Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara

40 faculty and 0 courses in Psychology at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Faculty

• 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.