Department of Psychology
Research Labs
Students who are working in research labs can earn up to 4 units per quarter. Registering for unit credit means that the lab work will appear on your transcript and thus gives you a better way of tracking and reporting this volunteer effort (e.g., on applications to graduate or other professional programs). Three hours of lab time per week are required per unit. Freshmen and sophomores will be enrolled in PSYC 096 and juniors and seniors in PSYC 197. Please work with the lab manager/faculty member for enrollment in a lab each quarter. Please note that exceptions to the quarter (and total) unit caps are possible and should be discussed with your academic advisor.
ADVERSITY AND ADAPTATION LAB
PI: Professor Tuppett Yates
Developmental processes underlying positive developmental pathways among at-risk youth.
BRAIN GAME CENTER
PI: Professor Aaron Seitz
Specializing in human-based research in perception, cognition, learning, brain training, and more!
CHILDHOOD COGNITION LAB
PI: Professor Rebekah A. Richert
Cognitive development, social cognition, transfer of learning from fantasy and media, and religious concept development.
COGNITIVE AGILITY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN LAB
PI: Professor Rachel Wu
Developmental cognitive neuroscience research studies of how attention and learning interact from infancy to aging when finding and learning relevant information.
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF PERCEPTION, ATTENTION, & MEMORY LAB
PI: Professor Weiwei Zhang
Capacity and precision of visual perception, attention, and memory; Hierarchical Representations in visual memory; Feature-based attention; Cognitive modeling; ERPs.
COMPUTATIONAL COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SCIENCES LAB
PI: Professor Ian Ballard
We study the mechanisms that enable people to make adaptive decisions and pursue their goals using fMRI, behavior, computational modeling, and causal brain manipulations.
CULTURE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT LAB
PI: Professor Cecilia Cheung
How children’s environment shapes their motivation and achievement in school.
DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSITIONS LAB
PI: Professor Misaki Natsuaki
Emotional and behavioral development in adolescence, developmental psychopathology, and biological and contextual interaction, puberty.
DIMSDALE-ZUCKER MEMORY AND CONTEXT LAB
PI: Professor Halle Dimsdale-Zucker
Studying human memory and the ways in which context influences what we remember and how our memories are represented by the brain.
EMOTIONAL LIVES LAB
PI: Professor Tabea Springstein
We study individual differences in how people experience and manage their emotions in everyday life.
EMOTIONAL REGULATION LAB
PI: Professor Elizabeth Davis
Physiological and social correlates of emotion development and emotion regulation in childhood, how emotion regulation relates to positive (e.g., learning) and negative (e.g., psychopathology) outcomes.
GOEL LAB
PI: Professor Anubhuti Goel
Circuit mechanisms of cross-modal sensory perception and temporal interval learning.
KIDS INTERACTION AND NEURODEVELOPMENT LAB
PI: Professor Kalina Michalska
Brain bases underlying the development of emotion understanding.
LABORATORY OF AGING AND NEUROCOGNITIVE IMAGING
PI: Professor Ilana Bennett
Cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory; neurocognitive aging; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
LIFE EVENTS LAB
PI: Professor Kate Sweeny
How people give news of, prepare for, and respond to negative life events.
LIFESPAN PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE LABORATORY
P.I.: Professor Stephen Antonopolis
How personality and social structure constitute each other across people’s lives, with focuses on racism and socioeconomic conditions; studies theoretical and applied measurement, too.
PERCEPTION, ACTION, AND DEVELOPMENT LAB
PI: Professor John Franchak
Perception and development; how children use perceptual information to guide actions and social interactions; head-mounted eye-tracking methods to study visual constraints and learning, across development.
PERCEPTION AND LEARNING LAB
PI: Professor Aaron Seitz
Specializing in human-based research in perception, cognition, learning, brain training, and more!
POSITIVE ACTIVITIES AND WELL-BEING LAB (PAWLAB)
PI: Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky
Happiness and well-being. Positive interventions. Boosting gratitude, kindness, awe, and connection. Digital media use and well-being.
RAZAK LAB
PI: Professor Khaleel A. Razak
The development of sensory processing. The development of both sound localization and echolocation behaviors in the pallid bat.
SELF-REGULATION, CONTEXTS, and HEALTH LAB
PI: Professor Olivia Atherton
How self-regulation develops across the lifespan, the sociocultural factors that predict self-regulation development, and how sociocultural factors and self-regulation impact health behaviors and outcomes.
SENSORY LEARNING LAB
PI: Professor Aaron Seitz
Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.
SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE LAB
PI: Professor Brent Hughes
Neural and cognitive bases of social behavior, in particular how people see themselves and others, and how they are influenced by motivations and expectations.
SOCIAL & SPATIAL COGNITION LAB
PI: Professor Jimmy Calanchini
Social Cognition; attitude formation & change; stereotyping & prejudice; process modeling.
YOUTH HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT LAB
PI: Professor Aerika Loyd
Identity, positive youth development, and prevention research in minority adolescents and young adults.
ZAGHA LAB
PI: Professor Edward Zagha
Cellular and circuit mechanisms of sensory detection and impulse control.