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The Department of Psychology has five topical areas: 1) Brain and Cognitive Science focuses on understanding cognition, motivation, decision-making, computational modeling, emotion, and perception in terms of the underlying brain processes and manifested behaviors. Faculty work at the confluence of psychology, biology and neuroscience. 2) Clinical Science applies scientific theories and methods to examine psychosocial issues associated with significant societal problems including alcohol abuse, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, early identification of psychosis, family environments and risk and resilience in youth, bullying and peer victimization. Specialization is available in clinical-aging, child and family clinical, and adult clinical. 3) Developmental Psychology studies change in human behavior, cognition, language, neurological structure and emotions across the lifespan from childhood through early adulthood. 4) Quantitative Methods provides training in basic and advanced research methods and statistics used in psychometrics and measurement, longitudinal data analysis, behavior genetics modeling decision making, and methods for analyzing multivariate data. 5) Social Psychology studies the thoughts, feeling and actions of individuals as they are influenced by other individuals and by groups.

The department also offers a joint major in Linguistics/Psychology and participates in the Dornsife College’s interdisciplinary program in Neuroscience.

Research is integral to psychology; it enables the faculty to make contributions in the field and to be more effective teachers. Undergraduate students are encouraged to work with members of the faculty on research projects. The most direct way for students to participate in research is to enroll in a directed research course ( PSYC 290    or PSYC 490   ), but it is also possible to take part in ongoing research in less formal ways. Further options for research training also includes the honors program for psychology majors. The department now offers two MS programs in Applied Psychology (MAPP) and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).

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Chair: JoAnn M. Farver, PhD

University Professor and ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging and Professor of Gerontology, Psychology, Biological Sciences and Anthropology: Caleb E. Finch, PhD (Gerontology)

University Professor and Dana Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology and Neurology: Hanna Damasio, MD

University Professor and David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology, Neurology and Philosophy: Antonio Damasio, MD, PhD

Harold Dornsife Chair in Neurosciences and Professor of Psychology and Computer Science: Irving Biederman, PhD

Niki and Max Nikias Chair in Engineering, Andrew Viterbi Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics and Psychology: Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, PhD (Engineering)

University Professor and Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology: Larry W. Swanson, PhD (Biological Sciences)

Distinguished Professor and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Psychology: Elyn R. Saks, JD (Law)

Provost Professor of Cell and Neurobiology, and Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Psychology: Pat Levitt, PhD (Cell and Neurobiology)

Provost Professor of Psychology and Marketing: Norbert Schwarz, PhD

Provost Professor of Social Work, Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, Gerontology and Psychology: William Vega, PhD (Social Work)

Provost Professor of Psychology and Business: Wendy Wood, PhD

Dean’s Professor of Psychology and Professor of Psychology, Education, and Communication: Daphna Oyserman, PhD

Mendel Silberberg Professor of Social Psychology and Professor of Psychology: Stephen J. Read, PhD

Professors: Laura A. Baker, PhD; Antoine Bechara, PhD; Sarah Bottjer, PhD (Biological Sciences) ; Peter Carnevale, PhD (Business) ; Gerald C. Davison*, PhD; JoAnn M. Farver*, PhD; Ernest Greene, PhD; Andrea Hollingshead, PhD (Communication) ; Laurent Itti, PhD (Computer Science) ; David G. Lavond, PhD; Adam Leventhal, PhD (Preventive Medicine) ; Steven Lopez, PhD; Thomas D. Lyon, JD, PhD (Law) ; Franklin R. Manis*, PhD; Gayla Margolin*, PhD; Mara Mather, PhD (Gerontology) ; John J. McArdle, PhD; Beth E. Meyerowitz*, PhD; Lynn Miller, PhD (Communication) ; Carol A. Prescott, PhD; Stephen J. Read, PhD; Dan Simon, SJD (Law) ; Elizabeth Sowell, PhD (Pediatrics) ; Arthur Stone, PhD; Steven Yale Sussman, PhD (Institute for Prevention Research) ; Suzanne Wenzel (Social Work) ; Rand Wilcox, PhD; Elizabeth Zelinski, PhD (Gerontology)

Associate Professors: Giorgio Coricelli, PhD (Economics) ; Duke Han, PhD (Family Medicine) ; Stanley J. Huey, Jr., PhD; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, PhD (Education) ; Richard S. John, PhD; Toben Mintz, PhD; John Monterosso*, PhD; Joseph Priester, PhD (Business) ; David Schwartz, PhD; April Thames, PhD; David A. Walsh, PhD; Justin Wood*, PhD; Jason D. Zevin, PhD

Assistant Professors: Christopher Beam, PhD; Morteza Dehghani, PhD; Genevieve Dunton, PhD (Preventive Medicine) ; Hok Chio (Mark) Lai, PhD; Henrike Moll, PhD; Daniel Nation, PhD; Darby Saxbe, PhD

Clinical Professor: Ernest R. Katz, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor: Marian Williams, PhD

Professor of the Practice of Psychology: Ellen Leggett, EdD

Professors (Research): Margaret Gatz, PhD; Jonathan Gratch, PhD (Computer Science) ; Donna Spruijt-Metz, PhD

Associate Professors of the Practice of Psychology: Robert Chernoff, PhD; Meredith Lepley, PhD; Shannon O’Flinn, PhD; Jonathan Tarbox, PhD

Associate Professors (Teaching): Jorge Barraza, PhD; Ann Renken, PhD

Associate Professors (Research): Karen M. Hennigan, PhD; Susan Luczak, PhD

Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology: Samantha Broitman, PhD

Assistant Professor (Teaching): C. Miranda Barone, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research): Assal Habibim PhD; Jonas Kaplan, PhD

Lecturers: William Breland, PhD; Sule Guney, PhD; Canan Ipek, PhD; Francesca Puggelli, PhD; Steven Westberg, PhD

Adjunct Professor (Research): Nancy Pedersen, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor: Jasmine Tehrani, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Research): Kaspar Meyer, PhD

Adjunt Lecturers: Maura Roggero, PhD; Khatera Sahibzada, PhD; Luke Thelen, PhD

University Professor of Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Psychology: Michael A. Arbib, PhD (Computer Science)

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Mendel B. Silberberg Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology: Norman Miller, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology: Robert Rueda, PhD (Education)

Emeritus Professors: Elaine Anderson, PhD; Kathleen Chambers, PhD; Norman Cliff, PhD; Michael Dawson, PhD; William W. Grings, PhD; Jerald Jellison, PhD; Albert R. Marston, PhD

*Recipient of university-wide or college teaching award.

Undergraduate Degrees

Requirements for the bachelor of arts with a combined major in linguistics and psychology.

For the lower division: LING 210   , PSYC 100    and PSYC 274Lg    are required. For the upper division the following courses are required: LING 301    and LING 302   ; PSYC 314L   ; two courses selected from LING 380   , LING 401   , LING 402   , LING 403   , LING 405   , , , , ,  and ; three additional courses selected from , , , , ,  and . See .

Minor in Critical Approaches to Leadership

Honors program.

The department offers an honors program for outstanding students in the BA, Psychology major who desire advanced research training in preparation for graduate work in the social sciences or in professional schools. The primary focus of the honors program is the completion of a research study under the guidance of a faculty adviser. Students are admitted to the program in the fall semester of their junior year and enter the program in the spring of their junior year by enrolling in . To be eligible for admission, a student must have an overall GPA of at least 3.5 at the time of application to the program. This program is not available to students majoring in Social Sciences with an emphasis in Psychology. Students in the honors program complete all major requirements, including  during the spring semester of their junior year and  during the spring semester of their senior year. Students complete an honors thesis proposal as part of the Junior Honors Seminar and must submit a completed senior honors thesis by April 1 of the senior year. Students are also expected to have an overall GPA of at least 3.5 at the time of graduation. For further information, contact the undergraduate adviser or the director of the program, Dr. JoAnn M. Farver.

Psi Chi is the national honor society in psychology. Membership is open to graduate and undergraduates who meet the minimum qualifications. Psi Chi is a member of the Association of the College Honor Societies and is an affiliate of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.

Graduate Degrees

The Department of Psychology offers an MS in Applied Psychology, an MS in Applied Behavior Analysis and five programs of study that to the PhD degree: (1) clinical science, including specializations in adult clinical, clinical-aging and child and family; (2) developmental psychology, including child and adolescent development and adult development and aging; (3) brain and cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, clinical neuroscience and behavioral genetics; (4) quantitative methods; and (5) social psychology. All five specialty PhD areas provide training for careers in research, teaching and applied work. 

Admission Requirements

Psychology courses required for admission to the PhD program include the following courses: Introduction to Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, or Experimental Psychology; and at least one course from each of the following lists: (1) comparative psychology, physiological psychology, sensation and perception, learning and memory, motivation, and emotion; and (2) developmental psychology, social psychology, abnormal psychology, personality, and history of psychology. Additional courses are desirable, as is work in the biological, physical and social sciences, in mathematics and in philosophy. Students with less background in psychology but outstanding undergraduate records in related fields are also encouraged to apply.

Students are selected on the basis of their undergraduate records, scores on the Graduate Record Examinations General Test, course background, letters of evaluation, personal statement of interests and goals and evidence of research skills or interests (e.g., publications or participation in research projects).

The faculty of each specialty area select the students to be admitted to that area. Therefore, applicants should designate the specialty area to which they seek admission.

Application for admission in psychology is completed online and all materials must be submitted by December 1 for admission to the following fall semester.

Degree Requirements

These degrees are under the jurisdiction of the Graduate School. Refer to the  section and  section of this catalogue for general regulations. All courses applied toward the degrees must be courses accepted by the Graduate School.

Bachelor’s Degree

• •  Cognitive Science (BA)
• •  Psychology (BA)
• •  Social Sciences, with an Emphasis in Psychology (BA)
• •  Consumer Behavior Interdisciplinary Minor
• •  Psychology and Law Minor
• •  Psychology Minor

Master’s Degree

• •  Applied Behavior Analysis (MS)
• •  Applied Psychology (MS)
• •  Psychology (MA)

Dual Degree

• •  Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (Clinical) and Master of Public Health (Health Promotion) (PhD/MPH)

Doctoral Degree

• •  Psychology (PhD)
• •  PSYC 100Lg Introduction to Psychology
• •  PSYC 165Lg Drugs, Behavior and Society
• •  PSYC 201Lg The Science of Happiness
• •  PSYC 210gmw Social Analysis of Gender
• •  PSYC 240gx Scientific Inquiry and Reasoning in Health Care
• •  PSYC 274Lg Statistics
• •  PSYC 275Lg Language and Mind
• •  PSYC 290x Supervised Research in Psychology
• •  PSYC 301L Cognitive Processes
• •  PSYC 304L Sensation and Perception
• •  PSYC 305 Learning and Memory
• •  PSYC 314L Research Methods
• •  PSYC 316L Non-Experimental Research Methods
• •  PSYC 320 Principles of Psychobiology
• •  PSYC 326 Behavioral Neuroscience
• •  PSYC 336L Developmental Psychology
• •  PSYC 337L Adult Development and Aging
• •  PSYC 339Lg Origins of the Mind
• •  PSYC 353g Close Relationships
• •  PSYC 355 Social Psychology
• •  PSYC 360 Abnormal Psychology
• •  PSYC 361 Introduction to Clinical Psychology
• •  PSYC 363 Criminal Behavior
• •  PSYC 365 Introduction to Forensic Psychology
• •  PSYC 367g Stress, Health, and the Mind-Body Connection
• •  PSYC 372 Human Sexuality
• •  PSYC 380 Junior Honors Seminar
• •  PSYC 390 Special Problems
• •  PSYC 391 Directed Field Experience in Psychology
• •  PSYC 404L Psychophysiology of Emotion
• •  PSYC 405 Child Language Acquisition
• •  PSYC 406 Psycholinguistics
• •  PSYC 407 Atypical Language
• •  PSYC 412 Current Topics In Social Psychology
• •  PSYC 415L Psychological Measurement
• •  PSYC 418 Experimental Exploration into the Origins of Cognition
• •  PSYC 420 Animal Behavior
• •  PSYC 421L Data Analysis for Psychological Research
• •  PSYC 422 Human Judgment and Decision Making
• •  PSYC 423 User Experience
• •  PSYC 424 Neuropsychology
• •  PSYC 425 Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
• •  PSYC 426 Motivated Behaviors and Addiction
• •  PSYC 428 Advanced Psychobiology Seminar
• •  PSYC 430 Social Development of Infants, Children and Adolescents
• •  PSYC 433 Children’s Learning and Cognitive Development
• •  PSYC 434 Intelligence, Problem Solving and Creativity
• •  PSYC 437 Adolescent Development
• •  PSYC 438 Behavioral Genetics
• •  PSYC 440 Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience
• •  PSYC 450 Neural Network Models of Social and Cognitive Processes
• •  PSYC 451 Formation and Change of Attitudes
• •  PSYC 453 Intergroup Relations
• •  PSYC 454 Social Cognition
• •  PSYC 456 Conservation Psychology
• •  PSYC 459 Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• •  PSYC 462m Culture and Mental Health
• •  PSYC 464 Psychology of Marriage and the Family
• •  PSYC 469 Schizophrenia Research
• •  PSYC 480x Senior Honors Seminar
• •  PSYC 490x Directed Research
• •  PSYC 499 Special Topics
• •  PSYC 500L An Overview of Quantitative Methods in Psychology
• •  PSYC 501L Classic and Modern Statistical Methods I
• •  PSYC 502 Classic and Modern Statistical Methods II
• •  PSYC 503L Regression and the General Linear Model
• •  PSYC 504 Research Design
• •  PSYC 505 Research Methods in Applied Social Psychology
• •  PSYC 506 Learning and Cognition
• •  PSYC 508 Historical Foundations of Psychology
• •  PSYC 512 Seminar in Social Psychology
• •  PSYC 513 Attitudes and Social Influence
• •  PSYC 514 Psychopathology
• •  PSYC 515 Clinical Assessment
• •  PSYC 517 Group Dynamics and Leadership
• •  PSYC 520 Fundamentals of Psychological Measurement
• •  PSYC 521 Cross Cultural Psychology in Applied Settings
• •  PSYC 524 Research Design in Developmental Psychology
• •  PSYC 530 Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis
• •  PSYC 531 Behavioral Assessment
• •  PSYC 532 Ethics for Behavior Analysts
• •  PSYC 533 Cognitive Development in Children
• •  PSYC 534 Social and Emotional Development in Children
• •  PSYC 535 Research Methods in Behavior Analysis
• •  PSYC 536 Behavioral Interventions
• •  PSYC 537 Development and Supervision of Intervention Systems
• •  PSYC 538 Origins of Human Nature
• •  PSYC 539 Behavioral Approaches to Skill Acquisition
• •  PSYC 540 Cognitive Neuroscience
• •  PSYC 544 Psychophysiology
• •  PSYC 545 Neuropsychology
• •  PSYC 547 Functional Neuroanatomy
• •  PSYC 550a Proseminar in Human Behavior
• •  PSYC 550b Proseminar in Human Behavior
• •  PSYC 551 Decision Neuroscience
• •  PSYC 552 Principles of Consumer Psychology
• •  PSYC 555 Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• •  PSYC 556 Psychology of Interactive Media
• •  PSYC 565x Organizational Psychology
• •  PSYC 566 The Psychology of Employee Selection and Assessment

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Duke Han, PhD

• 1998 Bachelors of Science, Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC
• 1998 Certificate in Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC
• 2001 Masters, Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
• 2001-2002 Practicum in Neuropsychology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham Behavioral Neurology Group, Boston, MA
• 2003-2004 Clinical Internship, Neuropsychology/Behavioral Medicine, UCSD Medical Center/VASDHS, San Diego, CA
• 2004 Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
• 2011 Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology, American Board of Professional Psychology
• Cognitive Aging
• Decision Making
• Elder Abuse

Affiliations

• Faculty Affiliate, USC Neuroscience Graduate Program

Duke Han, PhD, is a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Director of the Neuropsychology Division in Family Medicine, and a tenured Professor of Family Medicine, Neurology, Psychology, and Gerontology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology with a specialization in Neuroscience from Duke University, and his PhD Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received training in clinical neuropsychology and experimental neuroimaging techniques through various programs of Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He continued his clinical neuropsychology and neuroimaging activities during his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship years at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego VA Healthcare System. He maintains an active research collaboration with the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) in Chicago where he was formerly a tenured faculty member.

Dr. Han is interested in the factors that affect cognition and decision making in aging. He also has special interests in leveraging novel empirical approaches to better understand these factors, and in the advocacy of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion considerations in aging and neuroscience research. He was the recipient of the prestigious Paul B. Beeson fellowship, which is considered the premiere career development award of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). He is the primary investigator or co-investigator on multiple research grants extramurally funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and private foundations. He is actively involved in the peer-review of aging and Alzheimer’s Disease research grants, and has previously served as the Chair of the NIA Clinical and Translational Research of Aging review committee (NIA-T) and the Neuroscience of Aging review committee (NIA-N). Dr. Han is a founding governance committee member of the Global Council on Brain Health, an international independent science collaborative convened by AARP that is tasked with offering the aging public the best advice about brain health. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the American Psychological Association (APA) Presidential Task Force on Neuropsychological Test Norming in Diverse Populations. Dr. Han has served as an oral examiner for the clinical neuropsychology board certification process for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN), and he currently holds multiple service or mentorship

roles in the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), and the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40) of the APA. His work has been featured in multiple media outlets, including Reuters, CBS, PBS, Forbes, Fox Business News, and U.S. News and World Report .

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Members: USC Dornsife Department of Psychology

Antoine Bechara

Wändi Bruine de Bruin

Morteza Dehghany

Jonathan Gratch 

Leor hackel , richard john , john monterosso.

Shri Narayanan

Daphna Oyserman

Stephen Read

Norbert Schwarz Research: I study the interplay of feeling and thinking in judgment and decision making, including public opinion, consumer behavior, and well-being.

Dan Simon  

Wendy Wood 

Andreas aristidou.

Email id: [email protected]

School: Dornsife Department of Economics, Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

Role : Alumni from Ph.D. in Economics program and former Research Assistant at CESR

Research Description: Persuasion, Incentives, financial decision making, and life satisfaction

Website Link: aristidouandreas.com

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Behavior change interventions, and nudging

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Behavior change interventions, and nudging

Elizabeth Hannan

Bio: Elizabeth Hannan is a rising senior at the University of Southern California pursuing a B.A. in Neuroscience and a minor in Business Finance. At present, Elizabeth aims to pursue work, involvement and leadership activities that combine her passions for medicine, finance and advancing female leaders in business. She serves as Chief Executive Officer of Marshall Women’s Leadership Board, an organization comprised of aspiring female leaders in business at USC, as the Finance Director of OWN IT at USC, a women’s leadership summit and as the Student Board Member on the National Board of Order of Omega, an international academic honor society of Greek leaders. Previously, Elizabeth conducted research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Healthy Policy and Economics at USC and served as the Chapter President of the Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Chi Omega and as President of the Omega Phi Chapter of Order of Omega at USC. In her free time, she is an avid reader, practices ashtanga yoga and enjoys listening to the Michelle Obama and Freakonomics podcast series. After graduation, Elizabeth looks forward to working at Pfizer Inc. as a Finance Associate.

Bio: Wändi Bruine de Bruin is a Provost Professor of Public Policy, Psychology, and Behavioral Science. She has published more than 125 peer-reviewed publications on the psychology of risk perception and communication, as applied to personal health, sustainability and climate change, as well as household finances. Across USC, she holds affiliations with the Sol Price School of Public Policy, the Department of Psychology, the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, the Center for Economic and Social Research, and the Center for Sustainability Solutions, and the  National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) . She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Psychology:Applied, the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Decision, Medical Decision Making, the Journal of Risk Research, and Psychology and Aging. Her research on age differences in decision making was recently covered by  Psychology Today  and the  BBC World’s Why Factor . She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences committee on  mask use and respiratory health . She has served on expert panels for the National Academy of Sciences on  Communicating Science Effectively  and for the Council of the Canadian Academies on  Health Product Risk Communication . With colleagues in the Center for Economic and Social Research, she is running a  national longitudinal survey  to track symptoms, risk perceptions, protective behaviors, food insecurity, and political polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. She is also studying how people’s expectations of others’ behaviors can improve predictions of  election outcomes  and  vaccination behavior .

Katherine Winn

Bio: Katherine Winn is a senior studying Business Administration with a minor in Communication Policy and Law. She is on the pre-law track and plans to go into the Data Privacy field in her future career. As a part of the USC Marshall Honors Program, she wrote an undergraduate thesis “‘Do Not Sell my Personal Information’ or ‘Accept Cookies?’ Effects of Cookie Banners on Consumer Perceptions and Decisions” in order to study how recent data privacy legislation and new regulations have affected consumer decisions. At USC she is involved in Marshall Women’s Leadership Board, the Marshall International Case Competition, and her Greek organization.

Patrycja Sleboda

Bio: Patrycja Sleboda, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Scientist at Cedars-Sinai, Cancer Research Center for Health Equity and a visiting scholar at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. Patrycja’s main expertise is in behavioral science and decision-making psychology. Her research focuses on consumer behavior, health and sustainability and examines the role of risk perception and individual differences in effective communication and interventions.

MaryAnn Samson

Bio: MaryAnn Samson is an MSW student at USC, class of 2021. She completed her undergraduate degree at Endicott College in Psychology. She is passionate about behavioral science and particularly enjoys the topic through both a psychological and social justice lens. She is starting her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at Washington State University in Fall 2021 where she will be studying health behavior change. 

Nikolaos Flemotomos

Bio: Nikolaos (Nikos) Flemotomos is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, member of the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on computational models of behavioral patterns. He is utilizing machine learning algorithms with applications in speech and language processing to extract and analyze human behaviors manifested within conversational interactions and mainly within psychotherapy. Nikos holds an undergraduate degree from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) and an MSc from USC, both in Electrical Engineering, and has worked as a research intern at the Czech Technical University in Prague and at Microsoft Research. He enjoys spending his free time cycling and hiking.

Andrew Dawson

Bio:  Andrew Dawson is a doctoral student in the Mind and Society Center working with Dr. Daphna Oyserman. His work focuses on identity and culture, specifically how identity and culture affect information processing and judgement. Previously, he worked in Silicon Valley at Google and Guardant Health.

Stephan Steve Carney

Bio:  Stephan (Steve) Carney joined the USC Marshall School of Business as a PhD student in Marketing in Fall 2021. Steve researches the social consumer. Consumption decisions do not happen in a social vacuum; Steve is interested in how others impact our judgements and decisions for ourselves and in the marketplace. 

Previously, Steve served as the lab manager of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to academics, Steve worked in public accounting and technology consulting and holds a BS and MS in Marketing.

School: Sol Price School of Public Policy, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Department: Sol Price School of Public Policy, Center for Economic and Social Research

Role : Graduate student

Research Description: My research interests are broadly centered around social and economic inequality, and specifically the role of behavioral public policy in the institutionalization of poverty in the United States.

Website Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-scott/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Law and security, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Milad Kassaie

School: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Department: Psychology

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Stephan (Steve) Carney

School: Marshall School of Business

Department: Marketing

Research Description: Steve’s research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of consumer decision making and the factors that undermine consumers’ ability to make the best decisions for themselves and others.

Website Link:  https://www.stephancarney.com/

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Ellen Herschel

Department: Psychology Department, Brain and Creativity Institute

Research Description: Areas of interest include embodied cognition, creative improvisation, rhythm, synchrony, and music as they relate to neuroplasticity and cognition in childhood development, older adults, and disease populations.

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Aging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Aging.

Research Description: I study habits and behavior change.

Website Link:  https://www.asafmazar.com/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Silvia R da Costa

School: USC School of Pharmacy

Department: Office of Research

Role : Staff

Website Link:  https://research.usc.edu/

Applied Research to Topics: Diversity, equity and inclusion.

Research Application Interests: Diversity, equity and inclusion.

James Finley

School: Viterbi School of Engineering

Department: Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience Graduate Program

Role : Faculty

Research Description: My work seeks to understand how aging and neurological impairments such as stroke and Parkinson’s disease influence risk-sensitive decision-making during walking.

Website Link:  http://lcl.usc.edu/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Aging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

School: Sol Price School of Public Policy

Department: Department of Health Policy & Management

Research Description: I study health behaviors related to intoxicating substances as well as the policies that influence their supply, use, treatment, and harm reduction.

Website Link:  https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/rosalie-pacula/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Law and security.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Law and security, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Maja Mataric

Department: Computer Science, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center (RASC)

Role : Interim VP of Research

Research Description: Technology-supported behavior change, focusing on socially assistive robotics; experience with interventions in autism, anxiety, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and obesity, as well as healthy elderly and other user populations.

Website Link:  http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Aging, Behavior change interventions and nudging, behavior economics / nudge insights to our USC operations, around COVID-19, student wellness, and more, and welcome ideas.

Elizabeth Nell Hannan

Email id:  [email protected]

School: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Marshall School of Business

Department: Department of Neuroscience Department in Dornsife and Department of Finance and Business Economics in Marshall

Role : Undergraduate student

Applied Research to Topics: COVID-19

Thomas D. Lyon

School: Gould School of Law

Research Description: My goal is to identify the most productive means of questioning children about abuse and violence.

Website Link:  https://uscchildinterviewinglab.com/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare

Research Application Interests: COVID-19

Arianna Uhalde

Department: Marketing department, USC Athletics

Role : Faculty, Director of Research and Impact, USC Athletics

Website Link:  https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/arianna-uhalde

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Performance and identity.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

School: Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Department: Adulthood Mental Health and Wellness (AMHW) concentration

Research Description: I am currently researching with Dr. Wingert on working memory and problem solving, but I am also fascinated with health decisions and the protective factor of social relationships.

Website Link: maryannsamson.com

Applied Research to Topics: Working memory studies, therapeutic alliance in the doctor-physician relationship.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Department: Department of Psychology, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies

Research Description: My research focuses on improving the critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making capabilities of people (working individually or in groups).

Website Link: https://thejdmlab.com

Applied Research to Topics: COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging, Business and Policy.

Research Application Interests: COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Law and security, Behavior change interventions and nudging, Business and Policy.

Alex Segrè Cohen

Email id:   [email protected]

Research Description: Communications around emerging technologies and hazards, and how to improve the quality of decision-making within these contexts.

Applied Research to Topics: COVID-19, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Behavior change interventions, and nudging.

Research Application Interests: COVID-19, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions, and nudging.

Julie Zissimopoulos

Department: Department of Health Policy and Management, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Research Description: Individual and policy opportunities for healthy aging

Website Link:   https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/author/julie-zissimopoulos-ph-d/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Aging.

Research Application Interests: COVID-19, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Joanne Yoong 

  Role: Member

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School: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Marshall School of Business.

Department: Social Psychology

Research Description: What are habits, and why do people find it so difficult to change them?

Website Link:  https://dornsife.usc.edu/wendywood

Applied Research to Topics: Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Detlof von Winterfeldt 

Ofir turel .

Role : Scholar in Residence

Research Description: Technology, the brain, and society

Website Link:  https://oturel1.wixsite.com/ofirturel

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Law and security, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Neeraj Sood

Norbert schwarz.

Department: USC Dornsife – Psychology, Mind & Society Center, USC Marshall – Marketing

Research Description: I study the interplay of feeling and thinking in judgment and decision making, including public opinion, consumer behavior, and well-being.

Website Link:  https://dornsife.usc.edu/norbert-schwarz/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging, Political preferences

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

David Pynadath 

Daphna oyserman , shri narayanan , daniella meeker, mara mather .

School: Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Viterbi School of Engineering, Davis School of Gerontology.

Department: Leonard Davis School of Gerontology-Department of Psychology

Research Description: Affective neuroscience and aging.

Website Link:  https://gero.usc.edu/labs/matherlab/

Dan Klerman 

Andrea hollingshead , linda hagen, cary frydman , kristin diehl .

Research Description: I am interested in: 1) how consumers search for and use information when search costs are low, assortments are large, and recommendation tools may be available. 2) how people anticipate, experience, and remember events that unfold over time and during which technologies (e.g., camera phones) play a role.

Website Link:  https://www.kristindiehl.org/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Behavior change interventions, and nudging.

Kayla De la Haye 

School: Keck School of Medicine

Department: Department of Preventive Medicine

Research Description: Promote health and preventing disease by applying social network analysis and systems science to key public health issues.

Website Link:  https://www.kayladelahaye.net/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Morteza Dehghany 

Giorgio coricelli, tom y. chang .

Department: Finance and Business Economics

Research Description: Behavioral Finance and Economics

Website Link:  https://www.tomychang.com/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Leandro Carvalho 

  [email protected]

Peter Carnevale 

Juan carillo , jeremy burke , eva büchel .

Research Description: I focus on the psychological processes that shape consumer judgments, decisions and behaviors.

Website Link:  https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/eva-buechel

Research Application Interests: Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

Isabella Brocas 

Dan benjamin, antoine bechara , silvia barcellos, emma aguila .

Department: Schaeffer Center

Website Link: https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/emma-aguila/

Applied Research to Topics: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Aging, health disparities.

Gülden Űlkümen 

Research Description: Gulden Ulkumen’s research interests include the impact of uncertainty on decision making, and consumer financial decision making, specifically budgeting and savings decisions.

Website Link:  https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/gulden-ulkumen

Applied Research to Topics: Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Behavior change interventions, and nudging.

Research Application Interests: Personal health, well-being, healthcare, COVID-19, Personal consumption and finances, financial distress, poverty, Climate change, environment, and sustainability, Diversity, equity and inclusion, Behavior change interventions and nudging.

  Role: Co-PI

Arie Kapteyn

Jason doctor.

   [email protected]  

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This course introduces students to the field of Clinical Psychology and the competencies required within the scientist-practitioner model of Clinical Psychology.  These competencies will be developed through taught modules, an extended research project, and clinical placements.

The programme provides a balance of academic, research and clinical experiences throughout which reflects relevant and up to date psychological knowledge and skills and ensures that contemporary psychological practice and research is promoted. Trainees are expected to become critical consumers of  and to contribute to research, and the emerging knowledge base.  Students will have opportunities to participate in on-going research programmes within the University of Cambridge Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry and other departments .

Our approach to evidence-based therapies and holistic and rigorous psychological practice links directly to lifespan research and a sophisticated understanding of the complexity of factors associated with mental health and ill-health across the lifespan.

This course recognises the importance of societal and cultural factors with the expectation that students will develop an identity as “system leaders” who have a role to play in implementing policies grounded in psychologically informed evidence-based prevention for the entire population and tackling inequalities in mental health, wellbeing and access to high quality care. 

Its educational aims of the course are:

• to acquire theoretical knowledge specific and relevant to the field of Clinical Psychology;
• to give students with relevant experience at first-degree level the opportunity to carry out focused research in the discipline under close supervision; and to interpret research and its application to the practice of Clinical Psychology;
• to give students the opportunity to work in a mental health or mental health related setting to develop skills required for the practice of Clinical Psychology.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge and an introductory understanding of :

• psychological, and other relevant, theory and evidence, related to a range of client groups, presentations, psychological therapies, psychological assessment frameworks, and treatment and prevention approaches required for competent clinical practice and research;
• developing working alliances with clients, carers and/or services;
• psychological assessment;
• formulations based on psychological theories and knowledge;
• psychological interventions;
• how to evaluate practice  through outcome measurement, supervision, and other methodologies;
• communicating effectively with clients, referrers and others, orally and in writing;

a broad understanding of modern research techniques applicable to Clinical Psychology research

expertise in research methods, data analysis and statistics, and application of the methods to interpret the data collected during the research project;

originality in the application of knowledge, together with the practical understanding of how research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the field;

participation in scientific discourse through written material, oral and poster presentations.

Those who wish to progress to a PhD after completing an MPhil will be required to satisfy a potential supervisor, Head of Department and the Faculty Degree Committee that they have the skills and ability to achieve the higher degree.

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I advise you to check out our list of faculty research interests then use PsychInfo to look up faculty members and read abstracts of our work. That way you can become well informed about many of the exciting things going on in the department.

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