Michael Bailey
Professor
Research Interest(s): Sexual orientation and evolutionary psychology
Phone number: 847-491-7429
Office Location: Swift 303B
jm-bailey@northwestern.edu
Core Faculty
Mark Beeman
Professor
Research Interest(s): Brain bases of language; creative thinking
Phone number: 847-491-4617
Office Location: Cresap 104
mbeeman@northwestern.edu
Galen Bodenhausen
Professor
Research Interest(s): Attitudes and social cognition; diversity
Phone number: 847-467-3887
Office Location: Swift 204
galen@northwestern.edu
Sara Broaders
Director of Undergraduate Studies; Professor of Instruction
Research Interest(s): Gesture in cognition and communication
Phone number: 847-491-3652
Office Location: Swift 243
s-broaders@northwestern.edu
Edith Chen
Professor
Research Interest(s): Health psychology; socioeconomic status and health
Phone number: 847-467-0366
Office Location: Swift 104A
edith.chen@northwestern.edu
Mesmin Destin
Professor
Research Interest(s): Socioeconomic status; educational motivation
Phone number: 847-467-2824
Office Location: Annenberg 203
m-destin@northwestern.edu
Renee Engeln
Professor of Instruction
Research Interest(s): Objectification theory, body image, media
Office Location: Swift 304
rengeln@northwestern.edu
Eli Finkel
Professor
Research Interest(s): (1) Interpersonal attraction, (2) conflict resolution, (3) American politics
Phone number: 847-491-3212
Office Location: Swift 116
finkel@northwestern.edu
Steven Franconeri
Professor
Research Interest(s): Visual Cognition; Data Visualization; Visuospatial Thinking in STEM (Science, Technology, Education, & Math); Graph Comprehension; Visual Communication; Effective communication of analyses and evidence.
Phone number: 847-467-1259
Office Location: Swift 317
franconeri@northwestern.edu
Wendi Gardner
Associate Professor
Research Interest(s): The social self; belonging; emotion
Phone number: 847-491-4972
Office Location: Swift 203
wgardner@northwestern.edu
Dedre Gentner
Professor
Research Interest(s): Analogical processing, language and learning
Phone number: 847-467-1272
Office Location: Swift 213
gentner@northwestern.edu
Benjamin Gorvine
Charles Deering McCormick Distinguished Professor of Instruction; Associate Chair; Lead Adviser
Research Interest(s): Pedagogy practices for psychology and statistics; fathers; children’s social development
Phone number: 847-467-1839
Office Location: Swift 306
b-gorvine@northwestern.edu
Marcia Grabowecky
Research Associate Professor
Research Interest(s): Visual perception and attention
Phone number: 847-467-3044
Office Location: Cresap 306
grabowecky@northwestern.edu
Sid Horton
Associate Professor; Director of Cognitive Psychology
Research Interest(s): Psycholinguistics; Spoken discourse and aging
Phone number: 847-467-1293
Office Location: Swift 217
whorton@northwestern.edu
Katie Insel
Assistant Professor
Research Interest(s): Adolescent brain development, learning, motivation, decision-making
katie.insel@northwestern.edu
Michael Kraus
Professor
Research Interest(s): Societal inequality (race, class, gender, power); Emotion (empathy, pro-social emotions, psychophysiology); Self (authenticity, dissonance, culture)
michael.kraus@northwestern.edu
Alissa Levy Chung
Associate Professor of Instruction; Associate Director of Clinical Training
Research Interest(s): Intergenerational transmission of parenting; the role of early experience in the development of psychopathology
Phone number: 847-491-5647
Office Location: Swift 122
alissa.chung@northwestern.edu
Dan McAdams
Professor
Research Interest(s): Adult personality, life stories, culture
Phone number: 224-216-7704
Office Location: Annenberg Hall 209
dmca@northwestern.edu
Almaz Mesghina
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Research Interest(s): performance pressure; learning; stress; STEM; emotion regulation
Office Location: Swift 120
mesghina@northwestern.edu
Greg Miller
Professor
Research Interest(s): Health psychology; mechanisms linking stress and health
Phone number: 847-467-5755
Office Location: Swift 104B
greg.miller@northwestern.edu
Vijay Mittal
Professor; Department Chair
Research Interest(s): Schizophrenia; prodrome; early psychosis; adolescence; brain and hormone development; motor function; emotion; cognition
Phone number: 847-467-3880
Office Location: Swift 242
vijay.mittal@northwestern.edu
Daniel Molden
Professor; Director of Social Psychology; Honors Program Coordinator
Research Interest(s): The role of motivation in social cognition
Phone number: 847-491-7710
Office Location: Swift 202
molden@northwestern.edu
Dan Mroczek
Professor; Director of Personality, Development and Health
Research Interest(s): Lifespan personality development; influence of personality
Phone number: 847-467-0915
Office Location: Swift 307
daniel.mroczek@northwestern.edu
Robin Nusslock
Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Psychology , Director of Clinical Training
Research Interest(s): Affective & clinical neuroscience; mood and anxiety disorders
Phone number: 847-467-4148
Office Location: Swift 301
nusslock@northwestern.edu
Ken Paller
Professor
Research Interest(s): Human memory, other aspects of cognition, and sleep
Phone number: 847-467-3370
Office Location: Cresap 210
kap@northwestern.edu
Ginger Pennington
Associate Professor of Instruction
Research Interest(s): Human motivation and consumer psychology
Phone number: 847-467-3041
Office Location: Swift 311
ginger.pennington@northwestern.edu
Sylvia Perry
Associate Professor
Research Interest(s): Stereotyping and prejudice; intergroup relations; social cognition
Office Location: Swift 227
sylvia.perry@northwestern.edu
David Rapp
Walter Dill Scott Professor
Research Interest(s): Reading comprehension; learning and memory
Phone number: 847-467-1871
Office Location: Annenberg 220
rapp@northwestern.edu
Paul Reber
Professor; Director of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Research Interest(s): Learning & memory systems of the brain; fMRI
Phone number: 847-467-1624
Office Location: Cresap 308
preber@northwestern.edu
William Revelle
Professor
Research Interest(s): Personality measurement, theory and research
Phone number: 847-491-7700
Office Location: Swift 315
revelle@northwestern.edu
Lance Rips
Professor
Research Interest(s): Reasoning, concepts, math, and memory
Phone number: 847-491-5947
Office Location: Swift 314
rips@northwestern.edu
David Smith
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Research Interest(s): Assessment and evaluation; decision making
Phone number: 847-491-4669
Office Location: Swift 303C
hdsmith@northwestern.edu
Satoru Suzuki
Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Research Interest(s): Vision; cross-modal interactions; awareness
Phone number: 847-467-1271
Office Location: Cresap 303
satoru@northwestern.edu
Jennifer Tackett
Professor
Research Interest(s): Externalizing and disinhibitory psychopathology in youth; genetic and hormonal influences on externalizing problems; youth personality; gender and racial/ethnic disparities in externalizing problems
Phone number: 847-467-3313
Office Location: Swift 312
jennifer.tackett@northwestern.edu
David Uttal
Professor
Research Interest(s): Cognitive development; space; symbols
Phone number: 847-467-1925
Office Location: Swift 303A
duttal@northwestern.edu
Sandra Waxman
Professor
Research Interest(s): Language and conceptual development in infants and children; Cognitive development across languages and cultures
Phone number: 847-467-2293
Office Location: Swift 211
s-waxman@northwestern.edu
Richard Zinbarg
Professor; Director of Clinical Psychology
Research Interest(s): Anxiety and its treatment; measurement theory
Phone number: 847-467-2290
Office Location: Swift 302
rzinbarg@northwestern.edu