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

Elizabeth Adkins-Regan

• Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
• Concentrations: Psychology: behavioral and evolutionary neuroscience
• Research Interests: hormonal, neuroendocrine and behavioral mechanisms responsible for the development and expression of animal social behavior, especially reproductive behavior; physiological and comparative 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

James Eric Cutting

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
• Research Interests: perception of motion, depth and layout; event perception; perception of cinema and pictures; structural and functional analyses or perceptual stimuli

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

Melissa Ferguson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology
• Research Interests: automatic attitudes; the interface of affect, knowledge accessibility and motivation; social hypothesis testing and decision-making

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: 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

Katherine Diane Kinzler

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development; social and personality psychology
• Research Interests: social and personal psychology, perception cognition and development

Barbara Marie Koslowski

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
• Research Interests: cognitive development; scientific reasoning; conceptual development; problem solving and reasoning

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

Harry Thomas Lawless

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
• Research Interests: improvements in sensory test methods applied to food analysis; effects of stimulus context on psychophysical judgments; studies of taste, smell and oral tactile perception

Neil Anthony Lewis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology

Barbara Catherine Lust

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
• Research Interests: language and mind, especially first language acquisition; linguistic theory of Universal Grammar; cognitive development

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

Khena Swallow

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Psychology: perception, cognition and development
• Research Interests: Perception, Cognition and Development

Felix Thoemmes

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

Vivian Zayas

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

Emily Zitek

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Psychology: social and personality psychology