40 faculty and 39 courses in Psychology, General at University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Thomas F Pettigrew, Professor Emeritus h-index 73
Notable: “A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory.” (2006) · 8,760 citations
- Dominic W Massaro, Professor Emeritus h-index 70
Notable: “Communication and Persuasion: Central and Peripheral Routes to Attitude Change” (1988) · 1,027 citations
- Barbara Rogoff, UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor h-index 66
Notable: “Cultural Ways of Learning: Individual Traits or Repertoires of Practice” (2003) · 2,135 citations
- Elliot Aronson, Professor Emeritus h-index 63
Notable: “The effect of severity of initiation on liking for a group.” (1959) · 1,297 citations
- Campbell Leaper, Distinguished Professor h-index 50
Notable: “Moderators of gender effects on parents' talk to their children: A meta-analysis.” (1998) · 630 citations
- Phillip L Hammack, Professor h-index 40
Notable: “Narrative and the Cultural Psychology of Identity” (2008) · 903 citations
- Faye J Crosby, Professor h-index 39
Notable: “A model of egoistical relative deprivation.” (1976) · 1,419 citations
- Craig W Haney, Distinguished Professor h-index 37
Notable: “Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison.” (1973) · 846 citations
- Maureen Callanan, Distinguished Professor Emerita h-index 36
Notable: “Parents Explain More Often to Boys Than to Girls During Shared Scientific Thinking” (2001) · 479 citations
- Nameera N Akhtar, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions” (1998) · 730 citations
- Eileen Zurbriggen, Distinguished Professor h-index 34
Notable: “The Role of Efficacy and Identity in Science Career Commitment Among Underrepresented Minority Students” (2011) · 731 citations
- Catherine R Cooper, Emerita Professor of Psychology h-index 32
Notable: “Individuation in Family Relationships” (2009) · 900 citations
- Margarita Azmitia, Distinguished Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Peer Interaction and Problem Solving: When Are Two Heads Better Than One?” (1988) · 375 citations
- Barry S Mclaughlin, Professor Emeritus h-index 30
Notable: “Theories of Second-Language Learning” (1990) · 958 citations
- Jean E Fox Tree, Distinguished Professor h-index 29
Notable: “The Effects of False Starts and Repetitions on the Processing of Subsequent Words in Spontaneous Speech” (1995) · 395 citations
- Martin M Chemers, Professor Emeritus h-index 28
Notable: “Academic self-efficacy and first year college student performance and adjustment.” (2001) · 1,869 citations
- Anthony R Pratkanis, Emeritus Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Attitude Structure and Function.” (1990) · 1,309 citations
- Per F Gjerde, Professor Emeritus h-index 28
Notable: “International Preferences in Selecting Mates” (1990) · 736 citations
- Benjamin Storm, Professor h-index 28
Notable: “Forgetting as a consequence of retrieval: A meta-analytic review of retrieval-induced forgetting.” (2014) · 230 citations
- Avril Thorne, Professor Emerita h-index 27
Notable: “Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies.” (1976) · 2,302 citations
- Adriana Maria Manago, Associate Professor h-index 27
Notable: “Self-presentation and gender on MySpace” (2008) · 715 citations
- Heather E Bullock, Director, Center for Economic Justice and Action h-index 26
Notable: “Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality” (2006) · 416 citations
- Margaret L Wilson, Professor Emerita h-index 24
Notable: “Six views of embodied cognition” (2002) · 4,561 citations
- Shelly A Grabe, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “The role of the media in body image concerns among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies.” (2008) · 2,035 citations
- Regina D Langhout, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “Incivility in the workplace: Incidence and impact.” (2001) · 1,928 citations
- Rebecca G Covarrubias, Professor h-index 20
Notable: “Unseen disadvantage: How American universities' focus on independence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students.” (2012) · 1,278 citations
- Travis Seymour, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Virtually Perfect Time Sharing in Dual-Task Performance: Uncorking the Central Cognitive Bottleneck” (2001) · 522 citations
- Melanie J Mayer, Professor Emerita h-index 16
Notable: “Spatial frequency analysis of the visual environment: Anisotropy and the carpentered environment hypothesis” (1978) · 196 citations
- Alan H Kawamoto, Professor Emeritus h-index 15
Notable: “Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing: A Handbook of Models, Programs, and Exercises” (1989) · 739 citations
- Saskias Y Casanova, Associate Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Toxic Rain in Class” (2015) · 123 citations
- Su-hua Wang, Professor and Chair h-index 12
Notable: “Mental Spatial Transformations in 14- and 16-Month-Old Infants: Effects of Action and Observational Experience” (2013) · 98 citations
- Nicolas Davidenko, Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Instructional manipulation checks: Detecting satisficing to increase statistical power” (2009) · 313 citations
- Kim Cardilla, Senior Continuing Lecturer h-index 3
Notable: “Developmental implications of openness to experience in preschool children: Gender differences in young adulthood.” (2009) · 26 citations
- Bryan B Holbrook, Continuing Lecturer h-index 3
Notable: “Task demands and segment priming effects in the naming task.” (2018) · 12 citations
- Robert Majzler, Lecturer h-index 2
Notable: “We Need More Praxis: A Case for Praxis Assignments in Psychology Courses” (2022) · 4 citations
- Allison Land, Department Manager
- David M Harrington, Professor Emeritus
- Douglas G Bonett, Distinguished Professor of Psychology
- Kathryn G Silva-Chavez, Lecturer
- Katie Ritchey, Psychology Graduate Advisor
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.