Psychology
The Department of Psychology is well-known for its innovation and leadership in the field, conducting formative research in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and developmental psychopathology. We have made important contributions through cutting-edge work that uses machine learning, wearable data collection devices, and a suite of neuroimaging tools — to name just a few of our techniques.
Faculty
Jennifer Ablow, associate professor (developmental psychopathology, attachment, interpersonal emotional arousal and regulation). BA, 1988, Colorado, Boulder; PhD, 1997, California, Berkeley. (1999)
Nicholas Allen, Ann Swindells Professor in Clinical Psychology (adolescent development and mental health, mood disorders, developmental social and affective neuroscience). BS 1985, MS, 1988, PhD, 1993, Melbourne. (2013)
Sunhye (Sunny) Bai, assistant professor (clinical psychology, development, emotion regulation, family relationships, peer relationships). BS, 2008, MPH, 2010, PdD, 2017, California, Los Angeles. (2023)
Jagdeep Kaur Bala, associate teaching professor (cognitive neuroscience, perception, attention). BSc, 1988, MSc, 1990, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; PhD, 1997, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. (2007)
Dare A. Baldwin, professor (language acquisition, semantic development, cognitive development). BA, 1982, California, Berkeley; MSc, 1984, California, Santa Cruz; PhD, 1989, Stanford. (1993)
Ted Bell, instructor (brain development, human memory, applied cognitive science). BS, 1990, Oregon State; MS, 1997, PhD, 2005, Oregon. (2011)
Elliot Berkman, professor (affective neuroscience, self-regulation, quantitative methods for neuroimaging). BA, 2002, Stanford; PhD, 2009, California, Los Angeles. (2010)
Melynda D. Casement, associate professor (clinical psychology). AB, 2002, Mount Holyoke College; PhD, 2010, Michigan. (2016)
Robert Chavez, associate professor (social neuroscience, interpersonal perception, personality and individual differences). BS, 2008, New Mexico; PhD, 2015, Dartmouth College. (2016)
Evelyn Cho, assistant professor (clinical psychology, access to mental health services). BA, 2013, California, Los Angeles; MA, 2017, PhD, 2021, Missouri. (2024)
Sheila Crowell, professor (clinical psychology, developmental psychopathology, emotion dysregulation, psychophysiology). BA, 1999, Boise State; MA, 2002, California, Los Angeles; PhD, 2009, Washington (Seattle). 2023
Paul Dassonville, associate professor (cognitive neuroscience, perception, sensorimotor integration). BS, 1986, Texas A & M; PhD, 1992, California, Los Angeles. (1999)
Dagmar Zeithamova Demircan, associate professor (cognitive neuroscience, memory). MA, 2003, Charles University, Prague; PhD, 2008, Texas, Austin. (2014)
Nicole M. Dudukovic, associate teaching professor (cognitive neuroscience, memory). BA, 2000, Stanford; MA, 2002, California, Los Angeles; PhD, 2007, Stanford. (2015)
Ruth Ellingsen, clinical associate professor (clinical psychology). BA, 2007, Wake Forest; MA, 2011, PhD, 2016, California, Los Angeles. (2018)
Caitlin M. Fausey, associate professor (development, language and cognition, experience sampling). BA, 2004, Northwestern; MA, 2008, PhD, 2010, Stanford. (2014)
Michelle Fenesy, assistant clinical professor (clinical psychology). BA, 2009, Lewis & Clark; MA, 2015, PhD, 2020, California, Los Angeles. (2023)
Lauren Forrest, assistant professor (clinical psychology, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, quantitative clinical science methods, intersectionality). BS, 2012, Utah; MA, 2015, PhD, 2020, Miami University. (2024)
Tina Gupta, assistant professor (clinical psychology, risk for severe mental illness, psychosis-risk, adolescent development, emotion). BA 2011, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD 2022, Northwestern University. (2025)
Sara D. Hodges, professor (social cognition, construction of social judgments). BA, 1989, Rhodes; MA, 1992, PhD, 1995, Virginia. (1995)
Benjamin Hutchinson, assistant professor (cognitive neuroscience, memory, attention). BA, 2004, Pennsylvania; PhD, 2011, Stanford. (2018)
Simran Johal, assistant professor (quantitative psychology, psychometric networks, longitudinal data analysis, dynamic modeling). BS, 2019, UC Davis; PhD, 2025, UC Davis. (2025)
Christina M. Karns, associate teaching professor (attention, social emotions, neuroplasticity, neuroimaging). BS, 1999, California, San Diego; PhD, 2008, California, Berkeley. (2008)
Mariah Kornbluh, associate professor (development, community psychology, youth participatory action research, diversity science). BA, 2008, California, Santa Cruz; MA, 2012, PhD, 2015, Michigan State. (2022)
Brice A. Kuhl, professor (cognitive neuroscience, memory, neuroimaging). BA, 2001, Kenyon College; PhD, 2009, Stanford. (2015)
Anne Mannering, instructor, program director Online Master’s in Psychology (cognitive and social-emotional development, early life stress, self-regulation). BA, 1998, UT Austin; MS, 2001, PhD, 2006, Oregon. (2020)
Robert Mauro, associate professor (social, emotions, psychology and law). AB, 1979, Stanford; MS, 1981, Yale; PhD, 1984, Stanford. (1984)
Ulrich Mayr, Robert and Beverly Lewis Professor in Neuroscience (cognitive neuroscience, cognitive aging). BA, 1988, PhD, 1992, Berlin. (2000)
Jeffrey Measelle, professor (developmental psychology, emotional development, family). BA, 1985, Brown; PhD, 1997, California, Berkeley. (1999)
Chanel Meyers, assistant professor (social psychology, diversity science, intergroup processes). BS, 2012, Western Oregon University; PhD, 2018, Hawai'i, Manoa. (2022)
Kate Mills, associate professor (development, social neuroscience, adolescence). BA, 2011, Portland State; PhD, 2015, University College, London. (2018)
Vishnu (Deepu) Murty, associate professor (cognitive neuroscience, learning and memory, motivation, adaptive behavior). BS, 2005, Brown; PhD, 2012, Duke. (2024)
John Myers, instructor (research methods, evolutionary psychology). BS, 2007, MS, 2009, Oregon; PhD, 2016, Minnesota. (2022)
Alayna Park, assistant professor (clinical psychology, accessibility and effectiveness of mental health services, diversity science). BA, 2012, PhD, 2020, California, Los Angeles. (2022)
Jordan Pennefather, associate teaching professor (social and educational psychology, methodology, data analysis). BA, 2003, California State, Dominguez Hills; PhD, 2008, Colorado, Boulder. (2010)
Jennifer Pfeifer, professor (developmental and social cognitive neuroscience, adolescent self-perception and emotion processing). BA, 2000, Stanford; MA, 2003, PhD, 2007, California, Los Angeles (2008)
Curtis Phills, associate professor (social psychology, implicit bias, diversity science). BA, 2004, MS, 2006, PhD, 2013, York University. (2024)
Lisa Scotch, lecturer. BA, 1999, University of South Florida; MS, 2011, PhD, 2017, Walden. (2021)
Margaret E. Sereno, professor (visual cognition, neural network modeling, brain imaging). BA, 1983, Northern Illinois; PhD, 1989, Brown. (1991)
Sohna Shook, lecturer. BS, 2007, Friends; MEd, 2009, Wichita State; PhD, 2020, Walden. (2021)
Elizabeth Skowron, professor (clinical psychology, child-parent psychotherapy, emotion regulation and self-control in caregivers and children). BA, 1998, Ohio State; MS, 1991, PhD, 1995, SUNY, Albany. (2019)
Paul Slovic, professor (judgment, decision-making, risk assessment). BA, 1959, Stanford; MA, 1962, PhD, 1964, Michigan. (1986)
Matt Smear, associate professor (systems neuroscience, olfaction). ScB, 1998, Duke; PhD, 2005, California, San Francisco. (2014)
Nash Unsworth, professor (working memory, memory and attention differences, memory search and retrieval). BS, 2001, Idaho State; PhD, 2006, Georgia Institute of Technology. (2010)
Michael Wehr, professor (systems neuroscience, auditory neurophysiology, cortical circuits). ScB, 1991, Brown; PhD, 1999, California Institute of Technology. (2005)
Sara Weston, associate professor (social personality, health, personality development). BA, 2012, Northwestern; MA, 2014, PhD, 2017, Washington (St. Louis). (2019)
Ariel Williamson, assistant professor (clinical psychology, child and adolescent psychology, community-engaged research, sleep medicine). BA, 2006, California, Santa Barbara; MA, 2010, Northwestern; MA, 2012, PhD, 2016, Delaware. (2023)
Blanche Wright, assistant professor (clinical psychology, racial/ethnic inequities in mental health care, research-practice-policy gaps). BS, 2013, MA, 2017, PhD, 2022, California, Los Angeles. (2024)
Maureen Zalewski, professor (clinical psychology, emotion and stress regulation contributing to psychopathology) BS, 2005, Pennsylvania State; MS, 2008, PhD, 2012, Washington (Seattle). (2013)
Ahmar Zaman, instructor (psychopathology). BS, 2012, Lycoming; MA, 2016, PhD, 2020, University of Detroit Mercy. (2022)
Emerit Faculty
Holly Arrow, professor emerit (group dynamics, psychology of war). BA, 1977, Elmira; MFA, 1982, Colorado, Boulder; MA, 1995, PhD, 1996, Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (1996)
Crystal Dehle, clinical associate professor emerit. AB, 1953, Harvard; MA, 1954, PhD, 1958, Michigan. (1960)
Lewis R. Goldberg, professor emerit. AB, 1953, Harvard; MA, 1954, PhD, 1958, Michigan. (1960)
Barbara Gordon-Lickey, professor emerit. AB, 1963, Radcliffe; PhD, 1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (1969)
Marvin Gordon-Lickey, professor emerit. AB, 1959, Oberlin; MA, 1962, PhD, 1965, Michigan. (1967)
Douglas L. Hintzman, professor emerit. BA, 1963, Northwestern; PhD, 1967, Stanford. (1969)
Ray Hyman, professor emerit. AB, 1950, Boston University; MA, 1952, PhD, 1953, Johns Hopkins. (1961)
Carolin Keutzer, associate professor emerit. BA, 1960, MA, 1963, PhD, 1967, Oregon. (1967)
Daniel P. Kimble, professor emerit. BA, 1956, Knox; PhD, 1961, Michigan. (1963)
Edward Lichtenstein, professor emerit. BA, 1956, Duke; MA, 1957, PhD, 1961, Michigan. (1966)
Richard Marrocco, professor emerit. BA, 1965, California, Los Angeles; PhD, 1972, Indiana. (1973)
Louis J. Moses, professor emerit. BA, 1983, Western Australia; PhD, 1991, Stanford. (1993)
Michael I. Posner, professor emerit. BS, 1957, MS, 1959, Washington (Seattle); PhD, 1962, Michigan. (1965)
Mary K. Rothbart, professor emerit. BA, 1962, Reed; PhD, 1967, Stanford. (1969)
Myron Rothbart, professor emerit. BA, 1962, Reed; PhD, 1966, Stanford. (1969)
Gerard Saucier, professor emerit (personality beliefs and values, psychometrics). BA, 1978, North Carolina, Chapel Hill; MA, 1984, PhD, 1991, Oregon. (1997)
Anne D. Simons, professor emerit. BA, 1974, Stanford; PhD, 1982, Washington (St. Louis). (2006)
Sanjay Srivastava, professor emerit (interpersonal perception and self-perception, social functions of emotions, personality dynamics and development). BA, 1995, Northwestern, PhD, 2002, California, Berkeley. (2004)
Marjorie Taylor, professor emerit. BS, 1979, MS, 1981, Acadia; PhD, 1985, Stanford. (1985)
Don M. Tucker, professor emerit (emotion, cognition, neuropsychology). BA, 1969, Colorado; MS, 1972, PhD, 1974, Pennsylvania State. (1984)
Robert L. Weiss, professor emerit. BA, 1952, PhD, 1958, State University of New York, Buffalo. (1966)
The date in parentheses at the end of each entry is the first year on the University of Oregon faculty.