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    Interests:
  • Personality theory
  • Psi phenomena
  • Sexual orientation
  • Beliefs and attitudes

 
    Interests:
  • Social construction of gender and sexuality
  • Clinical psychology and psychopathology

 
    Interests:
  • Language acquisition and processing
  • Statistical learning
  • Neural network models of language and statistical learning
  • ERP measures of statistical learning and language
  • Language evolution
  • Genetics of language

 
    Interests:
  • Active sensation and the construction of sensory representations
  • Olfactory processing, generalization and perception, learning and memory
  • Computational and systems neurophysiology
  • Mouse behavioral phenotyping
  • Neural circuit structure and function

 
    Interests:
  • Art and psychology
  • Perception of cinema and pictures
  • Perception of motion, depth, and layout
  • Event perception
  • Structural and functional analyses of perceptual stimuli

 
    Interests:
  • Behavioral statistics
  • Mathematical models of brain evolution

 
    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
  • Accuracy and error in eyewitness testimony
  • Behavior in economic games

 
    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
  • Implicit ideology

 
    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
  • Effects of aging on human smell and taste

 
    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:
  • Computer music and computer modeling of music
  • Human perception and cognition
  • Cognitive processes in music perception and memory
  • Application of mathematical models to psychological data

 
    Interests:
  • Effects of nutrition on behavior
  • Control of food intake and body weight
  • Obesity
  • Nutrition and health

 
    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:
  • Memory (especially recall of life events)
  • Intelligence (especially IQ tests and their social significance)

 
    Interests:
  • Moral judgment
  • Moral intuitions
  • Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding
  • Influence of emotional states on thinking and deciding

 
    Interests:
  • Biopsychology of brain state change in sleep
  • Physiology of sensory, motor, and cognitive experience in dreams

 
    Interests:
  • Experimental social psychology, especially causal attribution and interpersonal influence
  • Evolutionary theory and social behavior

 
    Interests:
  • Neuroendocrine mechanisms of animal social behavior
  • Sexual differentiation of behavior
  • Mate choice and social relationships in pair-bonding birds

 
    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:
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Visuolinguistic processing
  • Visual memory and 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

 

 
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