80 faculty and 6 courses in Psychology, General at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Katherine H. Karlsgodt, Faculty h-index 145
- Julienne Bower, Faculty h-index 130
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
- Michelle Craske, Faculty h-index 120
- Michael R. Irwin, Faculty h-index 112
- Peter M. Bentler, Faculty h-index 103
- Michael Fanselow, Faculty h-index 102
- Keith Holyoak, Faculty h-index 86
- Thomas N. Bradbury, Faculty h-index 79
- 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
- Bruce Chorpita, Faculty h-index 77
- Chris Evans, Faculty h-index 77
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
- 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
- Andrew Christensen, Faculty h-index 71
- Benjamin Karney, Faculty h-index 67
- Barbara Knowlton, Faculty h-index 66
- Carrie Bearden, Faculty h-index 66
- Bruce Baker, Faculty h-index 57
- Jaana Juvonen, Faculty h-index 55
- Anna S. Lau, Faculty h-index 52
- Tiffany Ho, Faculty h-index 49
- 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
- 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
- Yi Feng, Faculty h-index 42
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
- Donald G. MacKay, Faculty h-index 42
- Adriana Galvan, Faculty h-index 35
- Steve S. Lee, Faculty h-index 35
- H. Tad Blair, Faculty h-index 34
- Kerri Johnson, Faculty h-index 32
- Hal Hershfield, Faculty h-index 32
- Bridget Callaghan, Faculty h-index 32
- Franklin B. Krasne, Faculty h-index 31
- Aaron P. Blaisdell, Faculty h-index 31
- 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
- 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
- Li Cai, Faculty h-index 30
- Hongjing Lu, Faculty h-index 28
- Falk Lieder, Faculty h-index 27
- 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
- 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
- Bonnie Goff, Faculty h-index 23
- David Clewett, Faculty h-index 23
- Jan Blacher, Faculty h-index 23
- 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
- William Grisham, Faculty h-index 20
- 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
- Han Du, Faculty h-index 18
- 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
- Robert A. Bjork, Faculty h-index 8
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
- Andrew Frane, Faculty h-index 8
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
- Amber Ankowski, Faculty h-index 3
- Steve Bennoun, Faculty h-index 3
- Avi Adhikari, Faculty
- Carlos V. Grijalva, Faculty
- Constance Hammen, Faculty
- Craig Enders, Faculty
- Craig Fox, Faculty
- Dean Buonomano, Faculty
- Elisheva Gross, Faculty
- Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, Faculty
- Eric W. Holman, Faculty
- Erie Boorman, Faculty
- Gerald M. Goodman, Faculty
- Howard S. Adelman, Faculty
- Ian Krajbich, Faculty
- Idan Blank, Faculty
- Iris Firstenberg, Faculty
- Jackson Beatty, Faculty
- Jaime Castrellon, Faculty
- Jaimie Arona Krems, Faculty
- James Bisley, Faculty
- Martie Haselton, Faculty
- Matthew Lieberman, Faculty
- Naomi Eisenberger, Faculty
- Noah Goldstein, Faculty
- Paul R. Abramson, Faculty
- Phil Kellman, Faculty
- R. Edward Geiselman, Faculty
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
- Scott Johnson, Faculty
- Shulamite Green, Faculty
- Yuen J. Huo, 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 2026-07-01.