Lera Boroditsky
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University, 2001. Relationships between mind, world and language. Meaning and use. Acquisition of language and meaning. Metaphoric structuring, conceptual development, and conceptual change. Interrelationships between language, cognition, and perception. Cross-linguistic similarities and differences in thought.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~lera/

Herbert H. Clark
Professor
Experimental Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, 1966. Psycholinguistics. Study of cognitive and social processes in language use. Special interest in speaking, understanding, and memory in conversation. Study of word meaning and what speakers mean in saying what they say. Study of discourse.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~herb/

Carol S. Dweck
Professor
Social and Developmental Psychology, Yale University, 1972. My
work bridges developmental psychology, social psychology, and personality psychology, and examines the self-conceptions people use to structure the self and guide their behavior. My research looks at the origins of these self-conceptions, their role in motivation and self-regulation, and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.
http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/dweck.shtml

Ian Gotlib
Professor
Dr. Ian H. Gotlib received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Waterloo (in Canada) and is currently Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory. Dr. Gotlib is very active in clinical research. In general, in his research Dr. Gotlib examines information-processing approaches to the study of the cognitive functioning of depressed children, adolescents, and adults, the effects of depression on marital and family functioning, and the emotional and behavioral functioning of children of depressed mothers. Two major projects that are currently underway in the laboratory involve an examination of the mechanisms of transmission of risk factors for depression and anxiety from mothers to daughters, and the identification and assessment of depressed patients who are characterized by strong negative biases in their cognitive functioning.
http://www-med.stanford.edu/sbrc/faculty/sbrc_fac_list/gotlib.html

Kalanit Grill-Spector
Assistant Professor
Kalanit Grill-Spector earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2000, and is now Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Stanford University. Her main research interests are high-level vision, object face recognition, learning categories and concepts. She studies the neural basis of visual cognition utilizing functional imaging (fMRI), computational techniques and behavioral methods to investigate visual object recognition and other high-level visual processes. She is interested in investigating the underlying representations and cortical mechanisms that subserve recognition, and the relation between these neural processes, and our visual perception of the world. She regularly guest lectures for Psychology One this year on the topic of sensation and perception.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~kalanit/

Hazel Markus
Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences
Hazel Rose Markus received her B.A. degree from California State University at San Diego and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975. She has been a professor of Psychology at Stanford University since 1994 and prior to that was a faculty member in the department of psychology at the University of Michigan. She was also a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Her research is concerned with the sociocultural shaping of the mind and self. She is specifically concerned with how gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, cohort, region or country of national origin may influence thought and feeling, particularly self-relevant thought and feeling. Her recent studies of Japanese and American college students have focused on similarities and differences in the nature of self-concept and in the functioning of self-esteem. She was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 1994 and was recently named the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She regularly guest lectures for Psychology One on Cultural Psychology.
http://markus.socialpsychology.org/

Lee Ross
Professor
Lee D. Ross is a professor of social psychology at Stanford University, who has studied attribution theory, attributional biases, decision making and conflict resolution. Studying with Stanley Schachter, he earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at Columbia University in 1969. He first coined the term "fundamental attribution error" to explain the effects of a study by Edward E. Jones and Victor Harris, in which people were overly ready to see another person's behavior as revealing a particular attitude even though the person's behavior was a response to situational demands. With Robert Vallone and Mark Lepper he authored the first study to describe the hostile media effect. He has also collaborated with Richard Nisbett in books on human judgment (1980) and the relation between social situations and personality (1991).

http://www-psych.stanford.edu/faculty/ross.html

Robert Sapolsky
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Robert Sapolsky is Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, receipient of the MacArthur "Genius Award", and the 1992 Young Investigator of the Year Award by the Society for Neuroscience. He is generally and rightly regarded as one of the best teachers at Stanford and has won most of the awards one can be given for teaching and research. He's written several books, including the must read "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers". Robert Sapolsky's laboratory focuses on three issues: a) how a neuron dies during aging or following various neurological insults; b) how such neuron death can be accelerated by stress; c) the design of gene therapy strategies to protect endangered neurons from neurological disease. For three months each year, Professor Sapolsky studies wild baboons in the Serengeti of East Africa. He examines what a baboon's dominance rank, social behavior, and personality have to do with patterns of stress-related diseases. Robert Sapolsky regularly guest lectures for Psych One on the biological and psychological reactions of stress.
http://sbrc.stanford.edu/faculty/sbrc_fac_list/sapolsky.html

Claude Steele
Lucy Stern Professor in the Social Sciences
Lucy Stern Professor of Psychology, joined the Stanford faculty in 1991; previously, he served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, University of Washington, and University of Utah. Professor Steele's research interests are how people cope with self-image threats; how group stereotypes can influence intellectual performance; and addictive behaviors. Professor Steele has served as president of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, president of the Western Psychological Association, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society. Professor Steele is a recipient of numerous awards, among which are the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, the Distinguished Scientific Career Awards from both the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and was elected last spring to the National Academy of Sciences.
http://psychology.stanford.edu/~steele/

Anthony D. Wagner
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford Univeristy, 1997. Cognitive neuroscience of memory and cognitive/executive control in young and older adults. Research interests include encoding and retrieval mechanisms; interactions between declarative, nondeclarative, and working memory; forms of cognitive control; neurocognitive aging; functional organization of prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobe, assessed by functional MRI, MEG/ERP, and transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Jeffrey Wine
Professor
Ph.D. Physiological Psychology, University. of California Los Angeles, 1971. The goal is to understand how a defective ion channel leads to the human genetic disease cystic fibrosis. Studies of ion channels and ion transport involved in gland fluid transport. Methods include SSCP mutation detection and DNA sequencing, protein analysis, patch-clamp recording, ion-selective microelectrodes, electrophysiological analyses of transmembrane ion flows, isotopic methods, DIC (Nomarkski) and fluorescence microscopy, optical methods for analysis of fluid secretion by cultured human cells and from intact human tissues obtained after surgery.
http://www.stanford.edu/~wine/