Faculty List

Karen Adolph

Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: karen.adolph@nyu.edu

How do infants learn new motor skills?

Susan Andersen

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: susan.andersen@nyu.edu

How are everyday interpersonal relations influenced by past relationships with significant others?

Ashwini Ashokkumar

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: aa11496@nyu.edu

How do our identities shape (and get shaped by) how we think about, talk about, and do politics?

Emily Balcetis

Associate Professor of Psychology

E-mail: emilybalcetis@nyu.edu

How do motivations influence perception?

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: eb134@nyu.edu

How do humans process spoken and sign language(s)?

Marisa Carrasco

Silver Professor; Collegiate Professor; Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: marisa.carrasco@nyu.edu

What is attention?

Andrei Cimpian

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: andrei.cimpian@nyu.edu

How do children make sense of the world?

Maureen Craig

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: maureen.craig@nyu.edu

How does increasing diversity shape intergroup relations and political ideology?

Clayton E Curtis

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: clayton.curtis@nyu.edu

How does the brain control reflexes to allow voluntary behavior?

Moira Dillon

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: moira.dillon@nyu.edu

How does the physical world in which we live shape the abstract world in which we think?

Ajua Duker

Faculty Fellow & Assistant Professor of Psychology (Starting Fall 2025)

E-mail: ajua.duker@nyu.edu

How does exposure to discrimination impact how people think, feel, and behave?

Peter M Gollwitzer

Professor Of Psychology

E-mail: peter.gollwitzer@nyu.edu

How do goals and plans affect cognition and behavior?

Todd Gureckis

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: todd.gureckis@nyu.edu

How do we learn through interaction with our environment?

Catherine Alexandra Hartley

Associate Professor of Psychology

E-mail: cate@nyu.edu

How do learning and decision-making change across development?

David J. Heeger

Silver Professor; Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: david.heeger@nyu.edu

How does the brain account for conscious visual perception and visually-guided behavior?

John Jost

Professor of Psychology and Politics

E-mail: john.jost@nyu.edu

How and why do people support the status quo?

Eric Knowles

Associate Professor of Psychology

E-mail: eric.knowles@nyu.edu

How do prejudice, identity, and ideology shape social behavior and political judgment?

Brenden Lake

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science

E-mail: brenden@nyu.edu

What are the computational ingredients of intelligence?

Michael Landy

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: landy@nyu.edu

How does vision determine the size, shape, and boundaries of objects in our environment?

Grace Lindsay

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Data Science

E-mail: gracewlindsay@gmail.com

How physics, engineering, and mathematics shape our understanding of the brain.

Wei Ji Ma

Professor of Neural Science and Psychology

E-mail: weijima@nyu.edu

How does the brain perceive, remember, and decide under uncertainty?

Laurence Maloney

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: laurence.maloney@nyu.edu

How do organisms gather information and act on it?

Alec Marantz

Silver Professor; Professor of Linguistics and Psychology

E-mail: marantz@nyu.edu

How does the brain accomplish symbolic computation?

Marcelo Mattar

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: marcelo.mattar@nyu.edu

How does the brain simulate the past and future to guide our decisions?

Brian McElree

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: brian.mcelree@nyu.edu

How do people understand sentences within the limits of working memory?

Sebastian Michelmann

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: s.michelmann@princeton.edu

How do fast neural processes interact to form and retrieve information-rich memories?

Gabriele Oettingen

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: gabriele.oettingen@nyu.edu

How do you make your fantasies come true?

Denis Pelli

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: denis.pelli@nyu.edu

How do we recognize familiar objects like words and faces?

David Poeppel

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: david.poeppel@nyu.edu

What kind of cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms form the basis for speech perception and auditory cognition?

Liina Pylkkänen

Professor of Linguistics and Psychology

E-mail: liina.pylkkanen@nyu.edu

What are the neural bases of language?

Bob Rehder

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: bob.rehder@nyu.edu

How does perceived cause and effect determine categories?

Marjorie Rhodes

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: marjorie.rhodes@nyu.edu

How do concepts develop?

Pablo Ripollés

Assistant Professor of Psychology; Associate Director of the Music and Audio Research Laboratory (MARL)

E-mail: pripolles@nyu.edu

How do music, reward and memory interact?

Yaacov Trope

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: yaacov.trope@nyu.edu

How does distance affect self control?

Jay Van Bavel

Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: jay.vanbavel@nyu.edu

How do our identities, values,and motivations change our perceptions and evaluations of others?

Madalina Vlasceanu

Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: vlasceanu@nyu.edu

How does individual-level social cognition give rise to emergent cognitive phenomena such as collective beliefs or collective action?

Tessa West

Professor of Psychology

E-mail: tessa.west@nyu.edu

How do individuals influence one another's thoughts and feelings during interpersonal interactions…

Jonathan Winawer

Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: jonathan.winawer@nyu.edu

How does biology support perception, and how does perception support cognition?

Elizabeth A Bauer

Clinical Professor of Psychology

E-mail: eab10@nyu.edu

Teach students both the importance and techniques of statistical reasoning.

Clinical Assistant Professor

E-mail: david.bosch@nyu.edu

How we organize (and reorganize) information—sights and sounds, words and pictures, thoughts and feelings—into representations of the world around us.

Liz Przybylinski

Clinical Assistant Professor

E-mail: liz.przy@nyu.edu

Rooted in the Freudian concept of transference, but I and my colleagues re-conceptualize it in social-cognitive terms as an everyday meaning-making process.

Lawrence Ian Reed

Clinical Assistant Professor

E-mail: lr113@nyu.edu

Facial expression, emotion, and cooperation

Jasmina Sose Selimotic

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology

E-mail: jss17@nyu.edu

Dynamic between identity and self to determine how a person uses the self to make choices and sense of the world.

Paul Squires

Clinical Professor of Psychology

E-mail: ps2937@nyu.edu

Assessment validation and measurement of individuals and organizations. Machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) applications in industrial and organizational psychology.

Shannon Tubridy

Lecturer in Psychology

E-mail: st704@nyu.edu

Why some memories are retained and some are lost, how associations between different experiences are maintained and used, and how neural data can inform our understanding of cognition and behavior?

Azadeh Aalai

Adjunct Professor

E-mail: aa6199@nyu.edu

Media depictions during times of war, bystander behavior during the Holocaust, and pedagogical techniques for teaching the Holocaust in higher education

Mike Abrams

Adjunct Professor

E-mail: mike.abrams@nyu.edu

Theories of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Modern Psychological Treatments. He researches the effect childhood abuse on sexual development.

Rita Aiello

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: rita.aiello@nyu.edu

Psychology of Music

Robert Ausch

Adjunct Instructor

E-mail: ra2005@nyu.edu

How do culture, geography and social inequality shape thinking and experience?

Paul Bailo

Adjunct Instructor

E-mail: pb685@nyu.edu

Digital Transformation, Marketing and Business Operations

Charlie S. Burlingham

Adjunct Professor

E-mail: csb455@nyu.edu

Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience, Perceptual Psychology, VR/AR

Kenneth Carr

Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular Pharmacology and Biochemistry

E-mail: kenneth.carr@nyulangone.org

Physiological Basis of Abnormal Behavior, Physiological Basis of Behavior

Mariana Diaz-Wionczek

Adjunct Professor

E-mail: mariana@mdwconsultingresearch.com

Psychological Influence of Children’s Media

Jean Elbaum

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: jed9@nyu.edu

Memory, Rehabilitation

Annette Flippen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: annette.flippen@nyu.edu

Work Motivation and Attitudes, Leadership and Strategic Change

Paulette L Forte

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: plf223@nyu.edu

Introduction to Organizational Psychology, Psychology of Diversity, Training in Organizations

Andrew R. Getzfeld

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: arg6@nyu.edu

Studies bulimia nervosa, addictions, abnormal psychology, children and child development, and psychopharmacology.

Joseph Grochowalski

E-mail: jg4134@nyu.edu

Detecting group cheating, psychometric profiles...

Leyla Gulcur

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: leyla.gulcur@nyu.edu

Love and Attachment in Adult Relationships, Group Dynamics

Nora Isacoff

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: nmi208@nyu.edu

Interdisciplinary, Cognitive Psychology

Matthew Jones

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: matthewwjonesphd@gmail.com

Intro to I/O Psychology, Training in Organizations, Personnel Selection

Zoran Josipovic

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: zoran@nyu.edu

Cognitive Neuroscience, Affective Neuroscience

Stephanie Keer

Adjunct Professor

E-mail: skeer@nyu.edu

Master's Statistics

Christopher Rotolo

Adjunct Assistant Professor, I/O Psychology

E-mail: ctr2@nyu.edu

Intro to I/O Psychology, Personnel Selection

Lise Saari

Adjunct Assistant Professor, I/O Psychology

E-mail: lise.saari@nyu.edu

Group Dynamics, Personality and Organizational Behavior

Suzan Uysal

Adjunct Associate Professor

E-mail: sgu1@nyu.edu

Neuropsychology

Anna Marie Valerio

Adjunct Assistant Professor

E-mail: av2839@nyu.edu

Executive Coaching

Zhana Vrangalova

Adjunct Professor of Psychology

E-mail: sv52@nyu.edu

What determines thriving in our sexual and relational lives?

Jared Weintraub

Adjunct Instructor

E-mail: jared.weintraub@nyu.edu

Flow Theory - how, when, and why individuals, teams, and organizations can get into “the Zone.”

Andy Hilford

Associate Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

E-mail: andy.hilford@nyu.edu

What cognitive systems allow individuals to distinguish between old events and new events?

Doris Aaronson

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: dra1@nyu.edu

Shelly Chaiken

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: sc4@nyu.edu

Attitude structure and change, social cognition.

Ted Coons

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science

E-mail: edgar.coons@nyu.edu

How does music move us?

Scott Eggebeen

Clinical Emeritus Professor

E-mail: se17@nyu.edu

Multidimensional scaling and the nature of underlying structure in data.

Murray Glanzer

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: mg3@nyu.edu

Likelihood ratios and decision theory.

Leo Goldberger

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: leo.goldberger@nyu.edu

Stress and coping, the Holocaust and altruistic behavior, psychoanalytic theory.

Madeline Heilman

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: madeline.heilman@nyu.edu

How do gender stereotypes affect evaluations of working women?

Martin Hoffman

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: martin.hoffman@nyu.edu

Development of empathy, and its relationship with moral development

Lloyd Kaufman

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: lloyd.kaufman@gmail.com

Applied problems in design and evaluating flight instruments, role of vision in midair collisions, perception.

Richard Koppenaal

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: richard.koppenaal@nyu.edu

Memory retrieval

Gary Marcus

Professor Emeritus of Psychology

E-mail: gfm1@nyu.edu

How does a child learn to talk? Why is that humans can acquire language when no other species can?