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Rachel F. Barr
Associate Professor - Infant Cognition (website)
Email: rfb5@georgetown.edu
Interests: Transfer of learning skills by infants, utilization of information sources available to infants for learning including television, books and touchscreens, role of parent-child interactions during learning, bilingual and monolingual memory development.
Sandra L. Calvert
Professor - Children's Digital Media (website)
Director, Children's Digital Media Center
Email: calverts@georgetown.edu
Interests: Developmental and child psychology; cognitive and social development of children; effects of television and computers on children's development.
Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton
Assistant Professor - Cultural Psychology (website)
Email: yec2@georgetown.edu
Interests: Cultural psychology; affective science; emotional responding; advice-giving; cultural differences in major depression.
David S. Crystal
Associate Professor - Cultural and Developmental Psychology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Email: crystald@georgetown.edu
Interests: Cross-cultural contexts of psychopathology; cultural and individual foundations of tolerance and intolerance; developmental differences in concepts of normalcy and deviance in diverse societies; cultural and physiological correlates of eating disorders.
Adam E. Green
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Neurogenetics (website)
Email: aeg58@georgetown.edu
Interests: Human intelligence (especially understanding how neural and molecular-genetic processes constitute intelligence; analogical thinking is a focus because it represents broadly useful intelligence yet is a relatively constrained process).
Rom Harre
Distinguished Research Professor - Cultural Psychology
Email: harre@georgetown.edu
Interests: The role of language and other symbol systems in how people think, feel, and act; philosophical issues in creating a truly scientific psychology.
Darlene V. Howard
Professor - Cognitive Neuroscience (website)
Davis Family Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Email: howardd@georgetown.edu
Interests: Cognitive aging, cognitive neuroscience of aging, cognitive and neural bases of implicit forms of learning, maximizing learning in adulthood.
James T. Lamiell
Professor - History & Philosophy of Psychology
Department Chair
Email: lamiellj@georgetown.edu
Interests: Historical, philosophical, and methodological aspects of psychology; human individuality.
Janet Mann
Professor - Animal Behavior (website)
Email: mannj2@georgetown.edu
Interests: Ethology; ecology; evolution; development and parental care in mammals; current research on the behavioral ecology, tool-use, reproduction and development in female bottlenose dolphins and their calves.
Abigail A. Marsh
Assistant Professor - Social & Affective Neuroscience (website)
Email: aam72@georgetown.edu
Interests: Emotion, empathy, altruism, aggression, social perception and nonverbal behavior.
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Professor - Social & Cultural Psychology (website)
Director, Conflicts Resolution Program
Email: moghaddf@georgetown.edu
Interests: Justice and culture; the psychology of dictatorship and democracy; security and terrorism; power relations and conflict; positioning theory; psychology and globalization.
W. Gerrod Parrott
Professor - Human Emotions
Email: parrottg@georgetown.edu
Interests: Functional and dysfunctional aspects of emotion; cultural variability of emotions; history of emotion theory and research; envy, jealousy, shame, guilt, and embarrassment; interdisciplinary research involving psychology and the humanities.
Deborah A. Phillips
Professor - Developmental Psychology (website)
Affiliated Faculty, Georgetown Public Policy Institute
Co-Director, Center for Research on Children in the United States
(On leave, 2012-14 as President, Foundation for Child Development)
Email: dap4@georgetown.edu
Interests: Developmental psychology; child development and public policy; effects of early care and education on early development.
Karl Pribram
Distinguished Research Professor - Neuropsychology (website)
Email: pribramk@georgetown.edu
Interests: Neuropsychology; the relationship between brain, behavior, and mind (psychology).
Rebecca M. Ryan
Assistant Professor - Human Development & Public Policy (website)
Email: rmr64@georgetown.edu
Interests: Early child development; environmental influences on development (parenting, family structure, and socioeconomic context); developmental perspectives on child and family policy.
Steven R. Sabat
Professor - Neuropsychology and Dementia
Email: sabats@georgetown.edu
Interests: Neuropsychology and remaining cognitive and social abilities of people with Alzheimer's Disease.
Chandan J. Vaidya
Associate Professor - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (website)
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Email: cjv2@georgetown.edu
Interests: Neurobiological basis of normal and disordered development of executive control (e.g. Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral methods.
Jennifer L. Woolard
Associate Professor - Developmental, Community, & Law (website)
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Email: jlw47@georgetown.edu
Interests: Developmental and community psychology; law and social policy; adolescent and school violence; judgment and decision-making in legal contexts; attorney-client interactions and ethical violations; intimate
violence victimization.
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