80 faculty and 6 courses in Psychology, General at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Faculty h-index 145
Notable: “An improved framework for confound regression and filtering for control of motion artifact in the preprocessing of resting-state functional connectivity data” (2012) · 2,055 citations
- Michael R. Irwin, Faculty h-index 120
Notable: “A Vaccine to Prevent Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia in Older Adults” (2005) · 2,413 citations
- Michelle Craske, Faculty h-index 120
Notable: “Maximizing exposure therapy: An inhibitory learning approach” (2014) · 2,291 citations
- Peter M. Bentler, Faculty h-index 103
Notable: “Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives” (1999) · 105,586 citations
- Michael Fanselow, Faculty h-index 102
Notable: “Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures?” (2010) · 3,378 citations
- Constance Hammen, Faculty h-index 102
Notable: “Stress and Depression” (2004) · 2,922 citations
- Matthew Lieberman, Faculty h-index 99
Notable: “Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion” (2003) · 3,800 citations
- Carrie Bearden, Faculty h-index 87
Notable: “The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data” (2014) · 877 citations
- Keith Holyoak, Faculty h-index 86
Notable: “Schema induction and analogical transfer” (1983) · 2,937 citations
- Thomas N. Bradbury, Faculty h-index 79
Notable: “The longitudinal course of marital quality and stability: A review of theory, method, and research.” (1995) · 2,608 citations
- Andrew J. Fuligni, Faculty h-index 78
Es on the interaction between sociocultural experiences and biobehavioral development among adolescents from diverse ethnic, immigrant, and economic backgrounds, with a current focus on youth’s prosocial behavior, contributions to the
Notable: “Attitudes toward Family Obligations among American Adolescents with Asian, Latin American, and European Backgrounds” (1999) · 984 citations
- Bruce Chorpita, Faculty h-index 77
Notable: “Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: a revised child anxiety and depression scale” (2000) · 1,968 citations
- Naomi Eisenberger, Faculty h-index 77
Notable: “Does Rejection Hurt? An fMRI Study of Social Exclusion” (2003) · 3,800 citations
- Robert A. Bjork, Faculty h-index 76
Es on human learning and memory and on the implications of the science of learning for instruction and training. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as Editor of
Notable: “Learning Styles” (2008) · 2,053 citations
- Julienne Bower, Faculty h-index 74
Es broadly on mind-body interactions among individuals confronting stressful life events, particularly diagnosis with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer. One area of her research examines how positive psychological factors, such as b
Notable: “Cancer-related fatigue—mechanisms, risk factors, and treatments” (2014) · 1,608 citations
- Patricia M. Greenfield, Faculty h-index 72
In the relationship between social change, culture, and human development. I have studied three generations of child development and socialization in a Maya community in Chiapas, Mexico as the community experienced a radical shift in the
Notable: “Cultural Pathways Through Universal Development” (2002) · 983 citations
- Andrew Christensen, Faculty h-index 71
Notable: “Gender and social structure in the demand/withdraw pattern of marital conflict.” (1990) · 668 citations
- Benjamin Karney, Faculty h-index 67
Notable: “The longitudinal course of marital quality and stability: A review of theory, method, and research.” (1995) · 2,608 citations
- Barbara Knowlton, Faculty h-index 66
Notable: “The role of the basal ganglia in habit formation” (2006) · 2,396 citations
- Bruce Baker, Faculty h-index 57
Notable: “Parenting Stress and Child Behavior Problems: A Transactional Relationship Across Time” (2012) · 945 citations
- Scott Johnson, Faculty h-index 57
Notable: “Visual statistical learning in infancy: evidence for a domain general learning mechanism” (2002) · 1,086 citations
- Jaana Juvonen, Faculty h-index 55
Notable: “Extending the School Grounds?—Bullying Experiences in Cyberspace” (2008) · 1,400 citations
- Craig Enders, Faculty h-index 53
Notable: “The Relative Performance of Full Information Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Missing Data in Structural Equation Models” (2001) · 4,886 citations
- Adriana Galvan, Faculty h-index 52
Notable: “The adolescent brain” (2008) · 1,768 citations
- Craig Fox, Faculty h-index 52
Notable: “The Neural Basis of Loss Aversion in Decision-Making Under Risk” (2007) · 1,761 citations
- Anna S. Lau, Faculty h-index 52
Notable: “Barriers to Providing Effective Mental Health Services to Asian Americans” (2001) · 645 citations
- Paul R. Abramson, Faculty h-index 50
Notable: “Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress” (2001) · 958 citations
- Martie Haselton, Faculty h-index 49
Notable: “Error management theory: A new perspective on biases in cross-sex mind reading.” (2000) · 1,125 citations
- Tiffany Ho, Faculty h-index 49
Notable: “ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries” (2020) · 687 citations
- Dean Buonomano, Faculty h-index 47
Notable: “CORTICAL PLASTICITY: From Synapses to Maps” (1998) · 2,099 citations
- Alan Castel, Faculty h-index 47
Focus on human memory, attention and cognitive aging. In a world where we are often overwhelmed with information, my research focuses on how people can selectively remember important information. This includes the strategic control over mem
Notable: “Perceiving numbers causes spatial shifts of attention” (2003) · 660 citations
- Denise A. Chavira, Faculty h-index 45
Latino mental health, anxiety, and treatment development. My research focuses on examining the effectiveness of empirically supported interventions for anxiety disorders in diverse groups, including Latinos, low-income, and rural po
Notable: “Mobilizing Community Health Workers to Address Mental Health Disparities for Underserved Populations: A Systematic Review” (2017) · 454 citations
- Howard S. Adelman, Faculty h-index 43
Notable: “On Sustainability of Project Innovations as Systemic Change” (2003) · 198 citations
- Donald G. MacKay, Faculty h-index 42
Notable: “On the tip of the tongue: What causes word finding failures in young and older adults?” (1991) · 975 citations
- Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, Faculty h-index 42
Notable: “Remembering can cause forgetting: Retrieval dynamics in long-term memory.” (1994) · 1,459 citations
- Steve S. Lee, Faculty h-index 37
Notable: “Prospective association of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and substance use and abuse/dependence: A meta-analytic review” (2011) · 880 citations
- James Bisley, Faculty h-index 36
Notable: “Attention, Intention, and Priority in the Parietal Lobe” (2010) · 1,069 citations
- Ian Krajbich, Faculty h-index 35
Notable: “Visual fixations and the computation and comparison of value in simple choice” (2010) · 1,470 citations
- Li Cai, Faculty h-index 35
Notable: “The Peer Context of Adolescent Substance Use: Findings from Social Network Analysis” (2006) · 430 citations
- Noah Goldstein, Faculty h-index 34
Notable: “Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity” (2004) · 5,936 citations
- Kerri Johnson, Faculty h-index 32
Notable: “Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence” (2003) · 1,225 citations
- H. Tad Blair, Faculty h-index 32
Notable: “Synaptic Plasticity in the Lateral Amygdala: A Cellular Hypothesis of Fear Conditioning” (2001) · 621 citations
- Hal Hershfield, Faculty h-index 32
Notable: “Increasing Saving Behavior Through Age-Progressed Renderings of the Future Self” (2011) · 687 citations
- Bridget Callaghan, Faculty h-index 32
Notable: “The Stress Acceleration Hypothesis: effects of early-life adversity on emotion circuits and behavior” (2015) · 597 citations
- Franklin B. Krasne, Faculty h-index 31
Notable: “The Organization of Escape Behaviour in the Crayfish” (1972) · 440 citations
- Aaron P. Blaisdell, Faculty h-index 31
Notable: “Causal Reasoning in Rats” (2006) · 286 citations
- Patricia Cheng, Faculty h-index 30
Center on the origin of mental representations. How do we humans come to understand the world and its workings, and our place in it? I divide this issue into two related parts. The first is causal induction. How do people come to know that
Notable: “Pragmatic reasoning schemas” (1985) · 1,467 citations
- Alicia Izquierdo, Faculty h-index 30
Center on understanding the brain mechanisms of flexible reinforcement learning and value-based decisions. Specifically, this involves exploring the impact of costs and determining the relative value of options. To that end, my lab studies
Notable: “The neural basis of reversal learning: An updated perspective” (2016) · 707 citations
- R. Edward Geiselman, Faculty h-index 30
Es on investigative interviewing of witnesses and victims of crime (the Cognitive Interview, CI), use of force investigations, and factors affecting eyewitness recollections. Dr. Geiselman currently provides 2-day host-site instruction upon
Notable: “Field test of the cognitive interview: Enhancing the recollection of actual victims and witnesses of crime.” (1989) · 365 citations
- Yuen J. Huo, Faculty h-index 29
Notable: “Superordinate Identification, Subgroup Identification, and Justice Concerns: Is Separatism the Problem; Is Assimilation the Answer?” (1996) · 430 citations
- Idan Blank, Faculty h-index 29
Notable: “The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing” (2021) · 528 citations
- Hongjing Lu, Faculty h-index 28
Notable: “Emergent analogical reasoning in large language models” (2023) · 378 citations
- Falk Lieder, Faculty h-index 27
Notable: “Toward a Rational and Mechanistic Account of Mental Effort” (2017) · 1,144 citations
- Shulamite Green, Faculty h-index 27
Notable: “Parenting Stress and Child Behavior Problems: A Transactional Relationship Across Time” (2012) · 945 citations
- Richard LeBeau, Faculty h-index 25
In the development, implementation, and dissemination of scalable, evidence-based interventions for mood and anxiety disorders. Specifically, I am interested in interventions that are affirmative, acceptable, and effective for individua
Notable: “The role of associative fear and avoidance learning in anxiety disorders: Gaps and directions for future research” (2018) · 310 citations
- Zili Liu, Faculty h-index 24
. I am interested in nearly all aspects of visual perception. These include three-dimensional (3D) motion perception, 3D shape perception, perceptual learning, and computational modeling. Recently, our lab has expanded to study action perce
Notable: “Z-scheme Bi2WO6/CuBi2O4 heterojunction mediated by interfacial electric field for efficient visible-light photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline” (2019) · 343 citations
- Bonnie Goff, Faculty h-index 23
Notable: “Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation” (2013) · 894 citations
- David Clewett, Faculty h-index 23
Notable: “Norepinephrine ignites local hotspots of neuronal excitation: How arousal amplifies selectivity in perception and memory” (2015) · 727 citations
- Jan Blacher, Faculty h-index 23
Notable: “Bullying of youth with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, or typical development: Victim and parent perspectives” (2014) · 174 citations
- Karen Givvin, Faculty h-index 22
Es on teaching and learning. Specifically, I’m interested in how students learn math and how teachers can best help them do so. I’ve studied populations of students from preschool through college. Through the Psychology Department I teach c
Notable: “Teachers’ beliefs and practices related to mathematics instruction” (2001) · 818 citations
- Jaimie Arona Krems, Faculty h-index 20
Notable: “Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence” (2018) · 177 citations
- William Grisham, Faculty h-index 20
Notable: “Neural, not gonadal, origin of brain sex differences in a gynandromorphic finch” (2003) · 257 citations
- Stephanie Leal, Faculty h-index 19
Focus on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying episodic memory processing and how these mechanisms are altered in aging and disease states. She develops and utilizes sensitive cognitive tasks, advanced neuroimaging techniques, and trans
Notable: “Integrating new findings and examining clinical applications of pattern separation” (2018) · 222 citations
- Jaime Castrellon, Faculty h-index 16
Notable: “Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams” (2020) · 1,196 citations
- Yi Feng, Faculty h-index 13
Structural equation modeling (SEM), latent growth models, random variability modeling, power analysis/sample size determination, and causal graphical models. I currently teach a graduate-level course on structural equation modeling (Psyc
Notable: “High- and low-bar squatting techniques during weight-training” (1996) · 150 citations
- Elisheva Gross, Faculty h-index 9
Notable: “Extending the School Grounds?—Bullying Experiences in Cyberspace” (2008) · 1,400 citations
- Jesse Harris, Faculty h-index 9
In psycholinguistics , the psychology of language, with the broad aim of developing and testing working cognitive models of human sentence processing that respect linguistic, cognitive, and general contextual constraints. My experimental
Notable: “Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives” (2009) · 251 citations
- Gerald M. Goodman, Faculty h-index 8
Notable: “Psychology and self-help groups: Predictions on a partnership.” (1989) · 158 citations
- Amber Ankowski, Faculty h-index 3
Notable: “At the same time or apart in time? The role of presentation timing and retrieval dynamics in generalization.” (2011) · 83 citations
- Andrew Frane, Faculty
Es on musical and auditory perception. He also studies statistical methodology. He has taught courses in psychology, research methods, statistics, and computer programming. His published works are listed at his website: avfrane.com 1285 Fra
- Avi Adhikari, Faculty
- Carlos V. Grijalva, Faculty
- Chris Evans, Faculty
Of Dr. Evans are aligned closely with the goals of CSORDA. Recent interests include the modulation of striatal function following self-administration of opioid drugs. We are especially interested in the cellular, behavioral and transcriptom
- Eric W. Holman, Faculty
- Erie Boorman, Faculty
- Han Du, Faculty
- Iris Firstenberg, Faculty
- Jackson Beatty, Faculty
- Phil Kellman, Faculty
- Steve Bennoun, Faculty
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.