The Department of Psychology is one of the largest in Brooklyn College with 26 full-time faculty, more than 800 undergraduate majors, and over 150 graduate students. Currently our faculty hold in excess of four million dollars in research grants and contracts.


 

 

Faculty


Israel Abramov, Ph.D.
Color vision; spatial and temporal resolution; aging and vision
4305 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6011
iabramov@gc.cuny.edu

Karen Ackroff, Ph.D.
Physiology of feeding; obesity; food preferences
4108 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6004
kackroff@gc.cuny.edu

Elisabeth Brauner, Dr. rer. nat.
Industrial and organizational psychology, groups research, transactive memory and transactive knowledge, communication
5608 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6034
EBrauner@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Benzion Chanowitz, Ph.D.
Organizational psychology; social psychology
4414 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6030
benzionc@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Andrew Delamater, Ph.D.
Associative learning; Pavlovian mechanisms
Office: TBA
(718) 951-5000 ext.6026
andrewd@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Mathew Erdelyi, Ph.D.
Psychodynamic aspects of cognition
4307 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6023
iyledre@patmedia.net

Frank Grasso, Ph.D.
BioMimetic & Cognitive Robotics, Computational Neuroscience, Animal Behavior, Marine Chemical Senses & Olfaction
4113b James (access through 4111 James)
(718) 951-5966
fgrasso@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Louise Hainline, Ph.D.
Sensory/perceptual development in infants; eye movements
(718) 951-5610
Louiseh@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Curtis D. Hardin, Ph.D.
Social Cognition, social identification, the self-concept, prejudice and stereotyping, language, memory, epistemology
5113 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6018
cdhardin@brooklyn.cuny.edu

R. Glen Hass, Ph.D.
Evolutionary psychology; mate selection; attitudinal ambivalence
5113 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.4834
ghass@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Aaron Kozbelt, Ph.D.
Cognitive studies of creativity, thinking, & expertise in visual arts
4201 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6009
AaronK@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Gregory A. Kuhlman, Ph.D.
Director, Personal Counseling
0203 James Hall
(718) 951-5174 (Voice)
(718) 951-4481 (FAX)
Kuhlman@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Daniel D. Kurylo, Ph.D.
Integration of neural populations in cognitive function; psychological dysfunction in neuro-degenerative disease
4407 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6022
dkurylo@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Ching-Tse Lee, Ph.D.
Biofeedback
4414 James Hall
(718) 951-5986
clee@gc.cuny.edu

Donald M. Levine, Ph.D.
Organizational behavior; psychodynamics
5409 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6031
email: n/a

Laraine McDonough, Ph.D.
Cognitive Development
4613 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6027
LaraineM@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Eli Osman, Ph.D.
Mechanisms of hypnosis, psychotherapy, and perception
4113 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6007
eosman@gc.cuny.edu

David Owen, Ph.D.
Abnormal psychology. Human behavior genetics. Psychological testing
5313 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6010
dowen@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Margaret Ellen Pipe , Ph.D.
Child eyewitness testimony; Forensic psychology; Memory and cognition
3202 James Hall
(718) 951-5601
mepipe@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Laura Rabin, Ph.D.
Clinical neuropsychology; cognitive changes associated with the early stages of dementia; ecological validity of neuropsychological instruments; cognitive remediation
5303 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6012
lrabin@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Arthur Reber, Ph.D.
Cognitive foundations of complex learning. Implicit learning. Philosophical psychology. Lexicograph.
4111 James Hall
(718) 951-5975
areber@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Nancy Romer, Ph.D.
Social and personality development. Early experiences predicting civic, political and service involvement in adulthood. Developing programs linking college resources to community needs.
5405 James Hall
(718) 951-5015
nromer@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Anthony Sclafani, Ph.D.
The biopsychology of appetite, food preferences, and obesity in humans and laboratory animals. Current work is focusing on the role of learning in food preferences.
4108 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6001
asclafani@gc.cuny.edu

Alvin Snadowsky, Ph.D.
Leadership, group structure, methodology in human relations.
5115B James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6014
alvins@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Deborah J. Walder, Ph.D.
Neurodevelopment of psychopathology, role of neurohormones, stress, sex differences, cognitive/neuropsychological functioning, and early risk factors in the development of psychopathology.
5303C James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6013
dwalder@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Peter Weston, Ph.D.
Social structure and personality dynamics. Personality theory. Human motivation. Self psychology. Prejudice and racism. Academic advisement.
5115 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6015
pweston@brooklyn.cuny.edu

 

Retired Faculty


Robert Brannon, Ph.D.
Sex objectification; male role issues
5309 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6017
RBrannon@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Dorothea Halpert, Ph.D.
Memory; language development
5602 James Hall
(718) 951-5930
dhalpert@email.gc.cuny.edu

Neil A. Macmillan, Ph.D.
Psychophysics, particularly signal detection theory, and its application to speech perception, hearing, and other perceptual and cognitive processes
nmacmillan@gc.cuny.edu

Ian McMahan, Ph.D.
Achievement motivation and achievement attributions. Development of self-concept and self-esteem.
5602 James Hall
(718) 951-5000 ext.6033
imcmahan@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Don L. Scarborough, Ph.D.
Cognitive Science. Perception. Memory. Language. Music perception. Artificial Intelligence. Neural networks.
4303 James Hall
(718) 951-5601
dscarborough@brooklyn.cuny.edu