Psychology Graduate Field Faculty Directory
Interests:- Hormonal influences on sex differences in physiologically-identified neurons
- Temporal and spectral coding of acoustic communication signals bythe nervous system
Interests:- Infant cognitive development and early word learning
- Interaction between cognition and early language learning
Interests:- Theories of intelligence
- Cognitive development
- Children and the law
- Children's testimonial competence
Interests:- Language evolution, acquisition and processing
- Neural network models of language and statistical learning
- ERP measures of statistical learning and language
- Cognitive Science/Neuroscience
Interests:- Active sensation and the construction of sensory representations
- Olfactory processing, generalization and perception, learning and memory
Interests:- Perception of motion, depth, and layout
- Event perception
- Art and psychology
- Structural and functional analyses of perceptual stimuli
Interests:- Neural basis of female bird song discrimination
- Interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory
- Behavior and brain evolution
Interests:- Accuracy and illusion in self- and social judgment
- Motivated reasoning and self-deception
- Behavior in economic games
- Accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony
Interests:- Computational theories and models of cognition
- Visual object and scene processing
- Language acquisition and processing
Interests:- Automaticity
- Social cognition
- Automatic evaluation
- Implicit mechanisms of goal pursuit
- The role of affect in judgment and decision-making
Interests:- Theories and models of sensory coding and visual processing
- Visual perception
- Relations between the structure of the natural environment andthe representation of that environment by sensory systems
Interests:- Structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, particularly the visual system and the cerebral cortex
Interests:- Everyday judgment and decision making
- Critical thinking and belief
- Egocentrism
- Optimism, pessimism, satisfaction, and regret
- Behavioral economics
Interests:- Social learning, with a focus on the development of speech and language
- Prelinguistic vocal development
- Early word learning
- Psychobiology of parental behavior
- Comparative approaches to the development and evolution of communication
Interests:- Human olfaction
- Human retronasal olfaction
Interests:- Work motivation
- Job attitudes
- Work performance
- Worker participation in management
- Employee stock ownership
- Leadership
- Organizational effectiveness
- Trade union effectiveness and leadership
Interests:- Human communication and language use
Interests:- Development and function of emotional bonds between adult sexual/romantic partners
- Human mating from an attachment theory and evolutionary perspective
Interests:- Photorefractive methods of determining focusing ability of infants and young children
- High-order aberrations of the eye
- Physiological optics in various species
- Alice M. Isen
- Professor of Psychology
S.C. Johnson Professor of Marketing
- Johnson Graduate School of Management
- ami4@cornell.edu
- 359 Sage Hall
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Interests:- Influence of affect on social interaction and thought processes
- Social cognitive neuroscience
- Consumer decision making
- Functioning in work or organizational settings
Interests:- Animal behavior and mechanisms of social behavior
- Olfactory communication, especially in mammals
- Social recognition and memory
- Sense of smell and the neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior
Interests:- Cognitive development
- Scientific reasoning
- Conceptual development
- Problem solving and reasoning
Interests:- Human perception and cognition
- Cognitive processes in music perception and memory
- Application of mathematical models to psychological data
- Computer music and computer modeling of music
Interests:- Improvements in sensory test methods applied to food analysis
- Effects of stimulus context on psychophysical judgments
- Studies of taste, smell and oral tactile perception
Interests:- Effects of nutrition on behavior
- Control of food intake and body weight
- Obesity
- Nutrition and health
Interests:- Neural basis of sensory information processing
Interests:- Language and mind, especially first language acquisition
- Linguistic theory of Universal Grammar
- Cognitive development
Interests:- Sleep and sleep deprivation
- Communication, with particular emphasis on the development, production and evaluation of media-based educational programs designed to promote cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral change
Interests:- Moral judgment
- Moral intuitions
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
- Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
Interests:- Experimental social psychology, especially causal attribution and interpersonal influence
- Evolutionary theory and social behavior
Interests:- Sexual differentiation of behavior
- Mate choice and social relationships in pair-bonding birds
Interests:- Risk and rationality
- False memory
Interests:- The development of same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities
- Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth
- Gender nonconformity
- Clinical psychology
- Personality and social development during adolescence
Interests:- The uses of narrative in clinical assessment
- Adolescent psychopathology
- Lifespan development
- Connections between the creative and therapeutic processes
- Psychodynamic approaches to literary texts
Interests:- Neural mediation of learning and memory
- Spatial navigation
- Instrumental learning
- Attention
Interests:- Determining the nature and underlying neural basis of developmental cognitive disorders
- Prenatal cocaine exposure
- Early lead exposure
- Transgenic models of developmental disorders
Interests:- Social cognition
- Attachment processes
- Self-regulation
- Unconscious cognition
