Psychology

Field Description

Research facilities include: special rooms for research in problems of perception and cognition; a social-psychology laboratory equipped for experimental and observational studies; electrophysiological, histological, and chemical laboratories; surgery facilities; facilities for the maintenance and behavioral study of vertebrate and invertebrate laboratory animals; darkrooms and shops; an audiovisual studio equipped for the study of teaching; laboratory computers and interacting terminals with the capacity to control equipment in experiments and to do online processing and complex data analyses; and other specialized facilities, both on campus and at various off-campus locations.

Students develop an independent program of study in consultation with their Special Committee. The three primary members of the Special Committee must be chosen by the end of the first year; students are encouraged to select at least one member (not the chairperson) from a field other than psychology. The Director of Graduate Studies appoints a fourth member, whose function is to ensure that the student obtains adequate breadth of training.

The Special Committee oversees requirements that are established by the field. Current requirements include a first-year review and annual meetings of the Special Committee to review the student's progress; a research paper completed by the end of the first year and an oral report of the research presented to a meeting of students and faculty members; a one-year course in statistics and experimental design; at least ten hours a week of supervised teaching experience for at least two semesters; the Admission to Candidacy examination, which should be taken by the end of the third year (a Graduate School requirement); a written dissertation proposal, which must be accepted at a meeting of the Special Committee called for that purpose; and the doctoral dissertation itself with a final examination on the dissertation (Graduate School requirements).

Contact Information

Website: http://www.psych.cornell.edu/
Email: psychapp@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-3834

211 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Data and Statistics

Doctoral Program Statistics

Subject and Degrees

Psychology

Psychology (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)

Concentrations by Subject

Psychology

behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
perception, cognition and development
social and personality psychology

Faculty

Adam Keith Anderson

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development

Vanessa Kimberly Bohns

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: personality and social psychology

Charles Brainerd

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: cognitive development; social and personality development; cognitive neuroscience; memory and cognitive development; mathematical modeling; psychology and law

Daniel Casasanto

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development

Marianella Casasola

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: infant cognitive development and early word learning; interaction between cognition and early language learning

Stephen John Ceci

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: theories of intelligence; cognitive development; children and the law; children's testimonial competence

Morten H Christiansen

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: language of acquisition and processing; neural network models of language and statistical learning; neurophysiological (ERP) measures of statistical learning; language evolution

Thomas A. Cleland

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: olfactory perception as a complex system; coordinating behavioral; physiological, pharmacological, and computational studies of sensory sampling; learning and memory; biological neural networks

Timothy John Devoogd

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: neural basis of female bird song discrimination; interplay between the hippocampus and other brain areas in spatial memory; behavior and brain evolution

Shimon Edelman

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: human and machine cognition; visual recognition; natural language processing

David James Field

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: theories and models of sensory coding and visual processing; visual perception; relations between the structure of the natural environment and the representation of that environment by sensory systems

Thomas Dashiff Gilovich

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: everyday judgment and decision making; critical thinking and belief; egocentrism, optimism, pessimism, satisfaction and regret; behavioral economics; gambling

Michael H. Goldstein

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience; perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: human experimental psychology

Tove Helland Hammer

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: work motivation; job attitudes; work performance; worker participation in management; employee stock ownership; leadership; organizational effectiveness; trade union effectiveness and leadership

Cynthia Hazan

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: development and function of emotional bonds between adult sexual/romantic partners; human mating from an attachment theory and evolutionary perspective

Amy R. Krosch

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology

Carol Lynne Krumhansl

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: human perception and cognition; cognitive processes in music perception and memory, application of mathematical models to psychological data; multidimensional scaling and clustering

Tamar Kushnir

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: perception, cognition and development

David A Levitsky

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: effects of nutrition on behavior; control of food intake and body weight; obesity; nutrition and health

Neil Anthony Lewis

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology

Christiane Linster

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: neural basis of sensory information processing

Shaun B. Nichols

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: Social & Personality

Laura Niemi

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology

Alexander Ophir

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience

David A. Pizarro

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: moral judgment; moral intuitions (especially concerning moral responsibility, and the permissibility or impermissibility of certain acts); biases that affect moral judgment

Dennis Thomas Regan

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: experimental social psychology, especially causal attribution and interpersonal influence; evolutionary theory and social behavior

Valerie Reyna

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
Research Interests: cognitive development; social and personality development; memory; judgment; and decision making

Harry G. Segal

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
Research Interests: personality and social development

David M. Smith

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: learning and memory; context processing; episodic memory; spatial navigation; attention

Robert J. Sternberg

Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development

Barbara Jean Strupp

Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
Research Interests: determining the nature and underlying neural basis of developmental cognitive disorders; prenatal cocaine exposure; early lead exposure; transgenic models of developmental disorders

Khena Swallow