
Graduate Schools
USA - The Pennsylvania State UniversityUSA- Boston College
The Department of Psychology at Boston College has a vibrant group of emotion researchers in several different disciplines. Our graduate program has three research concentrations: Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience (CABN), with concentrated study the neural and cognitive processes that underlie motivation, learning and memory, emotion, language, and perception; Social and Cultural Psychology (SCP) with concentrated study of social and cultural processes, with an emphasis on the role that emotion plays in each; and Developmental Psychology (DP), with a focus on studying social, emotional, and cognitive development across the life span. Our department also has an interdisciplinary training program on Emotion (for details, see http://tinymce.moxiecode.cp/mce_temp_url and http://tinymce.moxiecode.cp/mce_temp_url ). Faculty in the Emotion Training Program include:
Lisa Feldman Barrett: Dr. Barrett's research investigates the psychological and neurobiological processes involved in generating the experience of emotion. In particular, she is interested in the role of affective processing and conceptual knowledge (including language) for emotion in the experience of emotion.
Elizabeth Kensinger: Dr. Kensinger's research combines behavioral and brain imaging techniques to understand the processes used to remember information with emotional importance. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how emotion affects the subjective vividness and accuracy of memory. She also is interested in identifying how emotion's influence on memory changes across the adult lifespan.
James Russell: Dr. Russell's research deals with the fundamental question of how emotions can be described and then assessed. Some specific ideas pursued are a circumplex model of emotion, a prototype theory of emotion concepts, which leads to the idea that specific emotions are understood in terms of scripts, a defence of the traditional view that displeasure is the opposite of pleasure, a skeptical review of the traditional view that basic emotions are universally and easily recognized from facial expressions. More recently, the question has arisen of how these various ideas fit together within a larger framework. An analysis is being developed called "the psychological construction of emotion."
Maya Tamir: Dr. Tamir's research integrates theories in emotion and social cognition to explore the nature and functional basis of emotion regulation. Her research explores whether and how individuals learn about the cognitive and behavioral implications of their affective states. She is also interested in the ways in which the implications of emotions and their link to self-regulation vary as a function of individual differences.
Other faculty in our department study related topics of interest, including Karen Rosen, (attachment and social development), Jon Horvitz (the role of brain dopamine activity in learning and motivation), Michael Numan (the neurobiology of mammalian maternal behavior), and Scott Slotnick (the nature of visual memory and visual awareness).USA - Virginia Tech
Located in scenic Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech's Developmental and Biological Psychology
program is dedicated to the training of tomorrow's research
psychologists. Our program integrates developmental lifespan and
biological perspectives on issues important to understanding human
behavior, ranging from gene action to complex social relationships. We
conduct research with infants, toddlers, school age children,
adolescents, adults, and the elderly. We welcome applications from
students who appreciate the exciting and important implications of such
research for the future of human psychological science. Our faculty
members are:
Martha Ann Bell (infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school age)
"Frontal lobe development from both behavioral and electrophysiological viewpoints
"Developmental change in brain-behavior relations in memory, inhibitory control, emotion regulation, and attention
Kirby Deater-Deckard (preschoolers, school age, preadolescents)
"Adaptive and maladaptive child and adolescent social-emotional and cognitive development
"Gene-environment processes; behavioral genetics
"Parenting; parent-child relationships
Julie Dunsmore (preschoolers, school age, preadolescents)
"Parents' emotional communication, especially in regard to positive emotions
"Parents' beliefs about children's emotions across culture
"Children's social cognition, affective social competence, and prosocial behavior
Bruce Friedman (adults)
"Psychophysiology of emotion and personality
"Relationships between anxiety and cardiovascular activity
"Autonomic components of depression and hostility
Jungmeen Kim (preadolescents, adolescents, adults, elderly)
"Social and personality development; dynamic relationships among personality
"social relationships, relationship stress, and psychological well-being across the life span
"Risk and resilience in development; family and peer relations as risk and protective factors
Robin Panneton (infants)
"Perception of speech during infancy, including different aspects of language (phonemes, words, accents) and perception of emotion in voices
"Psychophysiology of infant attention to speech
"Multimodal influences on early language learning
USA- University of Virginia
Emotion is one of the most intensively studied topics in the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia. Faculty members in several areas conduct collaborative research and teach courses related to the emotions, including:
Social Area:
Jerry Clore:
Research related to emotion: The connection between emotion and cognition. Our work focuses on the whole cycle of how conscious and unconscious perception and cognition trigger emotion, and how such self-produced moods and emotions then inform judgments, decisions, memory, and cognitive processing.
Courses with emotion content: Seminar on Emotion and Cognition
Jonathan Haidt:
Research related to emotion: The moral emotions, including moral elevation, moral disgust, awe, admiration, and gratitude. The role of emotions in guiding moral judgment. The psychophysiology of the moral emotions, particularly the role of oxytocin and the vagus nerve.
Courses with emotion content: Morality and the moral emotions; cultural psychology; positive psychology
Shige Oishi:
Research related to emotion: culture, personality, and emotion.
Courses with emotion content: "subjective well-being," "culture and personality"
Timothy Wilson:
Research related to emotion: Affective forecasting: The nature and accuracy of people's predictions about their future affective states. Affective adaptation: The processes by which affective reactions attenuate over time.
Courses with emotion content: Self-knowledge and the adaptive unconscious. This course is about unconscious processing and how people come to know themselves. Am important component of both questions is emotional processes; e.g., the question of whether emotions can be unconscious, and how people know their own emotional states.
Clinical Area:
James Coan:
Research related to emotion: Neural bases of emotional expression, experience and regulation. Neural bases of the social regulation of emotion. Behavior coding, electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and peripheral psychophysiology.
Courses with emotion content: Affective Neuroscience
Bethany Teachman:
Research related to emotion: Fear and anxiety disorders, including cognitive biases during emotion dysregulation, development of anxiety problems, and change over treatment; Implicit affective associations and their relationship to psychopathology; Intersection of disgust and fear in pathological anxiety
Courses with emotion content: Fear and Anxiety seminar; Abnormal Psychology; Experimental Psychopathology (graduate class in clinical psychology); Intervention (graduate class in clinical psychology)
For more information please see:
UK- Univeristy of Portsmouth
USA- University of California- Davis
(Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Neuroscience. Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1977)
Neurobiology of memory and emotion; amygdala function
http://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/content/Labs/Beer/
(Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002)
Self, emotion, social functioning, social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Capitanio/
(Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1982)
Primate social relationships and personality, psychoneuroimmunology Rand Conger
http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/rconger/rconger.html
(Professor, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1976)
Adolescent development, depression, family processes
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Emmons/
(Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1986)
Positive psychology, personality and religion, goals and motivation, gratitude and well-being
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Lagattuta/
(Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1999)
Children's knowledge about thinking and emotion; theory of mind
(Professor, M.D., UC Davis, School of Medicine, 1982)
Emotion-cognition interactions, emotional memory, emotional disorders
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Mendoza/
(Research Psychologist, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978)
Primate social relationships and personality, behavioral neuroendocrinology
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/robins/
(Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995)
Self-conscious emotions; self-evaluative processes; personality
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Shaver/
(Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970)
Close relationships, attachment theory, emotion
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Thompson/
(Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan 1981)Early social and personality development; relational influences on emotion understanding, emotional regulation, and self-understanding
Canada- University of British Columbia