Their Influence on Hemodynamic Signals in the Visual Cortex” (2008) · 634 citations
- Daniel Conroy-Beam, Associate Professor h-index 26
Notable: “Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries” (2019) · 1,775 citations
- Thomas Sprague, Assistant Professor h-index 21
Notable: “Parietal and Frontal Cortex Encode Stimulus-Specific Mnemonic Representations during Visual Working Memory” (2015) · 454 citations
- Zoe Liberman, Associate Professor h-index 20
Notable: “The Exposure Advantage” (2015) · 300 citations
- Regina Lapate, Assistant Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Purpose in Life Predicts Better Emotional Recovery from Negative Stimuli” (2013) · 247 citations
- Skirmantas Janusonis, Professor h-index 18
Notable: “Religion priming differentially increases prosocial behavior among variants of the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) gene” (2011) · 169 citations
- Michael Goard, Associate Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Basal forebrain activation enhances cortical coding of natural scenes” (2009) · 589 citations
- Tamsin German, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Representational and executive selection resources in ‘theory of mind’: Evidence from compromised belief-desire reasoning in old age” (2005) · 259 citations
- Annie E. Wertz, Assistant Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Selective Social Learning of Plant Edibility in 6- and 18-Month-Old Infants” (2014) · 130 citations
- Nils Karl Reimer, Assistant Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Intergroup Contact and Social Change” (2016) · 226 citations
- David Pietraszewski, Assistant Professor h-index 15
Notable: “The Content of Our Cooperation, Not the Color of Our Skin: An Alliance Detection System Regulates Categorization by Coalition and Race, but Not Sex” (2014) · 180 citations
- Kyle Ratner, Associate Professor h-index 14
Notable: “Reduced hedonic capacity in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a probabilistic reward task” (2008) · 797 citations
- Brandon Woo, Assistant Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Social evaluation of intentional, truly accidental, and negligently accidental helpers and harmers by 10-month-old infants” (2017) · 170 citations
- Ikuko Smith, Assistant Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Dendritic spikes enhance stimulus selectivity in cortical neurons in vivo” (2013) · 456 citations
- Vanessa Woods, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Tolerance Allows Bonobos to Outperform Chimpanzees on a Cooperative Task” (2007) · 522 citations
- Stan Klein, Professor h-index 6
Notable: “The feeling of personal ownership of one’s mental states: A conceptual argument and empirical evidence for an essential, but underappreciated, mechanism of mind.” (2015) · 25 citations
- Laura Simone Lewis, Assistant Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades” (2023) · 50 citations
- Nicole Alea Albada, Associate Teaching Professor h-index 1
Notable: “Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: An Artificial Intelligence Contribution Statement for Research Methods Writing Assignments” (2024) · 5 citations
- Andy Alexander, Assistant Professor
- Dan Montello, Affiliated Professor
- Ron Keiflin, Assistant Professor
- Samantha Scudder, Assistant Teaching Professor
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.