Psychology and behavior | Expert Topics

Jennifer Chatman

Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management

Organizational culture and performance, crisis leadership, group demography, norms in social groups.

Serena Chen

Professor of psychology

serchen@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Workplace psychology, organizational psychology, emotions, cognition.

Coye Cheshire

Associate Professor, School of Information

Social psychology, social networks, relationships, technology, computer-mediated environments.

Areas of expertise: Social psychology; criminal justice, including police "implicit bias" and police reform; political psychology; stereotyping; prejudice and discrimination. Author of "Suspect Race: Causes & Consequences of Racial Profiling" (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Stephen Hinshaw

Professor of psychology

Area of expertise: clinical science, behavioral and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence, ADHD, reactions to stress, assessment of disorders and knowing what's a "normal" reaction vs. an underlying disorder.

George Lakoff

Emeritus professor of linguistics and cognitive science, director of the Center for the Neural Mind and Society

lakoff@cogsci.berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: language and conceptual systems, research into metaphorical thought and how thought is embodied.

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Professor of psychology

rmd@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Cross-race relations, stigma, prejudice, education.

Mahesh Srinivasan

Assistant professor of psychology

srinivasan@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Child development, language development, cognition, cross-cultural psychology.

Frank C. Worrell

Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identities, achievement, race and schools, diversity, teacher effectiveness, African-American education.

Mental disorders

Maryam Abdullah

Parenting director, Greater Good Science Center

maryam.abdullah@berkeley.edu

Parenting, moral development, emotion, child development, prosocial behavior, parent-child relationships, autism, ADHD

Adrian Aguilera

Associate professor of social welfare

Mental health, psychiatric disorders, telehealth, mobile mental health services, healthcare for underserved populations, Spanish-speaking services

Sonia Bishop

Associate professor of psychology

sbishop@berkeley.edu

Anxiety, decision-making, emotional regulation

Ann Kring

Professor and chair of psychology

kring@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Mental illness, disorders, schizophrenia, emotion.

Sleep

Matthew Walker

Professor of psychology and neuroscience

mpwalker@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Sleep deprivation, impact of sleep on human health, cognition, behavior, neurodegeneration.

Child development

Maryam Abdullah

Parenting director, Greater Good Science Center

maryam.abdullah@berkeley.edu

Parenting, moral development, emotion, child development, prosocial behavior, parent-child relationships, autism, ADHD

Silvia Bunge

Professor of psychology and neuroscience

bunge@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Learning, cognition, brain development.

Linda Burton

Dean of the School of Social Welfare

lburton@berkeley.edu

Poverty and child welfare in rural and urban U.S., welfare reform, intergenerational family structures, social determinants of health, ethnography

Christine Carter

Sociologist and senior fellow at Greater Good Science Center

christine@christinecarter.com

Parenting, childhood and adolescence, wellness, stress management, life-work balance, positive psychology

Amy Eva

Associate parenting director, Greater Good Science Center

amyleva@berkeley.edu

Education, school climate, social-emotional learning, adolescent development, teacher education

Bruce Fuller

Professor of education and public policy in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: education and public policy, diverse forms of schooling such as charter schools, early learning, socialization of Latino children.

Alison Gopnik

Professor of psychology

gopnik@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Cognitive development and learning in young children.

Stephen Hinshaw

Professor of psychology

Celeste Kidd

Assistant professor of psychology

celestekidd@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Child development, attention, curiosity, learning, cognition.

Jeremy Adam Smith

Editor, Greater Good Science Center

jeremysmith@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Parenting, education, cross-race relations, segregation.

Mahesh Srinivasan

Assistant professor of psychology

srinivasan@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Child development, language development, cognition, cross-cultural psychology.

Frank C. Worrell

Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identities, achievement, race and schools, diversity, teacher effectiveness, African-American education.