Psychology
2011-12 General Catalog
273 Social Sciences 2 Building
(831) 459-2002
http://psych.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Nameera Akhtar
Cognitive and social cognitive processes in early language development, social-cognitive development in infants
Margarita Azmitia
How culture, peers, family, and schools provide a context for children’s and adolescents’ development. Special emphasis on how close relationships influence the educational pathways and identity development of ethnically and socioeconomically diverse populations
Heather E. Bullock
Poverty and economic inequality, welfare policy, feminist psychology, intersections of classism, racism, and sexism
Maureen A. Callanan
Cognitive and language development in the social context of family activities, development of word meanings and concepts, the construction of causal explanations in parent-child conversations
Catherine R. Cooper
Cultural perspectives on child and adolescent development; linkages among families, peers, schools, and work; issues of diversity, ethnicity, and gender in identity; research, practice, and policy in university outreach programs; linking qualitative and quantitative research
Faye J. Crosby
Gender, social identity, and social justice, especially affirmative action
Jean Fox Tree
Psycholinguistics: production and comprehension of spontaneous speech, disfluencies and discourse markers in speech, gestures, the effects of communicative technologies on how people communicate
Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
Language, thought, and embodiment; special emphasis on metaphor, pragmatics, and cognitive science
Craig W. Haney
Applications of social psychological principles to legal settings, assessment of the psychological effects of living and working in institutional environments, social contextual origins of violence, development of alternative legal and institutional forms
Aida Hurtado
Social identity, feminist theory, social psychology of education, survey methodology
Campbell Leaper
Social construction and socialization of gender in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; self-concept and social identity; language and social interaction; social relationships, gender bias and academic achievement; images of gender in the media; perceptions and consequences of sexism
Anthony R. Pratkanis
Social influence; attitude structure, function, and change
Barbara Rogoff
Human development in sociocultural activity; informal and formal arrangements for learning; adult/child and peer communication in families and schools in diverse cultural communities (especially in Guatemala Mexico and the U.S.); learning through observation and collaboration
Avril Thorne
Identity development in adolescence and young adulthood, especially in the context of conversations with family and friends; autobiographical memories; storytelling and the development of a sense of self; affordances of introverted and extraverted friends
Stephen J. Whittaker
Human Computer Interaction: The design, development and evaluation of computational tools to support memory and conversation
Eileen L. Zurbriggen
Connections between power and sex; sexual aggression and abuse; trauma; sexual decision-making; sexuality and media, the sexualization of girls and women; authoritarianism; feminist political psychology; motivation, especially power and affiliation-intimacy motives
Associate Professor
Alan H. Kawamoto
Empirical and computer simulation approaches to the study of perceptual and cognitive processes, reading, speech production
Regina D. Langhout
School-community-university collaboration; how schooling and neighborhood experiences are informed by social class, race, and gender; participatory action research
Travis L. Seymour
Role of immediate memory, consciousness, and executive control on the human performance of laboratory and applied tasks; cognitive processes amenable to strategic control and how they influence the way in which we maintain situational awareness; high levels of performance in complex and cognitive tasks
Su-hua Wang
Cognitive development, infant cognition, mental representations, theory of mind, how experience shapes early learning, parental child-rearing beliefs, cross-cultural perspectives on children’s learning
Aaronette White
Adult feminist-identity development; personality correlates of feminist activism; feminist masculinities studies; feminist perspectives on peace and violence; narrative psychology and adult personality change; Black feminist political psychology in the U.S. and abroad; critical psychology
Margaret L. Wilson
Embodied cognition, broadly defined. Specific interests include person perception, imitation, visual cognition, working memory, sign language, and the evolution of cognition
Assistant Professor
Shelly A. Grabe
Sexual objectification of women and women’s bodies as a pervasive global phenomenon played out in different ways across different cultures; how “embodied oppression” affects women’s psychological well-being and empowerment
Phillip L. Hammack
Cultural psychology, culture and identity, conflict and intergroup relations, political violence, political psychology, narrative, sexual identity
Lecturer
David A. “Tony” Hoffman
Child and adolescent development, developmental psychopathology, child and adolescent assessment, school psychology, pediatric psychology, chidren and war, children in high risk situations
Ralph H. Quinn
Clinical psychology, moral development, psychology and religion, existential-humanistic psychology
Donald T. Saposnek
Childhood psychopathology, special needs children, parenting and family interactions, socialization of children, children and divorce, family mediation, conflict resolution
Veronica K. Tonay
Clinical psychology, psychotherapy outcome, community mental health, dreams, personal narratives, creativity
Emeriti
Elliot Aronson, Emeritus
Bruce Bridgeman, Emeritus
Martin M. Chemers, Emeritus
G. William Domhoff, Emeritus
Per F. Gjerde, Emeritus
David M. Harrington, Emeritus
Michael Kahn , Emeritus
Pavel Machotka , Emeritus
Dominic W. Massaro, Emeritus
Melanie J. Mayer , Emeritus
Barry McLaughlin , Emeritus
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Emeritus
M. Brewster Smith, Emeritus
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Dane Archer, Professor Emeritus, Sociology
Sri Kurniawan, Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Human-computer interaction; human factors and ergonomics; accessibility; assistive technology; usability; empirical studies; user-centered design
Jerome Neu, Professor , Humanities
Philosophy of mind, emotions and culture, philosophy of law, psychoanalytic theory
Roland G. Tharp , Professor Emeritus , Education and Psychology
Revised: 8/13/12
